Category: Interviews
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Leanne Whitney on wholeness and attention
The following quotes are from Hannelie Venucia’s interview with Leanne Whitney on Oct 22, 2018. Whitney speaks about the embodied feeling of wholeness and attention, among other things. Wholeness The embodied feeling of wholeness is a peace, a calm with a joy. It’s not a joy like a happiness that sort of comes and goes.…
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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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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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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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Iain McGilchrist on the matter with things
The following is from Matthew Segall’s interview with Iain McGilchrist on October 16, 2022. Iain McGilchrist talks about our obsession with matter, the divided brain, four main approaches to truth, why it’s wrong to think of organisms as machines, life’s responsiveness, values as ontological primitives, and more. My emphasis in italics. 2:43 >>Matthew Segall: It’s…
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David Bohm on implicate order, wholeness, reality, coherence, and dialogue
The following is from an interview with David Bohm in Amsterdam 1990. My emphasis in italics. 1:20 >>David Bohm: As early as the late 1940s, … there was a tendency to believe that mathematics was the essential point about physics, and concepts, intuitive notions were not that important. And I found that very disturbing, and…
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Basil Hiley on working together with David Bohm
The following is from an interview with Basil Hiley, who was a collaborator and colleague of David Bohm for over 30 years. My emphasis in italics. >>Basil Hiley: The quantum domain arises because as we probed into the behavior of matter…we found that the atoms were behaving in a way which we could not understand…
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Iain McGilchrist on the differences between the two hemispheres of the brain
The following is from Rick Archer’s inteview with Iain McGilchrist on August 22, 2020. Iain McGilchrist talks about the differences between the two hemispheres of the brain and his two books, The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things. The latter was published a year after this interview on November 9, 2021. My…
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Louise Kay on listening to our heart
The following is from John Lynch’s interview with Louise Kay on November 28, 2022. Louise Kay invites us to follow the whispers of our heart. My emphasis in italics. 1:02:49 >>Louise Kay: I’d like to invite people to listen to their heart, to follow the whispers of their heart, because we live in a society…