Arthur M. Young: The Reflexive Universe (1981) - Documentary video by Arthur Bloch

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  • A 56-minute documentary about the life and work of Arthur Young. Contains rare early helicopter footage, interviews with Young and his associates, an illustrated narrative introduction to the Theory of Process and much wit and wisdom.
    Producer/director: Arthur Bloch
    Associate producer/camera: Michael Shedlin
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  • @David-xk8hb
    @David-xk8hb 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    A really wonderful documentary that opened my mind as to how Nature involutes (constraints, structure, ego) in order to evolute (freedom, growth, egolessness). The first part of the process is like building a broad and solid foundation, and the second part of the process is like building the tower that rests upon that foundation. I appreciate what Arthur said about the difficulty in reconciling the teachings of Eastern philosophy, and in particular Buddhism, regarding non-selfhood and egolessness. That we're not really trying to destroy the ego, as some mistakenly understand, but rather eliminate the ego as a compulsive, habitual, unconscious trait. In short, relegating ego to its rightful place as servant instead of master - using the ego instead of being used by the ego, which requires radical presence, attention, and awareness.

    • @c.u.denizen8159
      @c.u.denizen8159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i.e., letting go of keeping a grip on things/self-identification,...or just seeing the ego as 'transparent' :>))

    • @goodsirknight
      @goodsirknight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is one of the greatest comments I've ever read on TH-cam

    • @goldenpeanuts9
      @goldenpeanuts9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      C.U. Denizen , well said. Letting go of keeping a grip. Freedom in detachment. :)

    • @Thefunksoulbro
      @Thefunksoulbro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He would have been quite someone to meet 😄

    • @graeme4074
      @graeme4074 ปีที่แล้ว

      When you consider the pandemic and the restrictions we were all under, you can see it is just nature involuting itself into constraint/restriction again for the millionth time, and then allowing for the ending of that constraint and the freedom that offers being nature envolving itself again. for the millionth time too.

  • @dennisrowan1704
    @dennisrowan1704 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I met Arthur Young in 1981. He was a beautiful and brilliant man. He was very patient and kind and made an indelible impression on me. True humility is the crown of wisdom.

  • @stvbrsn
    @stvbrsn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have absolutely no idea why, but reverb-heavy saxophone arpeggios make excellent accompaniment to stock footage of early helicopters.

  • @KazimirArdekanian
    @KazimirArdekanian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He was a pragmatic, perseverant, and free man. Also, Dr. Jeffry Mishlove's monologue about him and his interviews with Arthur Young are very profound. Thank you for posting this valuable resource.

  • @natureszodiac
    @natureszodiac ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This documentary is wonderful. I love Arthur M. Young. His ideas continue to educate me every time I pick up one of his books. Thank you!

  • @Verokomo
    @Verokomo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Excellent documentary. :) And great channel too! Thanks!

  • @PromoMIAR
    @PromoMIAR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Awesome Man. Awesome Theory. Almost Divine.

  • @PeterFritzWalter
    @PeterFritzWalter 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thanks, I learnt something important. Will check out his books. Much wisdom about life while he is a thoroughly competent scientist. Not many scientists reach that level of insight about the dimension of life that can't be measured and that is therefore not approached by science.

  • @SUNNYRHOADES9
    @SUNNYRHOADES9 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A Great Scientist -Thank you for posting this , smiles from Canada.

  • @Deliquescentinsight
    @Deliquescentinsight 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This man really had hold of something genuinely profound

  • @HeadintheBox
    @HeadintheBox 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks.

  • @stvbrsn
    @stvbrsn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    In terms of integration of (seemingly disparate) ideas, Young might well be the most brilliant person ever to have lived. In my opinion, of course.

  • @goldenpeanuts9
    @goldenpeanuts9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “It is the erosion that science had made in our moral fiber that I’m trying to combat”
    I Love You Arthur💚☝️🌊

    • @Deliquescentinsight
      @Deliquescentinsight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We can see how far this erosion has eaten into us with today's fear & alarm at a low threat organism.

    • @goldenpeanuts9
      @goldenpeanuts9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Deliquescentinsight , mind blowing isn’t it

  • @HueyTheDoctor
    @HueyTheDoctor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Arthur was amazing. His insights are invaluable.

    • @Deliquescentinsight
      @Deliquescentinsight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And yet established science has chosen to cover him over, to ignore and fudge: he threatened too many comfortable ideas.

  • @SUNNYRHOADES9
    @SUNNYRHOADES9 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    a Great Scientist -Thank you for posting this , smiles from Canada.

  • @PoffoBS
    @PoffoBS 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank YOU! :D

  • @kodycarter18m
    @kodycarter18m 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    one of the most intelligent guys to live, it is sad more people are not aware of his so called theory

    • @stuartbrown2111
      @stuartbrown2111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      low hanging fruit, is for some satisfactory, but not for all.

    • @Thefunksoulbro
      @Thefunksoulbro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I came over as Foster Gamble mentioned that he was his mentor.

    • @Thefunksoulbro
      @Thefunksoulbro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stuartbrown2111 good answer 😄

    • @stuartbrown2111
      @stuartbrown2111 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Thefunksoulbro ...................th-cam.com/video/KMbeK_6ATxQ/w-d-xo.html

  • @gummisnoodable
    @gummisnoodable 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I had a dream where someone mentioned the Institute for the Study of Consciousness. Because he founded the Institute, it led me here and other searches on the internet. Very strange as I don't think I've ever heard of him or this very vague Institute. I found some other strange connections that I'm still looking into.

  • @jh4wang
    @jh4wang 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very interesting video for human being is different from other things.

  • @Michael-vp4zt
    @Michael-vp4zt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    very insightful.

  • @goldenpeanuts9
    @goldenpeanuts9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    53:00 😂
    What a beautiful man/mind!

    • @goldenpeanuts9
      @goldenpeanuts9 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      listening again :)

    • @Deliquescentinsight
      @Deliquescentinsight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@goldenpeanuts9 Yes, I have returned three times to this story, and revisit his other videos regularly, a genuine discoverer.

    • @goldenpeanuts9
      @goldenpeanuts9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Deliquescentinsight
      it’s fascinating how processes work, with each listen , the comprehension advances

  • @peterfox8701
    @peterfox8701 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    a way to oil the windvanes of our minds

  • @invectrum
    @invectrum 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This blew my mind. The 4 level process reminds me of the 7 levels of consciousness described in the Law of One but with science actually integrated into it. I love how they mentioned single cell organisms evolving and developing organs. Once the stomach comes into play the so does the "self"...that organism now HAS a stomach. It slowly builds and evolves until the central nervous system develops all the way up until you have complex animals such as us humans.
    What I used to always do was question consciousness in reverse to make people question their what they thought a little bit.
    This is what I would say to someone that would say that a mouse or insect doesn't have a soul but a human does.
    So there is no doubt that you are YOU and you are consciously experiencing life right now, right? Now look at you dog or your cat. I think its safe to assume that your pet is having a conscious experience. It may not be able to have complex thoughts and an existential crisis like you can but that's because its brain isn't like yours. Keeping scaling down and ask that question about animals with smaller, less complex nervous systems & brains than us. Where do we draw the line? Are us humans the only ones with souls? You can scale down all the way to insects and realize there is some form of rudimentary consciousnesses at play in their drive to survive. So consciousness is as much a part of this universe as the physical elements that make everything we see around us. The physical elements being the brick and the consciousness being the mortar.
    At some point in history, the study of consciousness was left out of science because of our inability to measure it objectively and therefore anything to with metaphysics and consciousness is scoffed at and left out of the conversation. On the flip side, creationism will tell you the way things are through vague myths and symbolism, people with indoctrinated belief systems refuse to question their beliefs. We have to meet somewhere in the middle and this video made me think.
    If this is interesting to you look up:
    -The Law of One
    -Galileo's Error (by Philip Goff)

  • @aaronarcee
    @aaronarcee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is very similar to Gurdjieff's Enneagram

  • @andrews527
    @andrews527 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Of course, no footage of helicopter balletics over Vietnam in this.

    • @Deliquescentinsight
      @Deliquescentinsight 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The purposes which tools are put to, are they the moral province of the tool maker? If I forge a wonderful hammer, and then someone belts their mrs over the head with it, is that my fault? Arthur Young gave us a fabulous aircraft, what has Vietnam got to do with his thinking?

  • @epiccow6791
    @epiccow6791 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    !981 still news to me in 2019.
    From Helicopter to Cosmology
    Hegel wrote that the Absolute Spirit expresses itself
    through creation. At a higher level, opposites merge into one,
    we are still but the earth moves - we have 5 fingers in 1 hand.
    Mandelbrot Fractal Geometry =)

  • @YellowCakeRadio
    @YellowCakeRadio ปีที่แล้ว

    Ohhh weee

  • @stuartbrown2111
    @stuartbrown2111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    leanardo da vinci introduced the concept, then Sikorsky made his helicopter funded by Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff Russian composer, virtuoso pianist. Soinventor of the helicopter is not quite correct. however this "theorum" is what i would call a biycle for the mind. like cycling balance is required inorder to make good progress......I think ? I agree the mind is more powerfull than we currently undertand andi also think that is a good thing as we journey from a non apex predator into creators. or maintianers, partners even in this great dance we call life, is the universe a machine for making souls ? i suspect so. its rare that wisodm seeps from humans but if we look around the answers stare at us and hopefully remain illusive unitl we are grownup enough to use this knowledge with sagacious understanding. thats some way off imho. Peace, love and light.

  • @Deinacrida
    @Deinacrida 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "some things are beyond the realm of science.." (36.50mins, Frank Barr). This seems to pretty well sum up what Arthur and his followers enjoy; a kind of proof that there is more than the sum of the parts and therefore a vague type of evidence for god. However elegant and elaborately articulated, the 'reflexive universe' ideas are, in a word, woo woo. While Arthur Young was a brilliant mathematician and design engineer, it doesn't mean he was sensible when it came to cosmology. I think he departed from the principles of science (observation and data-based hypothesis testing). This is clear when he couples heaven (a human idea) with phototaxis in plants (at 42.40 Arthur calls it heliotropism) - a simpler reason might be strong selection for differential cytoplasmic pressure of photosynthetic cells in response to white light (note that fungi aren't 'heliotropic' because they feed off decaying matter while plants need sunlight to make starch). Having read both the Reflexive Universe and the Bell notes, it's interesting to follow Arthur Young's psychological change from extraordinary curiosity and success in design engineering to a somewhat self appointed position where he suggests that goal oriented problem solving in humans is somehow analogous to the observable universe (and therefore evidence of a grand designer). This, I think, is a psychological trap. Carl Sagan said "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Arthur Young hasn't shown any evidence for us to test his reflexive universe, such that it can become a useful paradigm for how nature works. What he does provide is a great study in how far individuals can extend their world view in proportion to their career.

    • @skyjuiceification
      @skyjuiceification 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Deinacrida "He does indeed show the limits of the tools science is used to availing itself of(if not empirically then at least philosophically). and that in of itself calls to mind a phenomenology of processes of mind and of operative cosmologic. he was every bit the scientist here that he was when he was inventing rotary flight. even if it is without efficacy in ur view. the one area where most "scientist" are generally at a disadvantage is in bringing ones subjective longings to ones drive to understand the universe. this is his magic. and ur western world view is better for him having contributed his later work. i think his work may indeed still be too far in advance for most egg heads comfort zone.

    • @Deliquescentinsight
      @Deliquescentinsight 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It is way too far ahead of current day scientists - but strangely his ideas seem to be borne out as time elapses. His Toroidal universe model for example is recently supported by discoveries concerning the macro structures of the universe -the Great Attractor for example.

    • @humanelectromagneticpsych7960
      @humanelectromagneticpsych7960 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The concept of "woo woo" is a luxury of a free, fed and warm body. The mind trapped in a gulag dungeon seeks alternatives to its situation i.e. heaven.
      Love, Light, Liberty sound like “woo woo” vague obvious concepts until we try to :
      a) work with them
      or
      b) live without them

    • @skyjuiceification
      @skyjuiceification 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Secretly, Form envies Chaos.

    • @scottpreston5074
      @scottpreston5074 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Deinacrida: Hmmmmmmmmmm.... Yes, but not necessarily.

  • @benjaminmillermusic
    @benjaminmillermusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    @35:25 lmaooo

  • @mysticlawlotus
    @mysticlawlotus 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    H Ha he's fyukin with peoples minds whilst teachin them. Not nice!

    • @stvbrsn
      @stvbrsn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not nice? Ha! In actuality, all “teaching” is self-teaching. Another person can’t really teach you anything.
      The closest they can come is to fuck with your mind in just the right way to get you to think about it on your own.

    • @Deliquescentinsight
      @Deliquescentinsight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stvbrsn Exactly, if we are too gentle with people they remain passive idiots.

  • @mzischkau
    @mzischkau 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's not that complicated, as usual smart people make life seem complicated.

  • @PLVC3BO
    @PLVC3BO 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I swear that guy at 2:10 looks like Joe Biden, but can't be him since he'd be looking younger in those years. Still uncanny resemblance though.