Author: Jan Höglund
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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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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