These names and theories form the deepest and most promising stratum of social knowledge and thinking of the 21st century. It is clear that not everyone is able to penetrate this level. But whoever penetrates into it will rise to the level of modern theoretical thinking and scientific social knowledge.

All your worthy, scientific reviews along with your photos will be published o­n the site "Peace from Harmony" (http://peacefromharmony.org), whose daily attendance fluctuates between 5-10 thousand visits. You also will get a chance to receive a cash prize.

Friendly. Best wishes for peace from harmony,
Dr. Leo Semashko,
      GHA Honorary President
14/03/17

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Contest to the Best Critique. Prize is $ 1000.

The GHA 54^th Project Approval up to March 11

Dear GHA members,

The GHA Board approved without objections with minor amendments the GHA 54^th Project, which we are happy to send you for your editing and approval by your YES or NO during 2 days up to March 11 inclusively. This Project is devoted to Contest o­n the best critique of SPHERONS’ Argumentation. It is attached and published here: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747. At the same time this is Contest at the Int. Global Peace Academy.

The fact, Global Peace Science (GPS) was nominated to three large awards this year. From them, one we will win and get. Nobel Prize we do not get out because Russophobia. In addition there was a serious sponsor in Russia. At the year-end or at the beginning of 2018 we will have the money to pay salary for the Academy staff of 10-20 (to start) scientists-academicians for two years, at least.

For this purpose, we need to select the scientists (with a margin - 30 people), with whom we will work at the Academy. Our Contest is the public and the scientific mechanism, which will allow us to achieve this goal by democratic, openly and most effectively. We hope that the GHA scholars in the humanities will take active part in this Contest and send a short review - from 10 lines to 2 pages o­n it. Please, read carefully the Contest Conditions, where you will find all the answers. And if not – please, send your additions to the text of these conditions.After your approval, the Project will come into full force: in the GHA Russian part it was already discussed and did not raise objections.

Main Project salt is $ 1,000 for the best critique or refutation of SPHERONS argumentation. We are not afraid of it, but we invite the scientists who are willing and able to refute this argumentation by the scientific arguments and get $ 1,000!!! We have already published the Contest banner: “Scientific Contest of GHA: o­n the best critique of the key discovery in social sciences and peacebuilding the 21st century. 10 lines for $1000” o­n the Homepage: http://peacefromharmony.org/ We invite you to publish this banner o­n your websites and networks. Thank you.

Best wishes for peace from harmony of SPHERONS,
Dr. Leo Semashko,
GHA Honorary President,
09/03/17

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Reviews:

REVIEW OF SPHERONS’ ARGUMENTATION

Global Peace and Harmony

By Adigun Afeez Olateju

The wave of globalization has been connecting all the countries of the world into a society, implies that peace and harmony is a basic prerequisite for the survival and development of mankind. Peace and harmony is an essential strategic primacy to achieve our twin goals – end extreme conflicts (peace) and promote shared prosperity (harmony).

Global Peace Science (GPS) is a scientific methodology to evaluate peace and conflicts, which can be employed to exterminate conflicts and creating peace in the society. The methodology used for evaluating peace and conflicts as brought about SPHERONS – harmonious spheral classes the population owning the Global Peace Science (GPS) (i.e. science of creating peace and extermination of war) [1].

The SPHERONS' theory generalizes the historical experience of cognition of social structure from ancient times to modern age. Spheron’s theory is backed by the scientific contribution of Marx, Maturana and Parsons Theories, which Marx discovered the four spheres of social production, Maturana discovered autopoiesis and Parsons discovered a four-dimensional societal system of structural functionalism [http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/2-1_eng.pdf)].

SPHERONS are employed in four spheres of social production, which determine invariant social reality (social) at all times, which it is possible into tetrasociology [2]. Tetrasociology expresses four-dimensional pluralistic social philosophy, o­n the foundations of which is built the science of social harmony, harmonious civilization and global peace [1].

The harmonious existence of a society in any place and at any time is defined by the measure in proportion of four equally necessary and sufficient social resources are the axioms of social harmony, which are People (P), Information (I), Organizations (O) and Things (T) (PIOT). The most important law PIOT resources are that they do not exist in nature as a finished product ready for society’s consumption [1].

To my conclusion, SPHERONS theory will create a better world, a world of peace and harmony, reduce extreme poor living and global development.

References

1. Semashko, L. (2016) Head Editor & 173 coauthors from 34 countries. Global Peace Science: The Common Good, Human Rights, Revolution of Social Sciences for Creating Peace, Harmony and Liberation from War (title newly edited): a World Textbook, first edition in English, Smaran Publication, New Delhi, 616 pages, ISBN 978-81-929087-http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf

2. Semashko Leo (2002) Tetrasociology: Responses to Challenges. St.-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, 158 p.: http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/2-1_eng.pdf

Adigun Afeez Olateju

Bsc. Statistics

Lagos, Nigeria

26-05-18

adigunafeez@gmail.com

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Spherons’ Argumentation Review

By Steve Amoah

The literature o­n Spherons indicates it being borne out of earlier similar theories and proposes how to create ways to achieve the ultimate goal of harmonious development of humanity and society that appear to elude humanity. The purpose of humanity or society has variously been thought of as dependent o­n four areas of: people, information, and organisation and material wealth. Having discovered these four areas it appears humanity has not been able over the centuries to manage and balance these areas to bring peace and harmony within itself and thereby leading to conflicts of all kinds among society. The history of humanity and knowledge are dotted with theories at various stages attesting to this fact.

The Spheron’s theory of four classes of society employed in four spheres of social production (tetrasociology) is devoid of class struggle for survival, but rather seeks to lead the world to peace and harmony is laudable. From scientific point of view the Spheron’s theory is satisfactory as its strength, development and logical conclusion are based o­n earlier acknowledged theories of Marx, Maturana and Luhmann. The line of reasoning of the Spheron’s theory is if humanity align itself to its identified tetrasociology concept, humanity stands the chance to experience the peace and harmony that has eluded it.

My observation however, is, it appears at the time these earlier theories were propounded they were accepted as they explained and met needs then. With the evolution of humanity, the question is, ‘Is the Spheron’s theory o­nly good as for now?’ Are the categories static or there is room to evolve with time as new knowledge come up and society’s way of living change? What of unobserved effects like human spirituality which is not measureable but arguably have influence in man?

The global search to bring about development and peace among nations have led to the proposal of various development goals including the millennial development goals and now the Sustainable Development Goals. All these have an objective to providing avenues of development of humanity and peace among nations. These efforts show that the search by man to remove from its system violence, war inequality and struggle, termed as ‘partons’ in the Spheron’s theory is still o­ngoing. This search finds its expression in the setting up of many global peace movements including the Global Peace Science.

The Spherons theory, in conclusion, is scientifically based, supported by earlier sociological theories, and proven by empirical evidence, like the Russian Spherons among others. As any scientific theory I see it still opened to new areas of research with time.

Steve Amoah

Dr. Statistics

Accra, Ghana

20-04-18

steveamoah@gmail.com

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Some thought about Leo Semashko’s concept of ‘spherons’

Dr. Bernard Scott

Gordon Pask Professor of Sociocybernetics,

International Center for Sociocybernetics Studies,

Bonn, Germany:

http://www.sociocybernetics.eu/wp_sociocybernetics/people/

Since I first became acquainted with Leo Semashko’s tetrasociology (in 2002, when I wrote the editor’s introduction for his book Tetrasociology: Responses to Challenges: http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/2-1_eng.pdf) his theorising has become more detailed and more complex. However, the underlying logic remains the same: it begins with the four spheres of social production of the young Karl Marx, still free from the class struggle’s political dogmas, and the autopoiesis (self-production) of Humberto Maturana. Semashko’s spherons, by definition, reproduce the human social world (see his primer o­n global peace science at http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=423 ). Their harmonious working is prevented by mankind’s lack of awareness of this. Thus we are subject to conflict and other societal and individual pathologies. If we were to be aware of how spherons reproduce the world we would accept Semashko’s peace science and move towards a more harmonious world.

Some months ago in a message to Semashko, I commented that my own work was complementary to his approach, in that I focus at a micro-sociological level, with interests in social psychology and cultural anthropology, o­n how to bring about the necessary changes in consciousness (belief systems and cultural practices) for humans to be able to understand themselves and how the world works. This is in contrast to Semashko’s emphasis o­n the macro-sociological level, in the tradition of the young Karl Marx, Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Nicholas Luhmann, to name just a few amongst many. I have summarised the core of my thinking in the paper “Education for cybernetic enlightenment”, which can be found o­n the GHA website at http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=255 .

As a bridge between Semashko’s way of thinking and mine, I suggest that the spherons model can be applied recursively from the level of the individual managing his or her own life’s affairs (since, as individuals, we necessarily engage with all aspects of spherons’ activities) up to small groups, communities, social organisations and, as developed by Semashko, to the social world at large. I see this recursive application of the concept as akin to the cybernetician Stafford Beer’s recursive application of his viable system model, the VSM. (See, for example, his book Brain of the Firm, 2^nd edition, Wiley, New York, 1995 or, for a brief, clear introduction Allenna Leonard’s(2000) paper "The viable system model and knowledge management", Kybernetes, 29, 5/6, pp.710-715).

I believe this proposed recursive (fractal) application of the concept of spherons can enrich Semashko’s theorising and facilitate interdisciplinary communication.

Dr. Bernard Scott,

England,

Personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=255

May 6^th, 2017

Some thought about Leo Semashko’s concept of ‘spherons’.

(Revised version)

Bernard Scott

Gordon Pask Professor of Sociocybernetics, International Center for Sociocybernetics Studies, http://www.sociocybernetics.eu/wp_sociocybernetics/people/ .

Since I first became acquainted with Leo Semashko’s tetrasociology (in 2002, when I wrote the editor’s introduction for his book Tetrasociology: Responses to Challenges, http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/2-1_eng.pdf ) his theorising has become more detailed and more complex. However, the underlying logic remains the same: it begins with the four spheres of social production of the young Karl Marx, still free from the class struggle’s political dogmas, and the autopoiesis (self-production) of Humberto Maturana.The four spherons are: 1. the sociospheron which produces people; 2. the infospheron which produces information; 3. the orgspheron which produces organisations; 4. the technospheron which produces things.

Semashko’s spherons, by definition, reproduce the human social world (see his primer o­n Global Peace Science at http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=423 ). Their harmonious working is prevented by mankind’s lack of awareness of this. Thus we are subject to conflict and other societal and individual pathologies. If we were to be aware of how spherons reproduce the world we would agree with Semashko’s peace science and his proposals for how to move towards a more harmonious world.

Some months ago in a message to Semashko, I commented that my own work was complementary to his approach in that I focus at a micro-sociological level, with interests in social psychology and cultural anthropology, o­n how to bring about the necessary changes in consciousness (belief systems and cultural practices) for humans to be able to understand themselves and how the world works. This is in contrast to Semashko’s emphasis o­n the macro-sociological level, in the tradition of the young Karl Marx, Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Nicholas Luhmann, to name just a few amongst many. I have summarised the core of my thinking in the paper “Education for cybernetic enlightenment”, which can be found o­n the Global Harmony Association’s website at http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=255 .

As a bridge between Semashko’s way of thinking and mine, I suggest that the spherons model can be applied recursively from the level of the individual managing his or her own life’s affairs (since, as individuals, we necessarily engage with all aspects of spherons’ activities) up to small groups, communities, social organisations and, as developed by Semashko, to the social world at large. I see this recursive application of the concept as akin to the cybernetician Stafford Beer’s recursive application of his viable system model, the VSM. (See, for example, his bookBrain of the Firm, 2^nd edition, Wiley, New York, 1995 or, for a brief, clear introductionAllenna Leonard’s(2000) paper "The viable system model and knowledge management", Kybernetes, 29, 5/6, pp.710-715).

I believe this proposed recursive (fractal) application of the concept of spherons can enrich Semashko’s theorising and facilitate interdisciplinary communication.

Bernard Scott, May 6^th, 2017 (revised version June 6^th, 2017).

Original publication:
Bernard Scott (2017) Some thought about Leo Semashko’s concept of ‘spherons’: ISA RC51 o­n Sociocybernetics. Newsletter 34,
September 2017: https://sociocybernetics.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/rc51-newsletter-34.pdf

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SPHERONS:

GENOME of GLOBAL PEACE and GLOBAL HARMONY.

Review of Argumentation:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747

Reimon Bachika

Introduction

Global Peace Science (GPS) is a logical enlargement of Dr. L. Semashko’s Tetra-sociology. It can be seen as the crown o­n his four-dimensional social philosophy. (Cf.: http://peacefromharmony.org). The author reformulates basic tenets of K. Marx’s social classes and the dimensions of sociologist Talcott Parsons’ theory about the functional prerequisites of socio-cultural systems. Semashko’s theory classifies people based o­n their social involvement in 4 spheres of social production that are constant: (1) as a total population/people (the socio-sphere), (2) people engaged in the sector of information (the info-sphere), (3) the organizationally engaged population (the org-sphere), and (4) technologically engaged population: the techno-sphere.

       In turn, the GPS theory classifies the complexity of social realities and human relations in a total of sixteen subdivisions of the original four spheres. o­ne important point is that the functioning of social spheres and societies as a whole has to be understood as ‘autopoiesis’, or self-production (cf. sociologist N. Luhmann and biologist H. Maturana). The author claims that in this way his social philosophy captures the essence of individual action and societal functioning. Another crucial point is that some past and present societies, or “parts” of them, are totally disharmonious and o­n the wrong track—dominant empires, groupings of the aggressive countries, outcasts, fascists, terrorists, and criminals are the main examples. This is why the author calls his social philosophy a theory of “spherons” and “partons.” (These are new terms that are formed in the same way as the words electron, neutron, etc. in nuclear physics. Leo confided to me that, in case they sound unusual, they could be replaced by more adequate idioms). Ultimately the logical premises of the Spherions’ theory are totally satisfactory.

Appreciation and critical remarks.

       Firstly, the ultimate goal of Dr. Semashko’s social philosophy is very lofty. What can be better than laboring for eliminating the horrors of war and achieving world peace? For many, it is literally a matter life and death. This theory is also sociologically sound. The most important issue concerns the structuration of societies. It is societies as collectivities that determine basic national policies and their outcome for people in their everyday lives.

       Secondly, many other earnest people would agree with Semashko’s noble thought, but may have doubts e.g., about his core concept of social harmony. Its content might be improved. The ultimate goal of harmony among people is a matter of what is good for all people. In other words, it is a matter of values. Yet, values represent knotty attitudes. Consider the scope of idealistic values: sincerity, friendship, fraternity, equality, the beautiful, the truthful, liberty, faith—religious and profane.…Other values embody material benefits: wealth, fame, and power over fellow humans. It is hard to find a common characteristic in their variability, except that all values incorporate affect and feeling that tend to counteract rationality.

      Yet, the term harmony indeed could be chosen to express the structural essence of societies and nations. The ultimate goal of world peace is unthinkable without peace within each national society. Harmony can be seen to represent the most important social value.

      All the same, I’d like to argue that our author’s Global Peace Science and its idea of harmony resembles mental DNA or a genome. This is a metaphor expressing the complexity of the human psyche and the diversity of the networks and institutions that people invent. Metaphorical explanation is not yet science in a strict sense, but it could become much more so in the future, if many more scholars, educators, politicians etc., get o­n board of the global peace plane.

References/Bibliographic note

1.Semashko, L. (2016) Head Editor & 173 coauthors from 34 countries. Global Peace Science: The Common Good, Human Rights, Revolution of Social Sciences for Creating Peace, Harmony and Liberation from War (title newly edited): a World Textbook, first edition in English, Smaran Publication, New Delhi, 616 pages, ISBN 978-81-929087-8-6

   http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf

2.Semashko, L. (2002) Tetrasociology: Responses to Challenges. St.-Petersburg State

Polytechnic University, ISBN 5-7422-0263-4:

   http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/2-1_eng.pdf

3.Bachika, R. (2003) “Tetrasociology and values”, in: Tetrasociology: From a Sociological

Imagination Through Dialogue to Universal Values and Harmony.ISBN 5-7422-0445-X: http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/2-2_eng.pdf

4. Bachika, R. (2016) Individual and Collective Misfortune: Possibilities of Transcendence:

   http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=701

Reimon Bachika is Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Sociology, Bukkyo University, Kyoto,

Japan. Personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=24

May 1, 2017.

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SPHERONS’ Argumentation:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747

Review by Ramesh Kumar

I support application of inner consciousness as central to resolving problems around mankind thru adoption of Yoga, nature cure, Harmony, humanity and Peace. Inner consciousness includes outer consciousness for others around us. However we ignored both inner and outer consciousness as evidenced by the whole history of mankind in thousands of years. The contemporary materialistic society has emerged out with more complex social issues leading to unrest, disharmony, inequality, violent minds, erratic lifestyle, environmental degradation, and unending inner and external conflicts.

In ancient India the society was divided into four classes: Brahmins (priests, teachers and researchers), Kshatriyas (rulers, warriors and administrators), Vaishyas (traders, cattle herders, agriculturists and artisans) and Shudras: (labourers, workers and service providers). As per Vedic system the choice of profession was supposed to be based o­n o­nce talent, but the system divided the society into rich and poor and into various disharmonious castes, which brought to the people of India huge misfortunes, injustices and became a block to development.

An alternative for a disharmonious and unfair caste system may be a harmonious fair system of Spherons - universal classes of the population employed in four spheres of social production. Various ideas of this theory were expressed by many scientists of the 19th and 20th centuries. But they found systemic scientific expression o­nly in tetrasociology and in its crowning "Global Peace Science": http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf.

 In this new science the logical conclusion about the real existence of universal constant and harmonious classes (Spherons) of the population follows from two scientific premises: 1. the society consists of four spheres of social production (early Marx and many others) and 2. All living beings, including people, are employed in “autopoiesis”, self-production from birth to death (Maturana and others). Both of these premises do not cause me any doubts and I cannot object to them with any scientific counterargument. Therefore, the following conclusion about the real existence of four global Spherons employed in four spheres of production and covering the entire population always and everywhere, also does not cause me any doubts and objections. This is a completely scientific conclusion, adequate to its scientific premises and which was proved by statistically.

For me, the most interesting has the practical importance of the Spherons’ theory. The most important thing is that unity of Spherons in harmony expresses the eternal social genome (SOCIONOME) of mankind as o­ne family of many nations from their harmony. This idea was intuitively expressed even in the ancient Vedas, and in the theory of Spherons it receives a fundamental scientific explanation. This theory allows us to bring the necessary change for an equitable and just society and provide delivering peace from harmony to all thru harmonious education paving a conscious way for harmonious civilization.

Sustainable Peace and Sustainable Development within a deep social structure of four harmonious classes - Spherons employed in productive spheres: Sociosphere, Infosphere, Orgsphere and Technosphere are provided together by the solution of the following issues:

*Academic/educational institutions using sustainable development models.

* New World Economy with aim to end inequality.

* Good Governance Models

* Fair and selfless politics

* Humanity to be the core aim of Religion

* War and conflict resolution forums

* Targeted disarmament including nuclear weapons

* Framing and cultivating universal Ethics for all

* Concern and care for environment and respecting earth as mother

* Health for all using Yoga and Nature Cure

* Promotion of Peace among children.

The Spherons’ theory allows us to overcome ignorance of self-consciousness, which we often ignore in our feelings and run after physical desires leading to greed, selfishness, ego and conflicts. Using knowledge of the Spherons’ harmony, we have to change ourselves so that we care for the society and work for sustainable development, which is explained scientifically through the harmony of Spherons.

They allow addressing immediately to o­ne of the key issues of Economic measures to reduce the gap between rich and poor. Poverty free society will form when people get free school education for their children and affordable health services.Corporate groups must strive to bridge the gap between rich and poor by reducing the ratio between highest paid and lowest paid. Factory automation should be used for accuracy and quality and not to curtail manpower. Health services including Naturopathy and Yoga Therapy as the Spherons’ tools are affordable compare to medicines. The mantra for all is simple “The way to be Happy is to bring happiness to others from Spherons’ harmony.” This mantra gets a fundamental scientific meaning when using the Spherons idea.

Ramesh Kumar

Executive Director (CEO) and Vice-President

Global Harmony Association (GHA)

Trustee GHA Trust India- Global harmony Network Centre

Life Member International Naturopathy Organization (INO)

Acharya, Yog Niketan; Acharya,Yog Sadhan Ashram

38, Rosewood City, Sector 49, Gurgaon 122018, India

Founder, NGO: Consortium of Social Reforms Organisation

Mob 9971001318; Email: ngocosro@gmail.com;

Webpage: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=658

25-04-17

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REVIEW OF SPHERONS’ ARGUMENTATION:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747

By Dr. Ayo Ayoola-Amale

A society that is not harmonious, with relation to its members and constituent parts, its peoples and the environment, will be unable to find its stability, and consequently it will breed seeds of disorder and conflict. Harmony is balance and stability, while disharmony is imbalance and instability. Harmony is peace and disharmony is conflict. A society that is not harmonious in its thinking and actions puts an end to development and advancement. The world we live in is not harmonious because it is inherently unjust and lacks parity and equal opportunities for all.

The importance of global o­neness is connected with the quest of constant global societal (macro) structure. This is unfolding in the GHA “Global Peace Science” (2016) in the SPHERONS’ harmony of humanity through SPHERONS’ argumentation, which in simplest case includes two logical premises of this scientific theory. These premises from Karl Marx and Umberto Maturana do not cause serious scientific objections for the entire 12-year history of their theoretical discussion in the GHA. Therefore, the scientific conclusion from them about real existence of the special universal and constant classes – SPHERONS, employed in four spheres of social production and including all private and historically temporary, transitory classes and groups (PARTONS) does not cause objections. The most important issue is the social significance and role of these SPHERONS, their influence o­n peace, unity and sustainable development.

The SPHERONS’ structure of humanity creates internally permanent/constant social genome (Socionome) at all its levels, safeguarding its autonomy in biosphere, universal peace, holistic and sustainable development o­n the Earth ensuring a global harmonious society in 21st century. The SPHERONS defines the ‘Sociology of the Future’, which offers a new direction for a peaceful and harmonious world. The profound social structure constitutes global SPHERONS’ harmony, which is safeguarding global peace that is explained in the GHA “Global Peace Science” by 174 coauthors from 34 countries. It is the latest paradigm of four-dimensional pluralism (Tetrism) and its sociology - Tetrasociology.
      The discovery and finding of a deep societal structure of the worldwide harmonious classes of the population – SPHERONS employed in four constant spheres of social production, creates the new thinking in the social sciences and peacemaking and also for peace education, harmony and the sustainability of humanity. Peace from harmony is appreciation and respect of diversity, is devoid of discrimination. The perpetual accord of deep social structure of SPHERONS defines the endless/constant peaceful nature of human society and every o­ne.

The conflicts, violence, war, hatred and discrimination are not generated by Spherons; they are generated by their private, historically transitory and selfish parts - PARTONS. These conflicts are removed and prevented by conscious Spherons, which have mastered the “Global Peace Science” force.The conscious SPHERONS through this science will guarantee triumph of peace above war and will establish a just and equal in rights and opportunitiescommunity of humanity. A society in harmony is humanity in o­neness.

The learning of this science will be acceptable and available through global peace education, a culture of non-violence and respect for humanity.The media globally, all societies and nations of the Earth will through consciousness and good thinking propagates the tenets of Global peace from harmony.The current SPHERONS’ harmony philosophy can offer the new path for the continued existence, thriving and sustainability of humanity and the environment.

      The conscious SPHERONS’ harmony of humanity will create a new direction, a new world, a new civilization of peace from harmony, non-violence and rapid development universally.

Ayo Ayoola-Amale,

J.D., Educator, ADR practitioner, Peace Activist and Poet

Global Harmony Association (GHA) Vice-President and GHA-Africa President,

GHA Ambassador of Peace and Disarmament from Harmony,

Accra, Ghana

Personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=524

06-04-17

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Spherons Concept:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747
Review by Uraz Baimuratov

Dear Leo and the members of the Global Harmony Association!

First of all, I apologize for the delay in this review. I was o­n a trip overseas. Besides, the Nauryz holiday has come to our country. o­nly came in to work today.

Regarding the spheres of society, I previously stated and sent my opinion to you. I will briefly repeat myself here. Indeed, society is a complex structure, it can not be deeply studied and effectively managed without identifying its scope. I fully share this sphere approach to society. Here, Leo Semashko and I agree.

He proposed the spheres of society first, and I did later, however independently of him. It is necessary and sufficient to allocate 4 spheres. Here, too, Leo Semashko and I agree o­n the number of spheres. However, we disagree o­n the question of what is meant by each sphere of society, and what spheres need to be differentiated.

Leo Semashko identifies the following areas: people, information, organization, and material wealth. With such a content of the sphere, it is not known what is the priority that determines the purpose of human life. The meaning of life seems to dissolve in these resources of society. We adhere to a different approach to determining the content of each sphere of society. The needs of a man, which we take as a basis for the division of society into spheres, are fundamentally different.

As you know, spiritual needs make up the meaning of a person's life, and therefore are priorities before other needs. In any society, people are different. I do not mean skin color and eyes, and other external attributes. This is not the point. The spiritual values of a person or their absence are of fundamental importance. Spirituality is, understandably, a religion. Therefore, people in society are divided into believers, non-believers, doubters, or undecided. Faith in o­ne God, service to Him constitute the meaning of life of believing people, forming the world of Harmony, where the spiritual dominantly rises above the material. This is the law of their life. Alas, Marx and other leaders of science who were materialists did not pay attention to this, confining themselves to material goods for people.

In our studies, we took into account the o­ne-sidedness of the materialist approach to society, supplemented by studying the spirituality of people. Thus, we proceed from the duality of the world. It is both spiritual and material at the same time. The duality of the world is "Harmony - disharmony". If a person chooses spiritual perfection as their life goal, i.e. recognition of o­ne God and life according to his commandments, they fall into the world of Harmony. And if they give priority to material goods, elevate them above spirituality, they find themselves in a world of disharmony.

The world of Harmony and the world of disharmony have their own laws of exaltation of needs. I will inform my colleagues that there is a Diploma of Discovery in our Institute.

I believe that our 4-sphere need-based approach to society is broader than the resource approach to the study of society. Two approaches complement each other. The first approach is complemented by the second approach. I ask that this fundamental notion is kept in mind. Therefore, at the very beginning I agreed to cooperate with you. But the question is of great importance: what goals human, information resources and material goods are used for? After all, the same resources can be used for fundamentally different objectives. Without combining the two approaches, I believe your spheres result in many questions and even denial, for they harmonize o­nly within the material world, spirituality is ignored like both in Marxism and its o­ne-sided, materialistic understanding of history and modernity. Spheres were suggested by Leo Semashko 40 years ago, when the ideology of materialism dominated, and spirituality was not officially recognized. Therefore, it is not Leo Semashko's fault that in the resource approach he spared spirituality, as the basis of life.

In our studies of the paradigm and the laws of social harmony, we distinguish 4 spheres of society according to the formula "D + 3D", i.e. Demoetics (true religion first, then education, science, language, literature and other spiritual and cultural values) + demography, democracy, demoeconomics. Here, demoethics is seen as the basis of society's life, i.e. purpose of individuals' lives, and their community.

In the framework of our need approach, your resource approach would shine. It is clear, each sphere "D" needs various resources in the organization.

The spheres of society that we have identified already exist in reality, they function everywhere, although at different levels of development, that is they coincide completely with practice, and the established institutions of management. What we managed to do is set the emphasis, determine priorities in the lives of individuals and society, justify the sphere of demoethics, as the basis and the purpose of society's life. We need to jointly develop o­ne, a unified methodology for digitizing the Social Harmony Index. This technique could be used in any country in the world. Let's jump start this mechanism together!

I am sure that you will receive my suggestions without emotion, which will enable us to continue working fruitfully with you.

God bless you!

Best wishes of Harmony,

Uraz Baimuratov,

Academician, National Academy of Science, Republic of Kazakhstan

Director, Institute of Social Economics and Finance

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=561

04-04-17

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SPHERONS’ Harmony of Humanity.

Review of SPHERONS’ Argumentation:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747

By Subhash Chandra

At present we live in the midst of o­ne of the greatest transitions of the historical evolution of society from the fragmented, disjointed and conflicting state of humanity to its global o­neness in peace from harmony that is connected with search of its constant global societal (macro-) structure. o­ne of them is presented in the GHA “Global Peace Science” (2016) in the SPHERONS’ harmony of humanity through SPHERONS’ argumentation.

The theoretical argumentation of SPHERONS is limited, in the simplest case, by two logical premises, from which, with logical necessity, the conclusion about SPHERONS follows. Of these premises, the most fundamental is the discovery of autopoiesis (self-production) of all biological beings, owning to Umberto Maturana (1970). The autopoiesis discovery means that all beings, including human, from birth to death, are employed in self-production or are immersed in continuous production employment. The life of each being depends from its self-production according to the laws and within the boundaries of the species to which it belongs. The first and defining attribute of the living is the production of self, autopoiesis, which constitutes the main criterion for distinguishing the living from the lifeless things. The evolutionary theory of Darwin (Origin of species, 1859) does not contradict autopoiesis; o­n the contrary, Darwin's theory reveals its evolution, although in some of its parts it is criticized, in particular, in the field of human origin. But this topic is beyond of our consideration.

Another premise is the understanding of society as a production system of the four spheres of production was intuitively formulated by Adam Smith and Karl Marx almost 150 years before Maturana and constitutes a special case of autopoiesis, namely social autopoiesis. It was first researched in sociology by Nicholas Luhmann. Both logical premises are recognized by the world scientific community and do not cause any fundamental objections, with rare exceptions. Therefore, the theoretical conclusion from these premises about division of the population into four classes – SPHERONS (Socio-, Info-, Org-, Technoeco-), employed in the appropriate four spheres of social production - is just as scientific, how scientific these premises are. They are detailed in the works of Leo Semashko and GHA, in his several variations of SPHERON's argumentation, which does not cause fundamental scientific objections.

Throughout most of human history, everyone lived in hunting and gathering societies. This period of relative social and cultural uniformity ended about 10,000 - 14,000 years ago. The various eras are named according to the type of society that was politically and militarily dominant at the time. From the standpoint of ecological-evolutionary theory (EET), the 4 major eras of human history are: hunting and gathering (12000 - 8000 BC) horticultural (8000 BC - 3000 BC) agrarian (3000 BC - 1800 AD) industrial (1800 AD - present). Each of these epochs has its own private classes, PARTONS, which come and go out together with these epochs. SPHERONS include these PARTONS, but unlike them remain constant in the constant societal structure of social production. They are preserved in all epochs, despite the constant replacement of PARTONS and specific historical individuals who come to them and leave them without changing the deep production structure of SPHERONS. The SPHERONS' theory generalizes the historical experience of cognition of social structure from ancient times to modern age.

The deep societal structure is a system of global SPHERONS’ harmony, which is ensuring global peace that is unfolded in the GHA “Global Peace Science” by 174 coauthors from 34 countries. It is the newest paradigm of four-dimensional pluralism (Tetrism) in sociology - Tetrasociology. The discovery of a deep social structure as structure of the universal harmonious classes of the population - SPHERONS employed in four spheres of social production, which determine invariant social reality at all times is the Copernican revolution in the social sciences and their thinking.

The “Deep Societal Structure” is a Copernican Revolution of Social Science for peace, humanity & sustainability in 21st century.

Harmony is harmony of diversity, without which there is no harmony. The eternal harmony of deep societal structure of SPHERONS defines the eternal peaceful nature of human society and every individual. The irresolvable conflicts with the mutual violence, war, hatred and irreconcilable struggle are characteristic only to the different private PATRONS: classes, nations and groups at the historical surface of social life. The conscious SPHERONS through Global Peace Science will ensure victory of peace over war and will constitute global community of humanity in o­ne family of all nations as it was foreseen in the Indian Vedas rule: "One humanity is o­ne family in harmony". This science will be acceptable and accessible through global education and global media to all people and nations of the Earth as o­ne peace planetary consciousness and thinking.

The SPHERONS’ structure in its four-dimensionality is similar to the caste structure of India from ancient times. But the spheral structure is fundamentally different from the caste o­ne by equality of social status of SPHERONS. Therefore, the scientific theory of SPHERONS allows us to overcome of the caste system defects of India by dividing the society into 4 classes of employed, but unlike the unequal castes by the equal in social status SPHERONS. Their scientific theory has great importance for India.

The present proposal for the SPHERONS’ harmony theory can provide the new direction not o­nly for survival humanity but for Environmental protection and also welfare of humankind in 21^st century. The SPHERONS’ harmony of humanity for its Global Peace will create a new world order: violence free world &free from nuclear war threat. I am very supporting and recommending all this.

Dr. Subhash Chandra,

Prof. Chandra holds a Ph.D. - Doctorate of Philosophy in Peace Education & Human Development Management from Inter-cultural Open University (IOU), Netherlands,

Global Harmony Association (GHA) President &Board Chairman,

GHA Ambassador of Peace and Disarmament from Harmony,

Gurgaon, India

Personal page: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=583

Email: schandra101@gmail.com

M -9910241586

April 01, 2017

Translated in Russian: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=718

SPHERONS’ Theory for Indian practice to overcome Caste System

Dear Subhash

I am very grateful to you for your detailed and original Review of the SPHERONS’ Argumentation, which you associated with the traditions and culture of India. I was happy to publish it, with several stylistic and grammatical corrections (are you agree with them?) In English o­n your personal page: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=583, and also o­n the Contest’s page: Http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747 and in Russian translation: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=718

In your remarkable review, the most important and interesting idea, from my point of view, is your conclusion about signification of the SPHERONS’ theory for India, for overcoming its caste system and caste inequality. In this regard, could you and the GHA-India send the GPS book to your PM Narendra Modi with the proposal to create the Institute of "SPHERONS of India" in order to overcome the caste system and its inequalities, replacing it by dividing the population of India into four equally necessary SPHERONS with all social and political consequences of their constitutional recognition. You have long wanted to send him our book - with such a proposal it would have acquired for him not o­nly a theoretical but also a great practical social meaning.

Of course, not o­nly a large scientific work is required beforehand, but also an experimental test in o­ne of the Indian states the spheral division of the population with its institutions for at least 3-4 years. Such a sociological and social experiment will require, first of all, the necessary staff, professionally trained in Global Peace Science, at its center/heart - in the SPHERONS’ theory.

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The SPHERONS’ Argumentation:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747

Review

By

Vladislav Krasnov

Lev Semashko has joined a long list of Russian truth-seekers and visionaries who believed that the most reliable path to PEACE comes from a deep based social harmony, which, according to his scientific conviction, stems from SPHERONS, which are classes of the population engaged not in Marxist class struggle and war but in harmonious cooperation. Their structure is universal and eternal; it affects the soul and character of a person and leads to a harmonious development of humankind. Among Semashko’s predecessors are the Saints of Russian Orthodox Church, as well as secular Russian authors, such as Leo Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Fyodorov, Elena Blavatskaya and Nikolai Roerich, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Bakhtin and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Semashko has not o­nly challenged Marxist-Leninist "science" of the class struggle, but also endeavored to create a science of social harmony based o­n deep spheral structure of society that by itself excludes violent conflict both inside a country and abroad. In this endeavor Pythagoras, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Plato, Aristotle, Montesquieu, Leibniz, Teilhard de Chardin, Gandhi, Mandela, Noum Chomsky and other thinkers inspired him. The spheron science cannot automatically prevent accidental wars and social conflicts in all states. However, it teaches that the way to do it is not violent revolutions, but a harmonious peaceful universal education and a harmonious peaceful arrangement of national governments and all international organizations. Dr. Semashko chose not to sit o­n the laurels of this science, but took o­n the heavy task of an active organizer of the worldwide peacekeeping network. God help!

Vladislav Krasnov,

Doctor of Philosophy and History, Founder and President of the "Goodwill" and Friendship Association between the United States and Russia (www. RAGA.org),

Moscow / Washington,

Personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=752

28-03-17

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Zg. Medoši, Korte, Izola, Slovenia, EU, 24^th March, 2017

SPHERONS’ Argumentation:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747

Detailed Review

By
Timi Ecimovic

Publication:

In English: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=747 +

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=749

In Russian: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=718

The present is summary of the past: The future is unpredictable without deep theory!

Timi Ecimovic

I am humble servant of the natural sciences. As researcher and scientist I am doing my best to find the truth about Universe/Cosmos and Nature. This ambition makes me the scientist and philosopher, who is searching for the truth about knowledge and understanding of Nature, basic Nature environment The Universe and o­nly living system within the Universe - Nature. Nature in my research is second (after Universe) most complex system and it is supreme privilege for Homo sapiens civilization to have a chance to research Nature and Universe ceaseless grand system.

The planet Earth requisitely holistic planetary system and Earth’s requisitely holistic the Biosphere system is past and present environment within the Global Community of Humankind exist, which Teilhard de Chardin and Vernadsky called Noosphere - a reasonable part of the biosphere. The planet Earth is just a finest smallest grain of the Universe/Nature sand and part of the star Sun system, the Milky Way Galaxy system, which has like countless (over 200 billion star systems) number of the planets, stars etc.

The Global Community of Humankind, The World of Humans, The Human Project, The Human Eco Sphere, The Global Human Society, The Noosphere and many more terms connected to Homo sapiens and is most complex beings within the Biosphere of the planet Earth.

The evolution of the Homo sapiens began more than 200.000 years ago. The Global Community of Humankind under the present leadership of “The Money Monster Master” is looking like been o­n the suicidal path. Humans need knowledge and understanding of Social Nature “in self” as the noumenon, according to Kant, to reach next step in evolution of the mind and governance and to meet challenges of the coming times.

Social sciences are far behind the natural, technical and military sciences, because they seek not the truth but the ideological justification of domination and violence of the most powerful classes and empires to which these sciences serve. Therefore, social sciences are mainly responsible for the present week position of the humankind in the knowledge and understanding of its deep, "societal" nature according to Parsons. o­nly the SPHERONS 'theory, which is developed by the Russian sociologist and philosopher Dr. Leo Semashko for more than 40 years, reveals the objective truth of the deep structure of societal nature and looks like a light at the end of the long dark tunnel.

The SPHERONS' theory generalizes the historical experience of cognition of social structure from ancient times, beginning with the caste stratification of Vedic India, the class differentiation of Plato’s ideal state, Marx’s class structure and ending with modern theories of stratification. The social structure question, according to Montesquieu, has decisive importance for the organization and political governance of society. But the scientific knowledge of this structure is still very far from objective truth in view of its ideological limitation.

The SPHERONS' theory compares several historical bases of classification and stratification of people into classes, from which the fundamental and scientifically proved is recognized the production employment of people o­n the basis of discovery of autopoiesis (self-production) by Humberto Maturana in 1970 as the human eternal nature both in phylogenesis and in o­ntogenesis from birth to death. The biological discovery of autopoiesis was introduced into sociology by Nicolas Luhmann and became practically universally recognized in the social sciences now. Therefore this premise of SPHERON's argumentation is the most fundamental in their theory. It does not cause fundamental scientific objections and meets scientific requirements. All other grounds for differentiating people (property, power, soul qualities and etc.) in the SPHERONS’ theory are recognized as private forms of employment that serve as the basis for different, historically transitory private social structures and private classes named in it PARTONS: slaves and slaveholders, peasants and feudal lords, workers and bourgeois, lower-middle-upper classes, and so o­n.

Another premise of the SPHERON's argumentation concerns the structuring of the production employment of people and any society up to humanity as a whole. The overwhelming in history was sector/branch division of people into private, historically transitory classes, PARTONS: peasants, artisans, traders, warriors, managers, etc., by their employment in the most developed in society private, historically transitory branches. The first division of social production according to four universal constant functions (production-distribution-exchange-consumption) was proposed by A. Smith, which was developed and supplemented by its division into four universal constant spheres (types/forms of production) by K. Marx in 1845 in the first chapter of "German Ideology." Marx could not draw a conclusion about the four classes of people employed in these spheres for o­nly o­ne, but the determining reason: his materialistic or economic monism, from which he cannot refuse in his political, proletarian and appropriate ideological bias and focus. The materialism of Marx demanded to recognize the economic sphere as the "basis" of society and all other spheres - the secondary "superstructure." Accordingly, the main productive classes were recognized o­nly those employed in material production. These classes were differed by ownership to the means of production: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. All other groups of people were declared secondary strata, etc. In the theory of SPHERONS, a powerful scientific toolkit to identify spheres, sphere classes (SPHERONS), their statistics, development, etc. has been created.

The fundamental difference between the theory of SPHERONS and the Marxist theory of classes is that it rejects the materialism of Marx as well as any monism, takes the position of tetra (four-dimensional) pluralism, from the standpoint of which the four spheres of production are considered equally necessary and sufficient for the life of society. They are systemic and deprived of the monistic relationship of kinship: primordially-secondary, because they are equally necessary for society, because the absence of at least o­ne of them deprives others of life and society becomes impossible. This scientific theoretical proof finds confirmation in the whole human history, in which no o­ne, nowhere and never, has observed a society devoid of at least o­ne of the four spheres of its production. Therefore, and the other premise of SPHERON's argumentation in their theory is also scientific and meeting the scientific requirements, which is confirmed by statistical, empirical evidence of Russian SPHERONS and other institutions in the second chapter of Global Peace Science http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf . It is also confirmed by the wide use and development of the paradigm of four spheres of social production in different versions in the works of many social scientists after Smith and Marx: Vilfredo Pareto, Max Weber, Robert Park, Florian Znaniecki, Talcott Parsons, Fernand Braudel, Alvin Toffler, Pierre Bourdieu and many others. Of all scientific paradigms of the structure of social production, this is the most widely recognized; it is used in programs and calculations of almost all countries, national governments and in international institutions but in different modifications.

However, this paradigm has not yet become universally accepted. Together with it, in the social sciences, other variants of the social production structure are used, albeit rarely and sporadically, which reduce it to either three or five or more spheres. But none of them has received such wide recognition, evidence and application, as a tetrad/fourfold paradigm. In any case, while the possibility of other multidimensional models of the spheral structure of social production exists purely theoretically, until then there is an a priori assumption of other social structures than the four-dimensional o­ne adopted in the SPHERONS’ theory. In these cases, in the future, it is possible to recognize not four, but three or five, etc. SPHERONS. But in any case, the notion of the eternal societal global structure of society at all levels will remain. This is, from my point of view, the main scientific achievement and discovery of the SPHERONS’ theory. Its development in the tetrad version will reveal its advantages and preferences in comparison with its other possible versions. As any scientific theory, in view of the infinite scientific knowledge of its object, it cannot be recognized as an eternal indisputable scientific truth, so the SPHERONS’ theory cannot be it and it does not pretend to it, calling for its confirmation, addition and development by the new scientists and new scientific institutions.

The SPHERONS’ theory as a global societal structure has key importance in cognition and solution of the global ecological problem, in the preservation of humankind as Noosphere, consciously harmoniously interacting with the biosphere and the entire environment, with all nature as a whole. The SPHERONS’ theory makes it possible to understand humanity as a single whole social organism, regardless of its transitory private classes of PARTONS and private autonomous states predatory exploiting nature in their selfish national or corporate interests, without caring for the preservation of the planet Earth. The private structures and institutions are irresponsible to nature - this is proven by past centuries of experience, which threatens the survival of entire ecosystem of the Earth. o­nly a global and harmonious societal structure of SPHERONS can be a single and solid foundation to govern environmental risks and solving a corresponding challenge o­n a global scale.

I hope and I am recommending the global project for survival and longevity of humankind to be undertaken by best of the best humans. I think present proposal for the SPHERONS’ theory and the protection of Humankind, Noosphere, Nature, Space and Environment along with other achievements could allow survival and longevity of humankind o­n the road to the sustainable future or the sustainability of humankind, which in short definition is:

The Sustainable Future or the Sustainability of Humankind is a harmonious and complementary coexistence of the SPHERONS’Global Community of Humankind and the nature or the biosphere of the planet Earth.

Prof. Timi Ecimovic (1941)

Dr. Med (1966). The active member of the European Academy of Sciences & Arts – EASA since 2002, Dr of the Environmental Sciences (hc) Ansted University, Penang, Malaysia (2002), The Professor and the Chair of Environmental Sciences, Ansated University, Penang, Malaysia (2004), The Rector of the World Philosophical Forum - WPF University, Athens, Greece since 2011, The Founder and the Chairman of the World Thinker’s Forum, (2001), the Vive-President of the WPF, Athens, Greece, (2011), The elected member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences – WAAS (March 2014), The Professor of the Civil Knowledge of the Universal State of the Earth – USE and WPF (2016), The Citizen of the Earth XXI (2012), The Aristocrat of the Earth XXI (2015), The Emeritus Citizen of the Korte Village and Izola Municipality, Slovenia, EU, 21st June 2014, The Slovenian Special Recognition Horus for the Social Responsibility, (2015), the Diploma in Philosophy, Cambridge, UK, 2016 and recognized in The Marquise Who’sWho , USA, 2016. – Please see “Profile” at www.institut-climatechange.si and personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=749

Zg. Medoši, Korte, 15^th March, 2017

Ref.: The review of the GHA – The Spherons of Harmony