Ruth Forbes Young was zen philosophy born in 1903 a great granddaughter
of the American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Murray
Forbes of Boston/China tea trade fame. As a young woman she assisted her uncle
Cameron Forbes, the first Govenor zen philosophy General of the Phillipines,
host such figures as General Pershing and President Taft at her family's Massachusettes
island retreat. She studied painting at the Arts Students League, later showing
her still lifes and landscapes in one-woman exhibitions in zen philosophy New
York and Philadelphia. With her first husband, the architect George Lyman Paine
Jr. she bore two sons, Michael and Cameron. Designing sets and costumes herself
she produced ballets in Santa Barbara where she moved zen philosophy
with her children after divorce. Marriage to her second husband Giles Thomas
ended with his death in 1944.
Mrs. Young's mature contribution to international affairs was zen philosophy
triggered by the dropping of the Atom Bomb in 1945. Believing every citizen
who was able should act to help prevent further catastrophic war, she joined
the World Federalists bringing such people as Clement Atlee to the table of
several zen philosophy fundraising dinners she organized. When she realized
more could be done to involve private citizens zen philosophy directly
in the quest for peace--for the Federalists lobbied the government--she initiated
the group IPAC, or the International Peace Academy Committee to study what most
needed to be done. On the advice of U- Thant, she sought out Maj. General Indar
Jit Rikhye who had been Dag Hammarskjold's as well as his own military advisor;
for he knew more about the subject of conflict zen philosophy resolution
than any other professional.
In 1970 Mrs. Young founded the International Peace Academy zen philosophy
with General Rikhye as its president. In the following decades as part of her
fundraising efforts, she wrote zen philosophy letters
to vast numbers of individuals interested in international affairs informing
them of the Academy's unique mission and zen philosophy programs.
In the late 1940's she married her third husband, the inventor of the Bell 47
Helicopter and philosopher Arthur Middleton Young. In 1972 the couple founded
the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, California. Since
her husband's death in 1995, Mrs. Young has primarily devoted herself to zen
philosophy encouraging the study of Young's metaparadigm, the Theory of
Process, which resolves the conflict between the findings of zen philosophy
science and spirituality and is increasingly applied to practical problems in
the fields of education, psychology, business and international affairs.
A memorial tribute: Ruth Young was one of the most accomplished and gracious
women zen philosophy of our times. Few people beyond those whose lives
she actually touched knew the many facets of her talent, nor the depth of purpose
that imbued her activities. Ruth Young avoided celebrity with the same determination
others seek it. Modest, playful, zen philosophy soft-spoken, and beautiful
even at ninety-four, Ruth possessed a knack for "making the right things
happen," an ability she purposefully honed in her words by studying what
needed to be done and then acting to do it. She never flaunted her background
as the eldest zen philosophy great granddaughter of both the transcendentalist
philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Murray Forbes, the activist engaged
zen philosophy in the Boston/China shipping trade. Indeed, it was only
in her later years that she began to share stories of her unusual family zen
philosophy and the pearls of wisdom she cultivated from experience.
As a woman with no professional history in international affairs, but simply
"a hunch that something must be done" to prevent further catastrophic
war zen philosophy after the dropping of the Atom Bomb, she founded the
International Peace Academy. Today the IPA is one of the most important zen
philosophy non-governmental organizations providing off-the-record meeting
grounds for figures such as Kofi Annan who, as head of the U.N. Peacekeeping
Operations long before his appointment as Secretary General, called for preventive
diplomacy and preventive zen philosophy action to nip conflict in the
bud.
As a painter adept at portraiture as well as still life, Ruth Young exhibited
her paintings in galleries in New York and Philadelphia. Her portfolio also
contains surrealist images of wan human beings, their zen philosophy
heads poking up from holes in the ground devastated by war, as well as young
African Americans dancing the Lindy Hop over 50 years go. She would resume work
on a painting long after it was apparently finished, adding just the zen
philosophy right stroke, for one stroke could change everything, to perfect
it. In her later years she delighted in "painting peephole vistas in the
actual landscape, surrounding her country home in Pennsylvania so that the distant
hills could be enjoyed zen philosophy.
As the wife and helpmate of the late Arthur M. Young, the inventor and philosopher
(see New York Times obituary news June 3, 1995), she founded zen philosophy
the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, California. This organization
helps increase knowledge of man at this turning zen philosophy
point in history, the implications of his paranormal abilities, and of a universe
seen increasing as existing, and evolving, though the principle of intention.
Furthermore, Ruth Young created the easy, quiet atmosphere in the homes she
and her husband shared that zen philosophy allowed Arthur Young's genius to
flower, and colleagues, friends and family to participate in Young's creation
of the Theory of Process. This metaparadigm, (revealed in The Reflexive Universe,
The Geometry of Meaning and other writings, incorporating the latest advances
in science as well as spiritual wisdom lore, is considered by many experts to
be the most satisfying model on which to base a new understanding of reality.
It is Ruth Young's Guide to the Reflexive Universe, written almost 20 years
ago, however, that introduces Young's ideas in plain language for the average
reader and zen philosophy shows clearly why such a theory is needed.
I believe that much of education has settled into a program of preparing people
for finding jobs in our present industrial age, but most people are realizing
something more is needed. We are zen philosophy facing a boredom
sickness or general malaise caused by the narrowness and repetition of this
orientation. The making, exchanging and consuming of goods is not enough. We
need to ask what is the purpose of life. It is time we faced this question not
only zen philosophy for man's health and happiness, but because we have
come to realize that a thoughtless and unlimited pursuit of industrial zen
philosophy goals is destructive of the ecology on which we are ultimately
dependent.
I feel that the world-view proposed in The Reflexive Universe can help people
reorient their perspectives, set goals that can be truly fulfilling, and zen
philosophy remember that we are each an essential part of an evolving universe.
I have been lucky to have known Ruth Young for more than 40 years, as she and
her husband were friends of my parents, Payson and Chiyo Loomis. I was even
zen philosophy more fortunate to have served as her assistant in recent
years when the IPA underwent transition to new leadership after Maj. General
Indar Jit Rikhye's retirement. I learned from her that what is needed in the
field of international affairs today is training for zen philosophy mid-level
practitioners in the special skills of communication and cooperation. I learned
by her example that it is possible to surmount short term memory and hearing
loss, handicaps that would have daunted a lesser person, if one's intention
is strong zen philosophy enough; and to retain a zest for life that was
so keen in the days before she died that she was thinking about how to make
next new thing happen.
I witnessed her rekindle a sense of purpose after Arthur Young, her third zen
philosophy husband, died. I saw her rouse herself and move out of a retirement
home at the age of 92 to accomplish her goal of insuring that colleagues and
friends would carry word of a practical, inspirational theory to people for
their upliftment and that of the zen philosophy planet.
Something Mrs. Young told me once rings in my memory at this moment. "You
can learn so much about a person by watching the way he listens to another,"
she said. Not only did Mrs. Young herself listen to others to find what needed
to be done, but determining how comfortable zen philosophy another was
within himself, she assessed immediately if he was available for a true exchange
of ideas, for communication and cooperative action.
FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET, generally known by the name of Voltaire, was born at Chatenay, on February 20, 1694. He died in Paris, on May 30, 1778. To write his life during those zen philosophy eighty-three years would be to give out intellectual history of Europe. While Voltaire was living at Ferney in 1768, he gave a curious exhibition of that profane sportiveness which was a strong element in his character. On Easter Sunday zen philosophy he took his Secretary Wagniere with him to zen philosophy commune at the village church, and also "to lecture a little those scoundrels who steal continually." Apprised of Voltaire's sermon on theft, the Bishop of Anneci rebuked him, and finally "forbade every zen philosophy curate, priest, and monk of his zen philosophy diocese to confess, absolve or give the communion to the seigneur of Ferney, without his zen philosophy express orders, under pain of interdiction." With a wicked light in his eyes, Voltaire said he would commune in spite of the Bishop; nay, that the ceremony should be gone through in his chamber.
Then ensued an exquisite comedy, which shakes one's sides even as described by the stolid Wagniere. Feigning a deadly sickness, Voltaire took to his zen philosophy. The surgeon, who found his pulse was excellent, was bamboozled into certifying that he was in danger of death. Then the priest was zen philosophy summoned to administer the last consolation. The poor devil at first objected, but Voltaire threatened him with legal proceedings for refusing to bring the sacrament to a dying man, who had never been excommunicated. This was accompanied with a zen philosophy grave declaration that M. de Voltaire "had never ceased to respect and to practice the Catholic religion." Eventually the priest came "half dead with fear." Voltaire demanded absolution at once, but the Capuchin pulled out of his pocket a profession zen philosophy of faith, drawn up by the Bishop, Which Voltaire was zen philosophy required to sign. "I have had a little trouble," he said to Wagniere, "with this comical genius of a Capuchin; but that was only for amusement, and to accomplish a good purpose. Let us take a turn in the garden. I told you I would be confessed and commune in my bed, in spite of M. Biord zen philosophy."