Author: Jan Höglund

  • Retrospective 2024-10

    This is a retrospective of week 10, 2024 (2024-03-04–2024-03-10). I finished reading Anticipatory Systems by Robert Rosen last week. I am currently working on a review of this book. Here is my review of Rosen’s book Essays on Life Itself for those who might be interested. I listened to a podcast with Dean Radin this…

  • Retrospective 2024-09

    This is a retrospective of week 9, 2024 (2024-02-26–2024-03-03). I finished reading Robert Rosen’s Anticipatory Systems (AS) this week. Below are some quotes from AS and from podcast I’ve listened to during the week (my emphasis in italics): Rosen’s scientific legacy is the result of scientific commitment that excluded compromise as a path to acceptance…

  • Retrospective 2024-08

    This is a retrospective of week 8, 2024 (2024-02-19–2024-02-25). I have been reading Anticipatory Systems by Robert Rosen this week. The book is an inquiry into what makes anticipation a characteristic of the living.1 Rosen explains: We seek to encode natural systems [N] into formal ones [F, such that] the inferences or theorems we can…

  • Retrospective 2024-07

    This is a retrospective of week 7, 2024 (2024-02-12–2024-02-18). This week I completed my review of Leanne Whitney’s book Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali. If pure consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe, then not only depth psychology, but science itself, needs a “a major conceptual revolution”1. I will now immerse myself in…

  • Book Review: Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali

    Introduction Leanne Whitney spent a decade and a half studying the work of Carl Jung and Patañjali. Whitney shares her research findings in Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali. It’s an interesting book. Comparing the work of Jung and Patañjali “offers a rich source of deep discussion in relation to the nature of consciousness, the reality…

  • Retrospective 2024-06

    This is a retrospective of week 6, 2024 (2024-02-05–2024-02-11). I started reading Max De Pree this week: He fostered the idea of an inclusive corporation, one in which all voices are heard. … He encouraged open communication in the organization. He was often heard to say “Err on the side of over-communication.”1 I also started…

  • Retrospective 2024-05

    This is a retrospective of week 5, 2024 (2024-01-29–2024-02-04). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I finished reading Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney this week. I found the book very interesting and will write a book review in the coming weeks. Whitney writes, Classical Yoga methodology, through the total involution…

  • Wholeness

    We are already whole There’s nothing to do Wholeness is embodied Wholeness is ambiguous Wholeness is not static Wholeness lies behind the parts Wholeness cannot be pinned down Wholeness is not breakable into parts

  • Moving Beyond

    I wrote this while reading Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney. Some-thing No-thing Know-ing Be-ing Seen Seer Moving beyond, beneath, within, and through, mental constructs, allows us to hear, perceive, how they can box us in. Objectification, conceptualization, can fuel confusion. Superimposing words, meanings, and ideas on experiencing distorts perception.

  • Retrospective 2024-04

    This is a retrospective of week 4 2024 (2024-01-22–2024-01-28). Here is the retrospective of week 3 2024. I have been reading Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney this week. Jung believed that God, or the Self, could never be known directly, that comprehension comes about through ‘objects’ of experience. But Whitney writes, “it…