Category: Aliveness
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Retrospective 2024-49
This is a retrospective of week 49, 2024 (2024-12-02–2024-12-08). This week I’ve started reading Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown and The Dreaming Way by Toko-Pa Turner. Learning takes place not just in the head but in the heart (Macy & Brown) through dreaming (Turner). Trust your own experience, discernment, and…
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Jon Young on Deep Connection
The following is from a conversation with Jon Young on Nature Connection and How to Prepare for the Future on March 15, 2020. Jon Young said: We can all go sit in nature and remember what it feels like to be connected to it. …and then remember we’re part of this living earth, and that it…
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Christopher Alexander on Observation
Christopher Alexander has the following to say about the new method of observation which he proposes in The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life (italics in the original text): [The method of observation] goes directly to the intuitions which are widely shared and raises them to a formal level as techniques of…
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Christopher Alexander on Descartes
Christopher Alexander has the following to say about René Descartes in The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life (italics in the original text): …Descartes not only invented the method of observation which in effect we have continued to use unchanged for several hundred years, but that in addition he saw clearly what…
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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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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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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.…