System: I've always been drawn to math, systems and patterns. Buckminster Fuller was an early intellectual hero for me. He admired seafarers who led lives outside the control of kings and armies. He strove to bring something new into the world. In addition to introducing new ways of thinking about the workings of the world, he sparked my interest in the Platonic solids and his Vector Equilibrium... My father introduced me to the ideas of John Bennett, and through him, Gurdjieff. Bennett studied the fundamental aspects of the monad, dyad, triad etc. (systems of one, two, three or more [components is not quite the right word]) that hold true through their various incarnations. Via the Bennett community I met Anthony Blake (who studied with both Bennett and physicist David Bohm), and attended a number of the events he pulled together in and near Baltimore a few decades ago, when I lived relatively close by. I met Richard (Dick) Knowles at one of Tony's gatherings. His Process Enneagram..