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Game: Synergetics as a Game:
"Energetic Geometry is, as mathematicians say, a game; and it is a game of solitaire I started playing in 1917. It is now no longer a game of solitaire. Certainly, I have many friends like Duncan (Stuart) who are playing the game with us and we find it very fruitful. When a game becomes fruitful, whereby you can get information from the game itself, one can transfer it to the larger game of life.
“Energetic Geometry started as a game before it had the nice name of Energetic Geometry. It started in 1917 when I was in the Navy and was interested in trying to give myself an additional education which I did not receive in college. I suppose the education I was trying to give myself would have arrived in very fine order if I would have had the chance of going on in college; and I assumed that what I began to discover in the game was territory that had been well covered by students long ago. In some instances that would seem to be the case. In other instances, it would seem that we have rediscovered arrangements of phenomena that, if they have been known to man, have long since been forgotten. I must say that when you play a game like this you get a strange feeling when you come into view of arrangements of components of your energetic Universe with which you are not at all familiar and”
