Category: Books
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Retrospective 2024-03
This is a retrospective of week 3 2024 (2024-01-15–2024-01-21). Here is the retrospective of week 2 2024. I’ve been reading Consciousness In Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney. I have also listened to the following podcasts with Leanne Whitney. I started reading the following book: I added the following books to my reading list:
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Retrospective 2024-02
This is a retrospective of week 2 2024 (2024-01-08–2024-01-14). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I’m currently reading the following books: I’ve started reading: Notes:1. See Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist and Jonathan Rowson in Conversation, YouTube, https://youtu.be/YHUGuUhB1c4. Accessed: 2024-01-14. Published: 2023-03-06.2. David Ellerman makes principled arguments against the rental of…
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Retrospective 2024-01
This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…
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Are we working too hard?
Alfred Huang is the author of The Complete I Ching, The Numerology of I Ching, and Understanding the I Ching. I Ching is the book of changes. It is also a book of symbols. I Ching‘s symbolism is elegant, but sometimes I wonder if we humans are working too hard? As a technique, one should…
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Governance in harmony with Life
Alfred Huang describes an ancient culture seeking harmony with Life, governance without coercion, in Understanding the I Ching. What they knew 3000 years ago, we need to relearn today. My emphasis in italics. The I Ching reveals an ancient culture that honors Heaven, esteems the Earth and expresses love for the people. It espouses a…
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Matthew Segall on Whitehead
Matthew Segall’s book the Physics of the World-Soul: The Relevance of Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism to Contemporary Scientific Cosmology places Whitehead’s cosmology in a historical context dating back to Plato. Segall also compares Whitehead’s philosophy with today’s scientific cosmology. One of Segall’s main arguments is that “a coherent naturalistic perspective on the relationship…
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Book Review: The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber and David Wengrow spent ten years writing The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Everything. The book is based on a dialogue between them about human history. The breakthrough came when they moved away from European thinkers and focused on the perspectives of indigenous thinkers. The prevalent view of history has almost…