User:Carl Flygt

A year of graduate study in psychobiology at the University of California at Irvine convinced him that the real problem of consciousness was institutional, not biological, and he migrated to Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area in search of the New Age, made noteworthy by Stewart Brand's publication of the psychedelic Whole Earth Catalogs. He found work with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, but while there was unable to articulate what he felt must be a clear and simple solution to the production and maintenance of altered states of consciousness by socio-physiological methods.

He settled on a program of individual research including Chinese qigong, which he learned (and continues to study) with the well-known master Peng-Si Yu of Shanghai, China and his wife, Ou-Yang Min of Beijing. He was also impressed by the principles of neurolinguistic programming, by modern natural language philosophy, in particular the approach of John R. Searle at the University of California at Berkeley and by German idealism as exemplified ultimately by the Austro-Croatian clairvoyant and polymath Rudolf Steiner, but originally by the ethics of Immanual Kant, the dialectic of G.W.F. Hegel and the dialogs of Plato before them all.

Flygt's theory of conversation can be found in a book by Lindisfarne Books of Great Barrington, Massachusetts entitled Conversation: A New Theory of Language.