The way Book

	Introduction
	Chinook Blessing Litany
1	Ecology is a unified organization of knowledge	1
2	Ecology seeks to establish the laws of nature	7
3	Ecology studies natural systems in their Gaian context	11
4	Ecology is holistic	15
5	Ecology is teleological	22
6	Ecology explains events in terms of their role within the spatio-temporal Gaian hierarchy	28
7	Fundamental knowledge is inherited	33
8	Fundamental knowledge is ineffable and we mainly have access to it by intuition	36
9	Ecological knowledge is built up by organizing knowledge in the mind	40
10	The mind contains a hierarchical organization of instructions and an associated model or dynamic map	46
11	Ecology is qualitative	51
12	Only qualitative vernacular models can provide the informational basis for adaptive behaviour	56
13	Ecology is subjective	62
14	Man is cognitively adjusted to the environment in which he evolved	70
15	Ecology is emotional	73
16	Ecology is a faith	78
17	Ecology reflects the values of the Biosphere	82
18	A proposition can only be verified in terms of the paradigm or model of which it is part	88
19	The Biosphere is one	96
20	Gaia is a spatio-temporal entity	102
21	Gaia, seen as a total spatio-temporal process, is the unit of evolution	105
22	Stability rather than change is the basic feature of the living world	112
23	Gaia is alive	119
24	Natural systems are homeostatic	126
25	Natural systems are homeorhetic	133
26	The Gaian process is not random	136
27	Gaian processes are purposive	141
28	Life processes are dynamic	144
29	Life processes are creative	147
30	Life processes are anticipatory	152
31	Living things seek to understand their relationship with their environment	157
32	Living systems are intelligent	162
33	Consciousness is not a prerogative of man	167
34	Gaia is the source of all benefits	170
35	The Biosphere displays order	182
36	Gaian order is critical	187
37	There is no fundamental barrier separating man and other living things	193
38	The Biosphere is a hierarchical organization of natural systems	197
39	Competition is a secondary Gaian interrelationship	202
40	Cooperation is the primary Gaian interrelationship	210
41	When Gaian control breaks down, behaviour becomes heterotelic	216
42	Natural systems can only behave homeotelically within their 'tolerance range'	221
43	Living things can only behave homeotelically within their field	225
44	A system's field or its ordered environment is provided by the hierarchy of larger systems of which it is part	231
45	As the environment diverges from the optimum, biological maladjustment increases	235
46	As the environment diverges from the optimum, social maladjustment increases	240
47	As the environment diverges from the optimum, cognitive maladjustment increases	247
48	Man is psychically maladjusted to the world depicted by the paradigm of science	251
49	The internalization of control increases stability	254
50	Life processes are sequential and tend towards the most stable state	258
51	Increased complexity leads to greater stability	265
52	By increasing its diversity a system increases the range of environmental challenges to with which it is capable of dealing	270
53	Natural systems are homeotelic to Gaia	276
54	In a vernacular society, education is homeotelic to Gaia	282
55	In a vernacular society, settlements are homeotelic to Gaia	287
56	In a vernacular society, economic activity is homeotelic to Gaia	297
57	In a vernacular society, technology is homeotelic to Gaia	308
58	In an ecological economy, money is homeotelic to Gaia	319
59	The vernacular community is largely self-sufficient	323
60	The vernacular community is the unit of homeotelic behaviour	332
61	Vernacular man follows the Way	342
62	For vernacular man, to increase his stock of 'vital force' is to follow the Way	349
63	For vernacular man, to serve his gods is to follow the Way	354
64	Progress is anti-evolutionary and is the anti-Way	361
65	To keep to the Way, society must be able to correct any divergence from it	369
66	The Great Reinterpretation requires a conversion to the world-view of ecology	376
	Appendix 1 Does the entropy law apply to the real world?	382
	Appendix 2 What is information?	392
	Appendix 3 The artificialistic fallacy	403
	Appendix 4 The need for a feedback mechanism linking behaviour to evolution	408
	Bibliography	412