Frequently asked questions

How will the ideas in the OrganicDesign website help make the world a better place?

Our content and system covers three main aspects with respect to this question:

First we try and gain an objective understanding of the current global problems by doing dedicated research and identifying common patterns and principles so that solutions we find will be as widely applicable as possible. An important point about such research is that we must look into actual mechanisms and their bottom lines to build up a reliable objective view of the state of affairs, not a view based on opinion.

Second we're working on a specification defining how organisations can work together as a single network in alignment with a set of values which do not suffer from the problems we've identified such as the economic bottom line problem.

Third, our content includes tools that help us move from the current state we found ourselves in now, to a global society operating in this new way. These tools allow our system to be deployed easily by anyone by using a seed mechanism and making the knowledge as accessible as possible.

What is OrgancDesign's main goal?

To build the Platform network which is a global network of organisations that operate together as one in alignment with the core values and manifesto to consistently increase the well-being of all sentient beings.

What spiritual tradition or principles does the project follow?

Various members of OrganicDesign have studied Taoism, Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism amongst other traditions. However, categorising the spiritual truth into one tradition or another leads to trouble because every tradition exhibits notable teachers and scriptures making statements which are not in accord with the spritiual truth or are grossly misinterpreted, for example that we are all "born in sin". Instead we have tried in our manifesto to distil a collection of values that are common to all traditions and embody them into the bottom line of all organisations operating in alignment with our specification.

How can people get involved?

At the most general level, anyone can be involved simply by being dedicated to the spiritual path and persistently trying to implement it using their own skills, position, connections and resources. mm But more specifically, how to get involved in OrganicDesign's implementation of this path involves the following steps:

• Read the Manifesto, the Charter and Values and see if you feel aligned with them.
• If so, asked questions create an account
• Read thOrganisations can be set up based on templates (also called classes, prototypes or patterns). In the same way that presentation templates can be re-used over a variety of articles, so organisational templates can be reused and refined by many organisations, businesses, projects and groups. Templates form from established patterns of day-to-day use, the software is an environment for managing the re-use and evolution of such patterns. Organisations working in this way are called nodal organisations.
• Read some of the links in the help to learn about wiki's, MediaWiki and how to use them
• Start your own user page introducing yourself, your interests and your skills
• Keep an eye on the recent changes, site news and browse the concepts in the glossary
• Use your watchlist to stay abreast of changes to articles and discussions of interest
• Help us improve our content and begin or partake in the discussions about various aspects that are going on in articles talk pages

From this point on the path into more involvement will evolve naturally and eventually lead to a specific role in various OrganicDesign projects.