Arthur M. Young

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Arthur M. Young
Born
Arthur Middleton Young

3 November 1905 (1905-11-03)
Paris, France
Died30 May 1995 (1995-05-31) (aged 89)
Berkeley, California
Spouse(s)Priscilla Page
Ruth Forbes Young

Arthur Middleton Young (November 3, 1905 – May 30, 1995) was an American

Bell Helicopter's first helicopter, the Model 30, and inventor of the stabilizer bar used on many of Bell's early helicopter designs. He founded the "Institute for the Study of Consciousness" in Berkeley in 1972. Young advocated process philosophy, an attempt to integrate the realm of human thought and experience with the realm of science so that the concept of universe is not limited to that which can be physically measured. Young's theory embraces evolution and the concept of the great chain of being. He has influenced such thinkers as Stanislav Grof and Laban Coblentz
.

Biography

Young controlling a model helicopter he built in 1941, photograph by Joseph Janney Steinmetz

Arthur was the son of Eliza Coxe and

Philadelphia landscape painter Charles Morris Young. He was interested in developing a comprehensive theory of reality from an early age. He felt that to acquire the intellectual tools needed for such rigorous study, he should first develop an understanding of mathematics and engineering. With this decision he was following a career path similar to that of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who was a mathematician before he developed the first process philosophy. Thus after graduation from Princeton University in 1927 Young searched for a suitable invention to develop. In 1928 he returned to his father's farm in Radnor, Pennsylvania, to begin twelve solitary years of efforts to develop the helicopter
into a useful device.

Young's private experiments with helicopter design had mostly involved small scale models. After twelve years on his own using the models, he took his results and models to the

M*A*S*H movie and television series and was so successful that it continued to be manufactured through 1974. A design as well as a utilitarian success, it was added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art of New York City
in 1984.

Young had become profoundly disturbed by the development of nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War and decided that humanity needed a new philosophical paradigm.

In August 1946 Young recorded in his notes the idea of the psychopter – the helicopter as the "winged self", a metaphor for the human spirit.

Edward Longstreth Medal.[2] In 1952, Young and his wife Ruth organized the Foundation for the Study of Consciousness in Philadelphia
, the forerunner of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness.

Also in 1952, Young and Ruth participated in seances conducted by Andrija Puharich's Roundtable Foundation.[3]

Marriages

Young married Priscilla Page in 1933. He was divorced from Priscilla in 1948, and later that year, married artist

Ruth Forbes Paine (1903–1998) of the Boston Forbes family, a great-granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the mother of Michael Paine. Ruth Forbes was formerly married to George Lyman Paine Jr. Their son Michael Paine married Ruth Hyde Paine, a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's wife Marina, who was living with her at the time of the JFK assassination.[4]

Death

On 30 May 1995, Arthur Young died of cancer at age 89, at his home in Berkeley, California.[5]

Works

  • (ed. with Charles Musès) Consciousness and reality; the human pivot point. New York, Outerbridge & Lazard; distributed by Dutton, 1972.
  • The Geometry of Meaning. New York : Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, 1976.
  • The Reflexive Universe: evolution of consciousness. New York: Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, 1976.
  • The Bell Notes: A Journey from Physics to Metaphysics. New York: Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, 1979.
  • Science and Astrology; The Relationship Between the Measure Formulae and the Zodiac. Anodos Foundation, 1988.
  • Nested Time: An Astrological Autogiography. Anodos Foundation, 2004.

See also

References

  1. ^ A.M. Young, The Bell Notes, p. 67, 106
  2. ^ "Franklin Laureate Database - Edward Longstreth Medal 1949 Laureates". Franklin Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  3. ISBN 9780316349376
    .
  4. House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979), and the Dallas Police Department
    .
  5. ^ obituary, New York Times, June 3, 1995

External links

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