Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality

(Page Updated 5/19/25)

The Optima Bowling site opened in March of 2017. Now, a few iterations later, you can more easily find the soul, interest, and purpose that had to be mostly buried initially. The 1968 quest to unravel the mystery of humanity’s primary wicked problem of not understanding why this world is crazy continues. With Human Development, the profundity and simplicity of the declaration are now placed front and center in a fully energizing way. Today (May 12, 2025), Optima Bowling has committed to communicating this seemingly simple concept but complicated lifespan purpose of individual development of self-consciousness. Please enjoy yourself as you explore the site.

1. Back to the Beginning

Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality is based on the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control and is built out from there with five more systems-of-systems, forming a comprehensive, integrated ideological approach to livelihood development. The systemic, dynamic, cyclical design supported by the interlocking series of subsystems operates to move students and teachers through latent human potentialities to reach actualized performance activations. The design is a methodology created using insights from innovative coaching dynamics, systems, and theories from diverse intellectual traditions molded into a coherent, accessible model. This approach offers a resource for performance coaches, athletes, and anyone interested in self-realization through comprehensive, research-informed practices.

These lived episodes are the data-points that first signalled a pattern of uncontrolled perceptions.

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A Coherent, Accessible Model

Potentiality and Actuality encapsulates assured tension and possible harmony. Potentiality represents the vast, largely untapped capacity inherent in every human being. Actuality is the manifest expression of that potential through purposeful self-development and performance activations. At its core, the site is dedicated to self-research for self-development, a transformation movement from abstract possibilities to a tangible self-controlled lifespan performance. The research underlying this approach draws heavily on the foundational system, the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control.

2. How to Control Your Life

Humanity's shared purpose, to be practical, is the practice of lifespan performance and perceptual control to monitor one's livelihood developmental transition from ignoring worlds to working upon worlds. (BC Vann 2023)

The Foundation: Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control

Opening with the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control (LPPC model) provides the backbone for understanding why individuals perceive, interpret, and ultimately act upon the world around them. This internal system constantly examines the hierarchy of perceptual control sub-systems, from basic sensations to abstract perceptions. It demonstrates how layers of perceptions interact to produce behavior as the control of perceptions.

Here, raw observations are organized into information—principles that convert experience into predictable feedback loops.

Every performer's life begins with raw sensory inputs at the most fundamental level. Over time, basic inputs are organized into more complex forms of perception, such as intensity and configuration. As individuals grow and learn, their inner models of the world become increasingly refined. So, they begin integrating their concrete objective physical sensations and subjective abstract feelings and thoughts, and this ongoing interplay of what (perception inputs), how (wholeness level of development), and why (understanding) forms the basis of the human being's activity. The essential innate latent potential lifespan performance activations are gradually realized as the tiered perception control mechanisms become fine-tuned through experience and deliberate practice.

The LPPC model also reveals that performance is not a static state but a dynamic developmental process that unfolds over one's lifespan. The progression from potentiality to actuality requires continual adaptation and refinement of one's sensible abilities and essential qualities. This livelihood developmental process, this flow is central to understanding why coaches and athletes can learn self-control by following the principle that behavior is the control of perceptions.

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3. A Purposeful Life

The PIE: Coach-Play Perspective in Motion

The PIE: Coach-Play Perspective in Motion is a critical tool of Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality. This system concept expands on the traditional roles of coach and player by viewing them not as separate entities but as interdependent components of a dynamic system. From this perspective, the roles of teacher and student are in constant flux, each influencing the other in a way that bridges the gap between latent potential and actual performance activations. Here, we find the guiding principle of Performance as The Way of PIE (Purpose, Integrity, and Experience).

When information is practiced deliberately, it becomes knowledge: skilled, reversible patterns enacted by purpose, integrity, and experience.

Purpose: The why of performance, as a vision, informs training and competition to ensure a clear and compelling reason supporting the flow toward realization and reflects the inner drive and the potential that motivates individuals to strive for improvement that directs every goal to activation.
Integrity: As the how of one's existence, integrity represents an internal alignment. Physical conditioning, emotional awareness, and mental-level intelligence are wholly interwoven into an irrepressible fundamental order that aligns potentiality with structured, ethical, and effective practices focused on the potential wholeness of one's being (physical, emotional, and mental).
Experience: Embodies the external expression of one's internal state accounting for what, where, when, and who of performance activations, encompassing every interaction, every competitive engagement, and every practice session to validate and enrich the internal-external relationship. The tangible outcomes of The Way of PIE process are the lived reality that emerges when a potential is transformed into skillful action.

The interplay between these elements becomes especially significant from a Hybrid Coach-Play perspective. From this view, a coach is encouraged to adopt the hybrid approach, simultaneously being a teacher while actively participating in the creative process of their lifespan performance. By engaging in the systemic, cyclical, dynamic PIE movement, practitioners will develop beyond the rigid teacher-student dichotomy and instead embrace a fluid, reciprocal relationship where both teaching and learning are a continuous, energetic flow. This essential dynamic for converting potentiality into actuality relies on another quality, creating an environment where the best ideas and practices can emerge organically from the interaction of all participants.

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4. Performance Authentication

The four steps demonstrate how knowledge crystallizes into system-level competence, thick enough to authorize itself.

The Four Steps to Performance Authentication depicts the clear progressive transition of performance from its initial, fragmented, externally driven basic skills level to holistic self-initiated self-authorized excellence. The four phases, Performance Management, Performance Development, Performance Versatility, and Performance Optimization, represent distinct and measured steps on your way.

Performance Management: Learners are guided by structured pedagogy methods focusing on externally determined behaviors. The emphasis is on activating basic foundational skills and establishing clear, measurable goals. Although this phase relies heavily on external authority and guidance, it is essential for setting the foundation for further development.
Performance Development: The focus shifts toward andragogy self-directed learning, the beginning of greater self-responsibility for growth by using the external determined frameworks they have mastered to step toward a more independent practice. This phase reflects a growing recognition of one's inherent latent potentialities.
Performance Versatility: Arriving here marks a significant turning point. Applying heutagogy heuristics and autodidactic methods leads to adaptability and innovation. The transition from following prescribed methods to actively exploring new ways of solving problems, enhancing performance, and versatility is clearly expressed, driving actualized potential, where the boundaries between coach and player start to blur in the light of self-guided mastery.
Performance Optimization: The full realization of potentiality. In this phase, performance is authentically optimized through physical, emotional, and mental levels of perceptual feedback. As an Integrated Self, the individual achieves self-initiated self-authorization, where performance continuously works through the will to unity and embodies the activation of potentiality and actuality.

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5. Systemic Levels of Being Human

Integrating competence across physical, emotional, and mental-causal strata yields comprehension—awareness of the system that is doing the controlling.

The Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality ideology also includes the Systemic Levels of Being Human (Physical Organism-Etheric, Emotional Repulsive-Attractive, and Mental-Causal).

Physical Organism-Etheric: Here, the tangible, material aspects of human existence, as they relate to physical health, coordination, and the embodied experience of performance; this level is crucial because the body and the energies that flow through it serve as the primary vehicle through which potential is expressed and actualized.
Emotional Repulsive-Attractive: This level describes the affective dimensions of human life. Emotions are discernable as transient states and powerful forces that hinder or propel performance. The model recognizes that effective performance requires emotional balance: the ability to control repulsive and attractive emotional energies. In this sense, emotional intelligence becomes critical to the overall potentiality and actuality process.
Mental-Causal: We are talking about measurable levels of intelligence. At this level, individuals form models of the world, integrating sensory data with abstract concepts that reveal a coherent understanding of reality. The mental-causal being is essential for planning and executing complex actions and adapting to new challenges.

These three levels highlight the importance of viewing human potentiality as a multidimensional phenomenon, where physical, emotional, and mental capabilities work in concert to produce high-level performance integrity.

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6. Hybridization of Ideological Streams

It is essential to situate current practices within a broader historical and ideological context to self-realize the actuality of potentiality. The hybridized ideological stream demarcated by Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality invites users to consider how ideas from the past, present, and future converge to inform contemporary practices. The model identifies three ideological streams: Past-Stream, Mainstream, and Future-Stream.

The Past-Stream draws upon time-honored wisdom and practices that have shaped traditional approaches to performance and development. These innate but mostly ignored historical insights can offer valuable lessons that continue to resonate in some modern coaching methods. But by acknowledging foundational principles that have guided human endeavor for centuries, practitioners are reminded of the enduring nature of certain truths.
The Mainstream represents current best practices and established methods validated through research and real-world application. It reflects the collective experience of contemporary practitioners who have refined their techniques through trial and error and systematic study. This stream bridges the historical and the innovative, ensuring reliable and effective practices.
The Future-Stream, meanwhile, is the realm of innovation and emerging ideas. It challenges the conventional wisdom of the present by exploring novel approaches to performance and self-development. This forward-looking stream is crucial for ensuring that the system remains dynamic and adaptable, continuously pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

Comprehension widens into historical and futuristic context, revealing that self-development is neither new nor complete.

Synthesizing these three ideological streams creates a hybrid model rooted in tradition and open to innovation. This synthesis is a powerful tool for the development of latent potential into actualized performance, as it encourages the continuous integration of past insights, current practices, and future possibilities.

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7. Human Development

The Evolution of Coaching, considered through a human development lens, appears less a static craft than a circulating current that thickens, bifurcates, and re-converges each time collective insight about the human condition advances. Whenever a culture revises its knowledge, comprehension, and understanding of why individuals mature, the practical art that guides maturation realigns its structure, language, and diagnostic instruments. Optima Bowling situates this reciprocal motion inside a purposeful systems-of-systems framework: the present overview elucidates why synchrony matters and how it has unfolded across epochs.

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8. Integrating Fragmentation and Wholeness

Finally, context clarifies the master claim: Human Development is not a bolt-on technique but the long arc that can reconcile the world’s apparent chaos.

One of the most distinctive aspects of the Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality approach is its resolution of the classic dichotomy between fragmentation and wholeness. Traditionally, the roles of teacher and student, or coach and player, have been viewed as separate and often conflicting. This fragmentation can inhibit the full expression of potential by creating artificial boundaries limiting ideas and energy flow.

The hybrid Coach-Play Ideology promotes an integrated and holistic approach. The roles of coach and player are not mutually exclusive but are instead seen as complementary facets of the same system. An energetic exchange of knowledge, experience, and insight characterizes this dynamic relationship. Rather than being confined to rigid roles, this approach, grounded in the LPPC model and expanded with the Performance as The Way of PIE principle, encourages flowing between guiding and being guided.

The boundaries between learning and teaching dissolve when the teacher or coach is willing to participate as a student or play partner. This hybrid coach-play approach leads to a harmonious state of wholeness, where fragmentation and dichotomy are overcome, and the full spectrum of human development can be accessed in dialogue. The hybrid coach-play approach offers a powerful means for transforming latent, isolated abilities into integrated actualities of performance activations.

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9. A Systems-of-Systems Perspective

The Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality site is more than a resource for improving athletic performance; it is a comprehensive system designed to facilitate multilevel holistic self-consciousness activations. By drawing on rigorous research and integrating various interlocking systems, the approach provides a cyclical, dynamic framework for understanding why and enhancing how we can utilize the full spectrum of human capabilities. The Potentiality and Actuality movement is not linear but an evolution of humanity encompassing perceptual control, dynamic coach-play interactions, systematic performance authentication, multidimensional being, ideological synthesis, and a coalesce of fragmentation with wholeness.

Optima Bowling is designed to serve as a resource for all committed to reaching for the pinnacle of human development (the self-realization of an Integrated Self). Whether coaches, athletes, educators, or lifelong learners. This thoughtful synthesis of established theories and emerging ideas offers tools and insights. Start from the present, what it is that your experiences have created. Look from the optima perspective of past-stream and future-stream possibilities, navigate by inquiry, life's complex, collective expectations, and then personal performance activations. Invite discoveries from your explorations of latent capacities while actively engaging in actualizing potential in a practical, measurable, and significant way.

By leveraging my research that spans psychology, philosophy, education, and practical coaching, Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality offers an innovative approach to achieving optimal performance. Each system, from the foundational principle of perceptual control to the fundamental Coach-Play Ideology, is designed to empower movement beyond the limitations of traditional fragmentations to align development with the integrity of wholeness (integrated, adaptive, and self-directed method of growth).

Remember, the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control (the LPPC model) encourages a balanced view of development that honors the wisdom of the past while boldly exploring the possibilities of the future. The Optima perspective is one of self-realization, transformational development, and fundamental change, where every individual has the opportunity to move beyond the constraints of a fragmented lifespan performance to achieve harmonious embodiment of the superficial and fundamental (the systemic levels of being human: physical, emotional, and mental) as an Integrated Self. Here, potentiality is not merely a concept but a living, dynamic force that continually drives the evolution of performance activations and self-realization of personal excellence.

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Continuing My-Research For My-Development

Coaches and players, teachers and students, as we move through 2025, I’ll remain focused on a few tasks: Strengthen how I communicate the development of human consciousness and potentiality, expand the content concerning the latest iteration, Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality. All the while continuing my research for my development in a scaled-down version to create a less esoteric (mysterious) context and approach to becoming an Integrated Self. This Hybridization process is progressing nicely through Past-Stream, Mainstream, and Future-Stream ideologies to take us back to the future.

As has been said before, the future is now.

My last direct reference from an esoteric knowledge source is for you, the seekers of reality. Please read it.

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