Metaphysics of Buckminster Fuller: How to Let the Universe Work for You!

by Phillip M. Pierson

Many books have been written about the life and work of Buckminster Fuller. He was unquestionably one of the most talented and brilliant people of modern times. However, no one until now has looked in depth at his metaphysical view of life. This book, Metaphysics of Buckminster Fuller, does that in a clear and interesting manner. Bucky, as he liked to be called, is known around the world for being responsible for over three hundred thousand geodesic domes that have been constructed. One of his inventions is an important part of the Space Laboratory. While he took great pride in this work and much more, he desired most of all to prove that the only realities in life are metaphysical and not physical. His metaphysical view of life allowed him to give all his energy to creating physical tools to make life easier without giving any thought to "making a living" or how to afford to do creative work. He believed that the metaphysical principles operating in Universe would provide anyone what was needed if they chose to give their talents totally to the welfare of humanity. He documented how well this worked for him, and those records are kept today in a special collection at Stanford University. He said repeatedly that the principles he used to succeed would work for anyone.The book tells the story of Bucky's early inability to be successful for himself and others. He was so filled with a sense of failure that he considered suicide at the age of 32. He had a special experience at that point that led him to commit "egocide" instead of suicide, and from that point on, his life took on a totally new energy and power.Because he knew that life is not a physical process, but rather a metaphysical one, he had much to share on such subjects as life and death, reality, evolution, what is life's purpose, and other basic life issues. He supports with hard-core physical evidence everything that he shares about these subjects. No one had a better intellectual grasp of our physical universe. No one has better translated that knowledge into metaphysical wisdom.Bucky spoke to over 400 Universities and Colleges around the world and received 47 honorary doctorate degrees. He had a great love for the young people he lectured to and felt that the hope for the future of humankind was in the hands of the young. He based this on their receptivity to the metaphysical insights he shared and their willingness to break free from measuring life by "what's in it for me." I think we are seeing this all over the world—young people are standing up to dictatorships and willing risking their lives for what they believe. The book deals with Bucky's strong conviction that power groups that measure life and goals with their brains and not their minds dominate the world. He makes it very clear that the brain and the mind are not the same. He spoke about this, with great authority, to a national convention of neurosurgeons and the book shares some of that talk. It was a talk, because this amazing man never prepared speeches.Bucky felt, as do many other thinkers of recent times, that the humanity is at a critical point. This book shares his clear insight about what makes our times so critical, and how can we turn it into a time of positive transformation. It is a book that is written in a manner that anyone can understand and profit. It is a book to be shared with as many people as possible for their individual understanding and to create a metaphysical energy wave to change the present direction of human evolution.

Genres: Philosophy

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 3, 2014

Reviews

[Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs · Rating 4 out of 5]

A REVOLUTIONARY little book. It was one of the very first ones I bought with my very first trusty Kindle. I loved the book.

It may change your life as it changed mine. It gave me a vital inner dynamic which is in not the least way, if carefully managed, incompatible with my medication.

Once you see Bucky’s secret, you’ll never stop growing. Read it and see. And when I picked it up in 2018, it was agreeably inexpensive.

Fuller - inventor of amazing structures, physical and spiritual, like the Geodesic Dome - was a lifelong innovator and invigorator of younger generations. His was a perpetually shining positive, can-do outlook on life. How come?

Well, he saw himself as a reborn light of inspiration.for those more practically down-at-the-mouth, like his beloved wife! In fact he loved her so much - was so eternally devoted to protecting and easing her into a safe harbour - that, shortly after she died, his main mission done, he too went to his reward.

And his outside work, so monumental in scope - what of that?

Well, it stems from his youthful coming-of-age crisis. His world was suddenly Black back then.

But suddenly, discovering the healing power of Altruism, he realized his life could thenceforth be best devoted to the Betterment of the Planet.

So, like me at twenty, and like James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life, he spent the rest of his devoted life trying to Lasso the Moon!

Yes, we were all Quixote's at whom the urbane world snickered.

But we achieved Peace at the End.

And it may not at your age seem like much to write home about -

But, when your life is leeched of meaning, as it was for me and him while young -

It's the Pot 'o Gold at the end of your long and busy Life's Rainbow.

[Luis Madeira · Rating 5 out of 5]

É um livro que vale muito a pena ler, pois dá a conhecer uma pessoa fantástica e que todos devemos conhecer melhor. Buckminster Fuller era uma pessoa que tinha um dom e que partilhou com imensas pessoas esse dom e que incrivelmente acaba por passar despercebido até agora na minha vida. No mínimo estranho...razão pela qual aconselho a leitura deste livro.