28. 2023

The first twenty-seven articles covering Dr. Ackoff’s 1993 presentation, which gives the best explanation I’ve ever heard for how we got to where we are today, can be summarized by:

The ONLY way to improve ANYTHING is to begin at the BIGGEST system and work backwards!

Dr. Ackoff had stated the biggest system was “God” (the First Cause) and his presentation showed the source of all the flaws from the Renaissance Age to our current Age are due to our inability to understand/define God, yet in 2007, I published a book (Modeling God) which gave the non-contradictory definition for God.

The previous article showed I decided to go onto LinkedIN in 2019 to see if there was someone in the world who also had the revelation that the key to Dissolving every problem begins with Modeling God.? The article ended with:

LinkedIN made it possible for me to connect with and coach amazing people from three continents, all the major religions, various industries…and I did it without charging money, which is why everything accelerated in 2023…

This article will look at what has happened since the beginning of 2023.

Dean Wallace invited Jonathan, myself, and our wives to come to Dundee, Scotland and speak at a Powerhouse workshop. Even though it lasted over 6 hours, it felt like 45 minutes and people stayed for an additional two hours. The entire room was in flow! It looked like Dean had found his community (families), but I told him it felt like church. Dean laughed and said I was wrong.

In 2021, when Dean learned his unique process for flow, he appreciated it, however, he asked me if there was something more. Then, he asked me about God. After a series of discussions, Dean began theology training with Jonathan and Joel.

When we came back from Scotland, I was contacted by a documentarian who wanted my permission to tell my story. Others had asked throughout the years because the story is so unbelievable, but I always refused. However, there was a new group of pastors beginning to defame both Jonathan’s church and Joel’s church because of their affiliation with me. When this new group of pastors realized we could own their churches and ministries for the defamation they had already committed, they put lawyers on retainer and waited for us to sue.?

Instead of suing, I realized it may be time to let someone tell my story in order to end this destructive cycle of abuse. I told Mr. Bjorkman to watch the video series “How John Knows What He Knows” in the “Truth in the 2020’s” YouTube channel and then tell me what story he wants to tell.

After he watched the series twice, he stated he wanted to tell the story of the abuse the pastors did to me. He asked if I was okay with him interviewing all the people who attacked me to get their perspective. I told him I wish he would, but I don’t know if anyone is willing to go on record today. I had learned a lot about bullying (having just finished writing the series “The Hypocrisy of Bullying” on LinkedIN) and I think having these bullies relive the bullying they did was going to be something they all want to forget.

The FCEMF (ministry that publicly defamed me in 2009) reached out to me and asked if I would attend an event where they publicly confessed and repented to me! The timing coincided with my interview for the documentary as well as the reissue of Modeling God!

I taped my interview for the documentary. The idea was for the director to see who I mentioned in my answers and then reach out to those people for interviews and continue from there. Even though I have no say in the making of the documentary and will receive no compensation, Mr. Bjorkman has been very easy to work with and we saw eye-to-eye.

For example, the director did not have a hard and fast script. He had an outline and wanted to see where the story took him. I love documentaries and I know the best ones are 60% structured and 40% reliant on the unplanned events that happen while the documentary is being created. Was the public confession by the FCEMF the thing we didn’t plan for?

Another example of seeing eye-to-eye was his title for the documentary “Heretic: The Man Who Modeled God”. As we’ve seen with this series, the word heretic is perfect because I have beliefs different from the majority. The role of a heretic (or creative person) is to get people back to the truth so they can excel. There is nothing inherently wrong or evil about the term heretic.

The FCEMF event occurred in front of a packed house and I was able to share the video on LinkedIN because Mr. Bjorkman taped it. In fact, one of the two people who signed the 2009 FCEMF public letter defaming me, sent an email stating it was wrong to have written that email in the first place! One of the last things I shared was what I was planning on doing in the future. In addition to finishing the Modeling God series with two more books, I had two main goals.?

First, I wanted to get Dr. Ackoff’s philosophy out to the world. He was a heretic who didn’t live long enough to see people appreciate his work. I feel I have a special understanding of his work as I believe I’m the only synthesis systems thinker in the world since his death. I also believe the only way for the world to get better is for us to Dissolve our problems, because Solving them is making everything worse.

The second goal is to share my story of being bullied so that I can help others learn how to Dissolve bullying. I had no concrete plan for either of these and apparently I didn’t need to have one!

In a matter of weeks, I met Mital Kinderkhedia. She had been bullied to such a high degree, she referred to it as mobbing. I realized that I had also been mobbed! We have been working together for the past year writing a book and taping a podcast on mobbing!

Again, just weeks later, I wrote a comment on a post about being the only synthesis systems thinker and when I handled an issue on the thread in a fashion that caused people to calm down, one of the people on the thread said that I ought to talk with Bill Bellows. After doing some research, I asked if they would introduce me and they did!

Bill Bellows is a former Deputy Director of the Deming Institute. He is President of InThinking Services (a company that thinks about thinking!) and he had a personal relationship with Dr. Ackoff. He began our first meeting by asking me if I went to Clarkson. It turns out Bill went to RPI. We went to rival schools! Not only did we have the same background, we are both Administrator-Teachers, so I found a mentor! Bill is the only person in the world who loves to talk about the one thing I love to talk about!

Mr. Bjorkman was given a list of over 100 names of people who attacked me over the last seventeen years. He wanted someone to appear on camera and explain why it was right to mob me. NO ONE agreed to be interviewed. One person said they would appear on camera if I signed a waiver saying I wouldn’t sue him. I signed the waiver and he still wouldn’t appear.

What’s the issue?

When people see this documentary, they are going to realize for the last seventeen years there was help available for themselves and their loved ones that would have repaired their mental and emotional health, and they were prevented from getting it. The audience is going to want to know who prevented this and the people responsible do not want to become the target of all this vitriol and examination. The reality is they already live with this guilt, pain, and fear. The best thing they could do is admit it and repair it, yet they want to privately fight it and publicly pretend it never happened.

After all, imagine telling a person who is getting help from me to stay away from me. However, shortly after they stop getting help from me they kill themselves. I used to say to people who were telling others not to get help from me, “I don’t have to be the one to help them. Are you going to make sure they get help?” Their answer would be, “No. I’m just going to make sure they don’t get help from you.”

By November 2023, not only did Dean and his family want to get baptized, Dean realized the community he REALLY wanted all along was a church. Jonathan and Joel went to Dundee and baptized their family in the River Tay on a late November morning.

Jonathan and Joel helped Dean get everything in order for their church and Dean invited his leaders to join a Modeling God book club that met weekly for sixteen weeks. I was one of eighteen people in the book club and it was very healing for me watching peoples’ lives transform.?

We went to Dundee for the final book club meeting and 100% of the people showed up in person. Mr. Bjorkman also sent a camera so a member of our contingent could get footage of not only the book club but the first service for RELIGHT Church. They also got footage of another round of baptisms in the River Tay in February!

A couple of months later, principal filming on the documentary was completed. There was even a website! I was asked back to film B-roll in June and a trailer for the documentary ought to be available soon. The debut has been set for June 2025. We now have a year for something to happen…

Dean and his wife Janine have been very public on social media about their personal journeys. People are getting help and apparently it caused a stir! However, in their case, the Dundee paper asked if they could interview them and attend a service. Once Rebecca Baird finished the article, she contacted me and said she didn’t think she could publish the article unless she talked to me. It seemed like everyone she talked to at the church mentioned me.

I did an hour long interview and I was very impressed with Ms. Baird. She is an example of what journalism ought to be. She asked tough questions and got both sides of the story, because people were attacking Dean and Janine just like they had attacked me. The difference is the press in Wisconsin would never bring the issue to the surface, so it festered beneath the surface and people died.

In fact, not only did Ms. Baird publish both sides, she even got a response from Dean about the claims made against him and RELIGHT church! Here is the article: New Dundee Church Baptising People in the Tay. (It costs one pound to read it.) Dundee is the same size as the community that attacked me. Hmmm…

Here is a church getting the same initial response from a community as what I received. Is their ability to get their message out through social media and the press going to make a difference? Are cooler heads going to prevail because of the public discussion? For example, one observant bystander even asked why are people so mad that others are getting help? When information is restricted, it can cause people to believe no one sees the atrocities they are committing…

The main reason all of this happened on LinkedIN has to do with understanding the actual Biggest System, the REAL key to correcting the flaws since the Renaissance Age…

…and we will cover the Biggest System in the next article.

Link to Next Article: 29. The Biggest System

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