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HUGH MARTIN is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. He has appeared on numerous talk shows, led seminars at many colleges and corporations, and spoken at numerous professional conferences and colloquia. Mr. Martin is president of the FINRA-registered securities brokerage firm, Hugh Martin Securities, and of the SEC-registered investment advisory firm, Hugh Martin & Co. Hugh is also president and co-founder of the life planning and counseling firm, Whole Life Counseling. AMALIA KAYE MARTIN ('Kaye') is an early-education specialist, a gifted natural medicine practitioner, and an instructor in nutrition and natural medicine at Baumann College.

The Human Odyssey: Our Journey of Life from Infancy to Eternity

#5B: The Specific Processes of Growth

Hugh & Kaye Martin

The 'Processes' of Growth are all the methods and techniques we use to grow and develop. Such Processes are of two types: General and Specific. The 'Specific Processes' are all the specialized Methods, Techniques, Therapies, Practices, Programs, Activities, Explorations, Studies, and Focused Experiences that move us along specific Stages, Realms, and Arenas of the Growth Continuum. Over the course of cultural evolution, we human beings have developed 35 Specific Processes to enable the perpetuation and progress of civilization. We divide those Processes into seven different Themes of emphasis:

• #1-6. Foundational Processes: The six Processes that are fundamental to all other Processes of Growth. Includes: Natural Nutrition, Holistic Health, Relationships & Marriage, Family Dynamics, etc.
• #7-10. Physical World Processes: The four Processes that engage us with material reality. Includes: Physical Activity, Life Experience, Natural Environments, etc.
• #11-17. Socio-Cultural Processes: The seven Processes that engage us with Groups of people – from pairs to whole cultures. Includes: Habits & Programming, Enterprise & Leadership, Values & Service, Archetype & Myth, etc.
• #18-23. Formal Investigation Processes: The six Processes that engage our thinking and reasoning capacities. Includes: Order & Structure, Technologies & Inventions, Logic & Reasoning, Science & Proof, etc.
• #24-28. Self-Expression Processes: The five Processes that enable us to express our inward reality in outward form. Includes: Language & Communication, Stories & Literature, Expressive Arts, etc.
• #29-33. Conscious Development Processes: The five Processes specifically designed to promote Growth and resolve problems. Includes Body Therapies, Psychotherapies, Spiritual Practices, etc.
• #34-35. Comprehensive Processes: The two Processes that combine and integrate all the other Processes of Growth. Includes: Holistic Environments and Integral Programs.

The Specific Processes comprise Domain #3B of the five Domains of the ADAPT Model of Human Development. Symbolically, they are the Sailing Ships of our Life Journey.

#5B: The Specific Processes of Growth

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Publication History “The Human Odyssey”

• The Human Odyssey, Our Journey of Life from Infancy to Eternity
  • Installment #1: Preliminaries & Introduction (October 2014)
  • Installment #1A Prologue and Epilogue: Reprieve from Death (November 2014)
  • Installment #2: Overview of the ADAPT/Life Journey Model (October 2014)
  • Installment #3: Dimensions of the Growth Continuum (October 2014)
  • Installment #4: Participants in the Growth Process (October 2014)
  • Installment #5A: The General Processes of Growth (November 2014)
  • Installment #5B: The Specific Processes of Growth (November 2014)
  • Installment #6: The Pathfinders of Growth (November 2014)
  • Installment #7: The Systems of Growth (December 2014)
  • Installment #8-9: Resources, Conclusion, Cartoon Gallery, Epilogue (December 2014)

Publication History “Ken Wilber, Joseph Campbell & The Meaning of Life"”

• Ken Wilber, Joseph Campbell & the Meaning of Life
  • OVERVIEW: Advanced Sections omitted from Introductory Version
  • Installment #1. PRELIMINARIES & INTRODUCTION: Omitted Sections. (January 2015)
  • Installment #2. System #6: PERSPECTIVE GROWTH. (February 2015)
  • Installment #3. System #7: EVOLUTION & INVOLUTION.
  • Installment #4. System #8: SPIRITUAL GROWTH.
  • Installment #5. DOMAINS & SECTORS: OMITTED SECTIONS.
  • Installment #6. CONCLUSION: OMITTED SECTIONS.