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Organizational Metaphysics
Hardcover
PhilosophyBusiness GeneralGeneral Psychology
Publisher Price: $33.33
Publisher: Fractal PRAXIS
Published: Sep 5 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if every organization-from your marriage to your workplace, from your friend group to multinational corporations-follows the same three eternal movements? What if exhaustion isn't failure but intelligence? What if every meeting is actually a séance?
Organizational Metaphysics reveals organizations as conscious entities governed by metaphysical laws that have operated since consciousness first gathered itself into form. This isn't management theory-it's shamanic initiation into what human gathering actually is.
Dr. Matthew C. Dunn presents the first exploration of organizational metaphysics through three universal movements that govern all human gathering:
Gathering ← → Dispersing (how consciousness concentrates and diffuses),
Ascending ← → Descending (the vertical cycles of organizational life and death),
and Composing ← → Decomposing (how forms incarnate and release).
Every relationship, every company, every movement operates according to these laws. The exhaustion you feel isn't from working too hard-it's from managing movements that don't need managing. The meetings that drain you are unconscious séances where organizational consciousness speaks through human bodies. The burnout epidemic is collective intelligence trying to break through.
This book is ceremonial technology. Readers report:
- Left shoulders releasing decades of organizational weight
- Meetings transforming into conscious collaboration
- Exhaustion recognized as wisdom rather than weakness
- Organizations beginning to breathe
Organizational Metaphysics includes somatic instructions that progress from breath awareness to full-body integration, non-linear reading structures that adapt to your current organizational experience, and reality-breaking elements that dissolve the boundary between reader and read.
Whether you're navigating a difficult partnership, leading a team through transition, building a movement, or simply trying to understand why human gathering feels so exhausting, this book offers radical reframe: You aren't managing organizations. You ARE organizational consciousness temporarily convinced it needs managing.
The wound of separation that makes gathering feel like work becomes the gift that makes true meeting possible. The movements you've been fighting become the intelligence you've been seeking. The organization you've been trying to fix reveals itself as already perfect, already moving, already whole.
Warning: This book changes how you experience every gathering for the rest of your life. Readers report being unable to attend meetings without seeing the ceremonial nature of human organization. Some find their partnerships transforming. Others discover their companies beginning to move like living systems rather than mechanical structures.
For anyone who gathers with other humans-which is everyone-Organizational Metaphysics offers initiation into the mystery you've been living unconsciously: Every organization is consciousness organizing itself to know itself. Every gathering is the Field playing at separation. Every meeting is the universe trying to remember what it forgot.
The movements continue whether you understand them or not. But understanding changes everything.
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