Author: Jan Höglund
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Iain McGilchrist on value-ception
If Iain McGilchrist is right, then values are part of a conscious cosmos. Value-ception is immediate.1 Whenever we perceive something, we perceive the unanalyzed whole, and in this whole its value.2 This does not negate an axiological3 analysis of the original value-ception. We depend, however, on our right hemisphere for it to be disclosed to…
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Iain McGilchrist on love
The following is from Nate Hagen’s interview with Iain McGilchrist on August 23, 2023. Nate Hagens: What do you care most about in the world, Iain? Iain McGilchrist: It’s a very difficult thing to say because I just care about the world, really. But I care about it under the aspect of love. I care…
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Choosing aliveness?
How might we go deeper choosing aliveness? “Love”, I wrote last year, “is the inside of aliveness”.1 But what does that mean? Being still for a moment I am simply experiencing the feeling of being alive. But what exactly is this? Not thoughts, but aliveness. It’s feelable, aliveable—not thinkable. I am pausing experiencing it. Notes1.…
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Iain McGilchrist on control
The following quote is from a conversation between Iain McGilchrist and Ameer Shaheed in May 2023. It is part of a series of conversations exploring McGilchrist’s philosophy as laid out in The Matter with Things. (My emphasis in italics.) I would go so far as to say that control, which is the single value of…
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Edward Frenkel on the first person perspective and computation
The following is from Lex Fridman’s interview with Edward Frenkel on April 10, 2023. Edward Frenkel is a mathematician and author of the bestselling book Love and Math. I’m starting to question, why I am not giving as much credibility to my subjective understanding of the world…, the first person perpective… The observer is always…
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A test of ChatGPT
Introduction I tested ChatGPT today (April 17, 2023). I checked what the ChatGPT Mar 23 Version knew about Robert S. Hartman and his work. Below is an excerpt of ChatGPT’s answers to my questions, together with my comments. The comments are based on my reading of Robert S. Hartman’s two books Freedom to Live and…
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Learning from Masanobu Fukuoka’s philosophy
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008) pioneered natural farming. I think we have much to learn from Masanobu Fukuoka’s philosophy. Masanobu Fukuoka’s approach to natural farming entailed minimal human interference with nature. He saw nature as interconnected and resisted the urge to impose structure. Instead of action, he experimented with inaction. Instead of adding work, he attempted to…
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Carol Sanford on Indirect Work
Carol Sanford writes in Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Institutions and Humans that her words are often misinterpreted as direct instruction. People want something they can do, something they can apply directly. This means that what she is describing is downgraded to tactics rather than as an invitation to go deeper.…
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Amy Mindell on Metaskills
Amy Mindell explores the ways therapists express their attitudes and beliefs about life in her book Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy. These attitutes permeate and shape the therapist’s techniques. The therapist’s values are expressed in the interactions with the client. Amy Mindell has seen many therapists “in action”, how their theoretical ideas and techniques…
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Richard Tarnas on listening to the voice of nature
The following is from a session in the Mothership Earth Summit 2023 with Richard Tarnas on March 20, 2023. Richard says we seem to be living at the end of an era. He sees a striking resemblance between fundamental collective transformation and what takes place in individual initiatory rites of passage. Richard Tarnas talks about…