Category: Reviews
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Book Review: Matter and Desire
Andreas Weber pursues an ambitious goal with Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology. He investigates the principles of reality that we experience and are part of through a science of the heart. It became clear to Weber that we need to completely rethink how we understand life and its significance. It also means that we…
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Book Review: Enlivenment
Enlivenment: Towards a fundamental shift in the concepts of nature, culture and politics by Andreas Weber is an e-book published by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung which can be downloade here. Andreas Weber sees Enlivenment as a way to move beyond Enlightenment. Enlivenment is a way to acknowledge the deeply creative processes embodied in all living…
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Andreas Weber on erotic, poetic, and existential ecology
Introduction Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher, and author. He is one of the most interesting authors I have read lately. This is a review of Andreas Weber’s essay Enlivenment (Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2013), and books Matter & Desire (Chelsey Green Publishing Company, 2014), Biology of Wonder (New Society Publishing, 2016), and Biopoetics (Springer, 2016).…
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Book Review: Catafalque
Catafalque is a biography where Peter Kingsley offers a view of Carl Jung as a mystic and prophet. Kingsley is a pleasure to read. His writing is like music, but after a couple of hundred pages I got tired of the single tune. Catafalque is a meticulous work about Jung, and as such it’s impressive.…
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Book Review: Who Do We Choose to Be?
Who Do We Choose to Be: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity by Margaret J. Wheatley offers a perspective on how to engage sanely with the destructive dynamics of our time. We do that by facing reality, willingly seeing where we are, and how we got here. Wheatley seeks to understand the forces that have…
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Book Review: The I of the Beholder
The ”I” of the Beholder: A Guided Journey to the Essence of a Child by Annemarie Roeper is an amazing book. Annemarie Roeper spent a lifetime working with children. She was very sensitive to their needs and found delight in their beautiful Selves.1 Over the years, she began to see her daily experiences from the…
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Book Review: The Dynamics of Transformation
The Dynamics of Transformation: Tracing an Emerging World View by Grant Maxwell is a book about how a new world view has been emerging over the last few centuries. We participate in the unfolding meaning of the world. Participatory insight is an outcome of an integrative method, which seeks to reconcile opposed assertions. The integrative method…
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Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk is a book about how the body continues to keep the score even if we try to ignore the alarm signals from the emotional brain.1 The rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain…
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Book Review: The Supreme Art of Dialogue
The Supreme Art of Dialogue: Structures of Meaning by Anthony Blake is, as the title says, a book about the art of dialogue. The structures of meaning in the sub-title refers to the flows that arise in the making of meaning during dialogue.1 David Bohm argued that society can be deeply affected by people are…
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Book Review: Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning
Introduction Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning is a most interesting book. Eugene Gendlin examines the edge of awareness, where language emerges from non-language.1 This book is a philosophical work. Gendlin explores how concepts relate to experiencing.2 He adds a body of theory that refer to experiencing, and that can grasp the way in which experiencing…