The primary purpose is the formulation, testing, and application of a general theory of systems. Founders of the ISSS were Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard, Margaret Mead, James Miller, and Anatol Rapoport. They felt that this aspect of reality was lost in the fragmentation of phenomema typical of the conventional disciplines. Sponsors multidisciplinary conferences and is planning a residential center for transpersonal education and trainings. Psybernet is an organization exploring depth psychology of the Internet.
Psyche is a Greek word for the soul and cybernetics is the study of information systems.
Psybernet is looking to ways of working and experiencing the psyche that are native to the Internet, and thus opening a new window to the soul. On this site you will find reading, resources and links to people and projects. Walter is the originator of this project, he is an individual and group psychotherapist, practicing in Christchurch, New Zealand. That person can then function in a way that is more life-affirming and authentic. Sufism developed a psychology more than a thousand years ago.