The Flower Chronicles: A Radical Approach to Systems and Organizational Development

In 2014 I published a digital book ‘ The Flower Chronicles’ which sought to apply a comprehensive fractal theory I had previously developed, to a range of practical situations.

My urge to do so was simple: could the theoretical and somewhat complicated fractal theory in Connecting Inner Power with Global Change: The Fractal Ladder be explained and applied simply, perhaps even by leveraging a simple and vastly prevalent natural form?

I found the form in a flower — whose journey from seed to flower — embodies a ubiquitous journey at the heart of every person, organization, phenomenon, situation, or framework.

Understanding the stage in which a journey existed helped to understand its reality and the likely obstacles it would face, and the steps it would need to take to continue to fulfillment. For several years from about 2010–2014, I used the framework to evaluate a range of local, regional, national, and global situations, and in 2014 summarized these evaluations as The Flower Chronicles.

Now interestingly, my intent was to publish the paperback soon after that.

However, as fate would have it I got distracted by the development of a new Cosmology of Light framework that was enumerated in a set of 10 books, a range of peer-reviewed academic writings, and the design of a light-based quantum computer. I finally emerged from that unexpected journey only a few months ago.

As I reflect on the three separate pieces — the fractal theory that connects inner dynamics to global change, the application of this to a vast range of practical situations embodied by The Flower Chronicles, and the more recent Cosmology of Light journey — it is clear to me that the flower, arising from a complex fractal-based seed and root system, sought always light and to turn its orientation to the Sun.

It hence was the connective piece that could only make sense after what it was connecting to — the framework encapsulating the comprehensive reality of a Cosmology of Light — was completed. But I know this only now, after completing the 10-book framework. So now, here finally, is the paperback that waited seven years to come into being.