Seminar Details

January 28, 2006*: FieldStructure.org to host seminar on Field Structure Theory to a general audience

On Saturday Jan. 28th 2006 Fieldstructure.org will host it's first ever public seminar. This one day event will cover an introduction to fieldstructure theory and will be hosted by Don Briddell, struct-theorist. Other speakers include Joseph Clinton, Tom Miller and Roger Tobie.

Tentative Program:

• 8AM to 8:45AM = Pre-meeting meditation (a time for the field of being)
• 9:00AM to 11:00AM = : INTRODUCTION TO FIELD STRUCTURE THEORY: The Field Structure hierarchy will be discussed using 3-D models. The presentation will have a high visual content with working models. These structures are new to science and constitute a paradigm shift in the way energy/mass, as well as space/time are conceptualized.
• 11AM – 11:15AM = Refreshment break
• 11:15AM to 12:30 PM = Don’s presentation continues
• 12:30 to 1:30 = Lunch in the Gaia Country Kitchen, vegetarian cuisine
• 1:30 to 2:30 = presentation: THE EVOLUTION OF ACTION: Joe will be taking the listener on a literal ‘action packed’ graphic journey, showing how action folds, bends and knots.
• 2:30 to 4:00 = Tom Miller: ACTION GEOMETRY ARCHITECTURE: Tom’s synthesis of three-dimensional form and how it is organized.
• 4:00 to 5:00 = Roger Tobie: PURE TENSIONAL CONTINUUM: The concept of a field consisting of self-circuiting lines of force that are spinning Soliton waves.
• 5:00 to 5:30 = High Tea (Refreshments, pastries, and finger foods)
• 5:30 to 6:30 and beyond = Questions and answers with everyone participating.

Place: Next door to the Briddell home/studio is the Gaia Meeting Facility. The meeting is limited to 40 people. Use your Internet map search engine to find directions for:

8002-B Dollyhyde Rd., Mt. Airy, MD 21771, or call the Briddell’s at 301-829-1558 for verbal directions or to have them faxed.

Costs: So that we can prepare the correct amount of food and not have to fuss with bookwork on the day of the event, we ask attendees to pre-pay when you contact us to register.
$50.00 per person , Students $35.00

Registration: Reserve your place now by phoning Don or at:
Overboard Art, Inc. 301-829-1558, Fax 301-829-1896. Cash, Checks and Credit Cards accepted. donbriddell@fieldstructure.org www.fieldstructure.org

Mail to: Field Structure. Org, , 8002-A Dollyhyde Rd., Mt. Airy, MD 21771
Videos and audiocassettes of the presentations can be purchased at the meeting for delivery by mail after the event.

Seminar Abstract

Field Structure Theory (FST) is a scaffold from which we can get a clearer view of world in which we live. It shows how simple concepts can produce the vastly complex outcome of the universe when the operative principles are known. The simplicity of FST is astounding. The conclusions are intellectually satisfying, deeply intuitive and spiritual in their essence.

Field Structure Theory (FST) is a development of the structural geometry initiated in the modern era by Buckminster Fuller and Kenneth Snelson. Don Briddell began working with structural concepts in college at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY discovering in 1965 with his thesis co-worker Stanley Wysocki, skew geometry that lead to the discovery of Field Structures. The turning point in the development of the theory occurred in India where Don was taught the holistic FIELD view of reality. The classic Vedic view of India is the natural home of field consciousness. While the West developed the physical side of consciousness wherein the objects of reality were the primary concern, the Vedic approach concerned itself with the metaphysical holistic issue of experience. The times we are in right now is where fusion of these to opposing views of reality meet. Field Structure Theory (FST) is an outcome of this meeting.

The concept of field became the overarching FST issue, not the object embedded in the field, which is the typically Western point of view. While physics was seeing the particle as the source of the field, the classic Vedic view and that of FST, is that particles (matter) are the product of the field, not the cause, in the same sense that a knot is the product of a string and not the other way around. The perceptual shift is profound and has lead directly to the understanding of Field Structures.

Field Structures, while first a geometry, has applications to physical reality. It brings to physics a fresh conceptual energy by showing how deterministic Field Structures can model at the quantum level of reality. Modern physics has been stymied by the Uncertainty Principle. It is a blueprint for a house that does not allow for a door. The Uncertainty Principle does not allow for an observation to take place inside the house even though there is irrefutable evidence that the house has an interior. The results have been that determinism has been all but abandoned until string theorists in the latter part of the twentieth century began returning to geometry (i.e., Quantum gravity geometry).

FST approaches the problem differently. It reveals how loops of action can be structured into spatial events, and then how these loops of action build hierarchies to form the known energy field and their associated particles. The fact that nature has a way of allowing us to model reality at our scale of experience using field structures, saves physics from being an impossible dream, saves it from being a house without doors.

The daylong program will discuss what is known, its vision of reality, and where it will be going as a research. The meeting will start with basic concepts and build as the day progresses. This will be a day in your life devoted to the joy of contemplating how our universe works. You are invited to join us, contribute and hopefully make history. Don Briddell has presented FST in various formats on six previous occasions (see list at the end of this announcement). Because this work is young and formative, this program encourages your input. Time will be allocated for discussion.

If the idea of talking about the big picture interests you, this is a meeting you will want to attend.

Previous presentations of Field Structure Theory:

1. March 2004: Synergetics Collaborative winter meeting at Georgetown University, Washington, DC
2. July 2004: Summer meeting of Synergetics Collaborative STATE UNIV. OF NY (SUNNY), Oswego, NY
3. June 2005: Annual meeting of NPA (Natural Philosophy Alliance) UNIV. OF CONNECTICUT, campus at Storrs, CT., Math Department
4. July 2005: ScArt4 Symposium, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, Engineering Dept., New Brunswick, NJ
5. July 2005: Annual meeting of Synergetics Collaborative, STATE UNIV. OF NY (SUNNY) Oswego, NY
6. August 2005: Annual meeting of ANPA (Alternative Natural Philosophy Association) CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, Wesley House, Cambridge, England
   

* Snow date is February 2, 2006

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