FISHERMAN’S GUIDE TO THE COSMIC ORDER
New edition of Fisherman’s Guide: A Systems Approach to Creativity and Organization
(Shambhala, Boston, 1985)       For the general reader
  • Shambhala ISBN  0-87773-265-5
  • Random House ISBN 0-394-72334-1

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Book Summary:
CONTENTS

Preface     iii
Overture    iv
Prologue    vii

PART I - THE ROAD TO THE SYSTEM

1      Night Fishing                                                                                                  
The deficiency of science introduced                
2      White Men and Indians                                                                
Frameworks of understanding and the cosmic order                 
3     Circles and Squares                                                                        
Ancient systems and the cosmic order
4      Clouds                                                                                              
Conflict in business and a spiritual experience
5      Laundering Experience                                                                
Three polar dimensions in a business organization
6      More Laundering                                                                           
Hierarchies in the biosphere and business are the same
7      Three Mergansers                                                                        
The cosmic order as yang and yin and the basis of the system
8      Skywalk                                                                                           
Evolutionary tiers in nature’s energy refinery


PART II - THE SYSTEM

9      Voices in the Wilderness                                                                
System 1 and System 2
10    Smudgy                                                                                                
System 3 and the projection of the cosmic movie
11    Dance Halls and Spaceships                                                        
Sherlock Holmes investigates the mystery of the living cell
12    An Onion Dance                                                                                
Watson has his own ideas on the structure of the planet Earth
13    An Indian Dance                                                                                
Watson sees solar system hierarchies in Sherlock’s evidence
14    Black Bandits                                                                                
Universal hierarchies of System 4 while Sherlock looks at the stars
15    Ghosts and Ghouls                                                                        
System 4, the creative process, while Sherlock reviews cosmology
16    Graveyard Chess                                                                                
Three disciplines, transcending death, and the higher systems
17    Harmony                                                                                        
The poetry of evolution

APPENDICES

1      Further Discussion of System 4                                                        
2      The Human Nervous System
  1. The Limbic Cortex                                                                
  2. The Hypothalamus and the Cerebellum                                
  3. Business and Nervous System Organization                        
  4. Neuromuscular Spindles                                                       
  5. Spinal Proprioception                                                        
3      Science and Cosmic Order: A New Prospectus                                
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