Category: Books
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Retrospective 2024-44
This is a retrospective of week 44, 2024 (2024-10-21–2024-11-03). This week I’ve finished reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards and The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. I wrote the following posts during the week: I think Rudolf Steiner focuses too much on the role of conceptual thinking in…
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Retrospective 2024-43
This is a retrospective of week 43, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20). I’ve continued reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards, and started reading The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner this week. Reading Steiner raises a number questions: I’ve also listened to Brian Gray’s leading thoughts from Applied Anthroposophy during the week.…
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Retrospective 2024-42
This is a retrospective of week 42, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20). I’ve seen The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner (part 1 & part 2) this week. Rudolf Steinder said we shouldn’t “accumulate learning” as our own “treasure of knowledge”, but “place this learning in the service of the world”.1 He called Goethe the “Copernicus and the Kepler of…
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Lars Linder om när orden lägger sig i vägen
Följande citat är hämtat från en recension av KG Hammars nya roman Den längsta resan i DN 2024-09-10 (min kursivering): ”KG Hammar vill få oss att se hur allt det där, naturkänsla, mystik, pliktmoral, hängde samman i Hammarskjölds huvud. Det gör han väl delvis också – men till ett högt pris. Mannen vi möter…vill nämligen…
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Retrospective 2024-33
This is a retrospective of week 33, 2024 (2024-08-12–2024-08-18). This week, I have read Min europiska familj: de senaste 54000 åren by Karin Bojs. The book is in Swedish and is about Bojs’ family for the past 54,000 years. The first part of the book is more interesting than the last part. The last part…
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Retrospective 2024-32
This is a retrospective of week 32, 2024 (2024-08-05–2024-08-11). I’ve started reading two books this week: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor, and Christ Way, Buddha Way: Jesus as Wisdom Teacher and a Zen Perspective on His Teachings by Tim Langdell. Charles Taylor writes the following about his book Cosmic…
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Retrospective 2024-31
This is a retrospective of week 31, 2024 (2024-07-29–2024-08-04). This week I’ve been reading two books: I’ve also read the following articles about generative AI: I found the following quote of Iain McGilchrist in a mail 2024-08-02 from Eric Schaetzle to the McGilchrist Irregulars: I don’t think practices in themselves will ever achieve what needs…
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Philip Ball and Iain McGilchrist on How Life Works
This post contains highlights from Philip Ball’s conversation with Iain McGilchrist which focuses on Ball’s book How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Philip Ball …this is a book that has…taken me decades to get to. …when I’m talking about a new biology, I’m trying to get across what has changed in…
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Retrospective 2024-27
This is a retrospective of week 27, 2024 (2024-07-01–2024-07-07). This week I’ve finished reading The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David R. Hawkins. I wonder how the consciousness-calibration research was done? As mentioned last week, there’s positive as well as negative bias in the consciousness calibration.…