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     The exhibits at the Museum of the Creative Process at the Wilburton Inn introduce Teleion Holon, Aristotle’s measuring rod of behavior, as the overarching mental and moral order, as the scientific unit of behavior. The Formal Theory of Behavior has recognized an entity present in all samples of creativity: the Conflict Resolution Process; this is the holistic perspective in the study of behavior. This entity has dimensions; it is a measurable and predictable natural science and moral order phenomenon; it is a simple and lofty, all encompassing and uplifting, meaningful and useful entity. This order simplifies the language to understand behavior by introducing constructs and formulas into the study of behavior. Formulas allow us both abstraction and objectivity in matters of subjectivity. The conflict resolution entity is a measuring rod to all phenomena of behavior as alternative conflict resolution processes. It makes it possible to evolve consensus on the nature of behavior and be clear on what is happiness as a definable and attainable goal.

    The Formal Theory conveys the secrets to 'living happily ever after’. Unlike the traditional paradigms telling the secrets to happiness as stories that people believe in as the truth, the new paradigm is finding the truth not in the content of stories, but in the plot of all stories. The secret order of the unconscious manifests itself as the interrelation of thoughts and feelings predictably leading from a conflict to its resolution.

   The creative process reflects the mental dialectic, the holistic structure of stories. It follows a set path: six steps, completing three emotional transformations. Any Stress elicits a Response and generates an anxiety. Anxiety determines the Defense which begs a Response from others and the Reversal of the hero who completes the story with a Compromise, or a resolution, and then the story ends and we all enjoy the Rest of the moral lesson.

     The four exhibits serve the purpose of illustrating the Universal Harmonic as the new paradigm, and its scientific nature as a periodic phenomenon. It is quantifiable, how it is a universal scientific and moral order, and how it integrates the social sciences with the exact science of behavior. This science is not agnostic; it understands values. It is the Gnostic Science, the science of conflict resolution or Power Management.