Author: Jan Höglund
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Tom Atlee on co-creation and democracy
The following quotes of Tom Atlee are from Jim Rough‘s interview with Tom Atlee on March 7, 2000: “We are co-creators… And that’s the stance we need to learn to move into whatever is happening. Even if we are bystanders we are co-creating. It’s like the audience and the theatre co-creates the performance. We are…
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Organisms must be free to choose
Why must organisms be free to choose? It’s because organisms must be free to act according to their own beinghood. It’s a foundational principle, because the cosmos itself is a free process of true and original creation. Compelled behavior is not creative. Organisms must be able to respond to the world. Skye Hirst emphasizes that:…
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The Ground
Before thought Awareness perceiving Happening by itself It comes if it comes just-in-time Let the attention rest beyond thought Just open be present There’s a release and integration Bubbling up Don’t rush There’s no endpoint Presence Imperfectly perfect Silence Words & Actions Beneficial to the whole In harmony Inner knowing comes first No separation between…
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Iain McGilchrist on Tradition
Iain McGilchrist mentions human rights twice in The Matter with Things. The following quote is from one of those places (my emphasis in bold): ”Jürgen Habermas sees Christianity playing a tacit role in modern society […] He, like many others, views our contemporary allegiance to freedom of life, social solidarity, emancipation, individual morality of conscience,…
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Stephen Harrod Buhner on deeper attunement
The following is from Michael Barticel’s interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner. Buhner talks about developing a deeper attunement with ourselves and the world. He says (paraphrasing): My work is the movement from dissociated mentation to engaged sensory experience, in particular the response of the heart to what’s presented to the senses.3 Descartes said, “Cogito, ergo…
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Does it have to be this way?
Sometimes the nearly unbearable beauty of the world overwhelms me, and I tremble with a felt-sense of the magnificence that saturates the Cosmos. And then, I wonder how the mysterious, self-organizing wild Earth can peacefully co-exist with the catastrophes and destructions of human invention. How do I hold both the magnificence and tragedy of the world,…
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Trust
Might we see ourselves reflected in each other Might we see beyound all differences Might we remember that we belong to each other without condition
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Playing with ChatGPT
I played with ChatGPT this morning (Nov 10, 2023). This is what happened: User (me): Please, make the language in the following paragraph simple, clear, and succinct: It is profoundly misleading to compare an organism to a machine. Machines do not create themselves. They have no own interests. They do not resist being switched off.…
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Neil Turok on Life
The following quote is from Brian Keating‘s interview with Neil Turok on October 2, 2022: I think, and it may sound strange from a physicist, but I think the most fascinating thing in the universe is Life, and how it’s organized… What is the law that governs life, that tells you that life will emerge?…
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Så småningom lär vi oss att gråta tyst
I dagens DN förklarar psykologen Malin Broberg vid Göteborgs universitet varför det är normalt att barn gråter när det lämnas på förskolan. Det finns inget som talar för att det på lång sikt skulle vara bättre eller sämre att göra det ena eller det andra, säger Malin Broberg. Så småningen lär vi oss att gråta…