Gregory Bateson

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Okay, what you're looking at on page one of today's worksheet is what I call the money change staircase, which is based on the logical levels model developed by Gregory Bateson and Robert Diltz.

And as you see on the staircase, we've got five steps and underneath them bedrock.

Every attempt you have ever made to fix your financial life happens somewhere on this staircase.

Margaret drove to the isolated laboratory and asked whether she could help.

Gregory Bateson, the anthropologist and communications theorist then directing the St. Thomas work, received her.

Bateson's interest centered on behavior, patterns, relationships, and communication systems.

Compared with Lilly, he was more cautious about treating unusual behavior as proof of human-like language.

people do get hurt at these things and you guys were talking about mosh pits and how they can like put you out of your uh you know normal states of being into vulnerable states where you can get hurt and cut and trampled and all of these things so this stuff was foisted on the boomers and the was interesting how you guys were talking about they pushed that sanity is insanity right with the lsd and the school bus and getting on this magic uh field trip bus where they were trying to invert what would you say like the the consciousness of sanity in the country

well there's there's several different aspects of that so you know this Bateson was certainly connected with this new psychiatry movement.

Okay.

And so RD Lang, the, you know, single malt drinking LSD popping, you know, hipster psychiatrist guy who had a house, right.

So he said, all you have to do is enter into their reality.

And, and, and so that was his promotion.

And, um, Bateson also kind of got on this bus and then it became sort of a movement, um, of, of, you know, of thinkers, free thinkers, everyone from like Allen Ginsberg to, um, uh, Aldous Huxley.

I think Aldous Huxley eventually, or at least, you know, other, other people did.

I'll link in the description to it.

Robert Diltz, which again, this model I have here, was built on the foundation of the Robert Diltz logical levels, which was inspired by the Gregory Bateson levels.

If you're interested in that, you can study that as well.

He discovered 14 language patterns, and there are infinite language patterns.

Margaret Mead worked with him for roughly forty years and wrote the appreciation for his seventy-fifth birthday issue.

By all accounts, she also brought him the Balinese trance footage she and Gregory Bateson had filmed in the 1930s and had him read the trance behavior off the film.

Bateson himself worked alongside Erickson from the war years onward, and the whole operation ran out of a converted garage behind his house.

He was married to Elizabeth Moore Erickson, a working collaborator rather than a spouse in the background.

the old Jackie Gleason character.

And, and so the husband, father, I love this.

I actually played this review.

Husband, father unit throws open the front, and it's like the saloon shot from, you know, he's towering.

Uh, uh, he's towering, and he looks at his family.

He goes, "I just spent eight hours on a boat with the guys drinking and fishing.

Stay up there, you're gonna have a miserable partner, you're gonna have a cold relationship, and you're gonna damage your kids the way you were damaged.

You know, one of the, uh, uh, ways I hook these grandiose guys is, uh, uh, I teach my students is this, a simple sequence of questions.

Mm-hmm.

Y- you cite the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, who talks about, uh, something called the message and the meta message.

Can you explain those terms to me?

Yes.

Uh, what do you mean by that?

Boys and girls tend to play in sex separate groups, and the ways that they socialize, the way little girls and little boys use language and play tends to be different.

Now, this is research by psychologists, anthropologists, uh, that have studied kids at play, and they have observed that girls tend to play in smaller groups, often one-on-one.

Their social life often focuses on a best friend.