'Many thanks for your letter, and I've been looking at the Medicine Wheel. Brief, & ignorant, responses...
I'm way out of my depth on all of this but what I saw in your diagram (look at the symbol / ideogram at the centre point of the wheel) is an 8-term system rather than a tetrad (4-term system of order). The 8-term is the system of individuality. (Within your central ideogram is a 9th.term which, according to some authorities, constitutes the 9-term system of the ennegram). The interesting points in multi-term systems are not the 4 (or 8) prime points / nodes but the relationships between the points (or where they touch).
The published versions of Systematics go up to a 12-term system, which is necessary to account for a society ("The Ideal Society") but I have seen a diagram of a 24-term system of Mr. B's with description names of qualities at the intersection / meeting points between the prime terms. Very complex and far beyond me.
So, I think you're on to something very powerful.
Stones / writing are not the only ways of transmitting information over time (cf. Mr. Gurdjieff's "legominisms"): dance & music must be carriers but "translation" is the difficult part. I'm not sure to what degree the mind helps us in this. The powerful fact of Mr. G's Movements is that, by enacting the postures moving through time, one's state changes; the change of state enables the perception of the dance's "meaning" to become more apparent. With music, playing music somehow IS the music. You won't find much of this in the textbooks, although it is simply experienced. Guitar Craft courses are doorways to the source of music, direct, experiential, non-academic.'
Forgive the paucity of my understanding, but - good luck!'
Guestbook visitors might be interested in visiting John's site.
Meanwhile, my equipment is fired up but not 100%. Any Club member who would like to look at the photo on the back of "The Roar Of P4" will see my rig as it it presently displayed in the same location. Lotsa flashing lights and bits of wire.
19.06 Pat is in the garage with Bill, trying out a few ideas with digital editing of drums. Trey is in the studio continuing to set up hi sounds. I've had a couple of hours reconfiguring my set up with a pair of GP100s. For all the ProjeKcts I used the VG8. Right now, to see where it goes, I'm using the analogue side of my guitar. The GP100s began life in Crimson in Japan, September 1995, on the "Live In Japan" video & DVD. It was a bold step to use two new pieces of equipment on a filmed / recorded show, and possibly a step too far. But the programmes developed over the next 2 years and for this new situation I've hit default and am beginning again.
Claude is back with Branford. Delight. Wonderment.
"A lie divorces who we are from what we are."
