Note: What follows is the Introduction chapter of my book, “The Illusion Worlds.” This book is a work in a progress.
- Decomposing A Phenomenon
In the discipline of Business Analysis various techniques are utilized to define complex systems, business operations and objectives in a manner which achieves a level of communication that can be understood by various audiences of different training, skill and educational backgrounds. Business Analysis as a field has its roots arguably going back to the time of Aristotle when the departmentalization of labor was associated with solutions proposed to increase efficiency of resource output. The Industrial then Information Revolutions pushed the advancing skill-set into a more diverse set of techniques in response to the changing nature of business and industry affected by these new paradigms affecting the way business is conducted.
Having read and researched a large volume of UFO material over the years it struck me that a business analysis approach to the topic was rarely employed. These methods could be useful in the reframing of UFO research as they are applicable in a polyvariant manner toward topics, events, scenarios and observations beyond just business processes, operations and information technology.
But no singular analysis technique is all-encompassing. In an attempt to further expand the spectrum of technique in which we can analyze this most puzzling of phenomena my ambition could not stop at business analysis. Indeed, it seems logical the Socratic Method can also be applied to assist in filling in the gaps. And where the Socratic approach may not hold water, the philosophical analysis techniques of Jiddu Krishnamurti may further bring us to fuller understanding of the nature of what is humanity’s most grappling Big Question.
I assess the analytical approach in this manner:
Business Analysis techniques – provides a hard deconstruction of an event, especially the common technique of decomposition
Socratic Method – provides a logical reasoning to determine the nature and truth of an event
Krishnamurti Philosophical base analysis – provides an analytical approach rooted in a philosophical attempt to free the mind from scientific, personal, societal and religious, among other influences, conditioning based on the philosophical approach and instruction of Juddah Krishnamurti.
- J. Krishnamurti
“Truth is a pathless land.”
— J. Krishnamurti
“Man cannot come to it (truth) through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.”
— J. Krishnamurti
The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching can be stated as the above. Krishnamurti taught and communicated through a voluminous amount of writing, lectures and journals that humanity cannot find truth through his inventions of organizations, creeds, dogmas, religious authorities, rituals, psychological techniques or philosophies. The only path to truth must go through the individual’s self-inquiry of one’s own mind. The observation of one’s thoughts, introspective analysis, an intellectual inquiry of the self, its beliefs, ideas, symbols, political orientations, morality, experience, relationships to others, the environments of nature and society and their various instigated causations affecting daily life.
Krishnamurti realized and repeatedly emphasized is that the result of coming to awareness of the myriad influences of the mind is the realization of true freedom. And only through that state of total freedom can a person come to the realization of truth.
Reading Krishnamurti, it struck me that while this core teaching is a wonderful philosophical perspective, it is also extremely useful as an analytical mindset. Especially when one considers all of the confirmation bias and preconceptional “baggage” the UFO subject brings to table.
It would be effective for researchers to come to the subject absent the preconditions of myth, institutional training, societal and peer opinion, monetary influence, superficial culture, personal beliefs, authority and organizational political pressure. But equally important, the absence of personal experience and beliefs, perhaps even at a subconscious level, which alters perception of analysis.
Thought is time. Thought is born of experience, of knowledge, which are inseparable from time. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and, therefore, time, so man is always a slave to the the past.
When man becomes aware of the movement of his own consciousness he will see the division between the thinker and the thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only pure observation, which is insight without any shadow of the past. This timeless insight brings about a deep radical change in the mind.
Krishnamurti had a method of inquiry which, in many ways, mirrors the business analysis technique of decomposition. This is perhaps why the author, being a business analyst by training, was struck with Krishnamurti’s method. Or, as Marcus Aurelius asked, “What is it in itself? In Its own construction?” To understand the construction, one must deconstruct, decompose its components to the best of one’s perceptual ability. If there ever were an area of research in which this technique would be useful it is the UFO phenomena.
When considering the UFO phenomena it would serve one well to achieve to the best extent possible the freedom of the preconditioning state as advocated by Krishnamurti. This is especially useful on a less macro level, the case-by-case analysis.
The researcher should consider the following meditations when conducting an analysis of the phenomena:
- Free the mind of preconceived notions about the phenomena at hand that originate from philosophical, religious, spiritual and political belief systems.
- Free the mind from symbolic associations that originate from one’s previous life experience including education, advertisements and other forms of symbolic metadata.
- Free the mind from confirmation biases, scientific or otherwise, which may have been formulated from the personal experiences and interactions one has with other individuals and peers, especially those who have acted as a mentor, parent, or other role of significant meaning and closeness to the researcher.
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