Category: Books
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Retrospective 2024-50
This is a retrospective of week 50, 2024 (2024-12-09–2024-12-15). I mentioned last week that I’ve started reading The Dreaming Way by Toko-pa Tuner. This week I’ve been reading Belonging by Toko-pa Turner. Toko-pa Turner writes: …I write to you not as an expert in belonging, but as an orphan who needed to discover that there…
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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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Book Review: They Knew
They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior discusses the difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theories. “A conspiracy is an agreement of powerful actors to secretly carry out a plan that protects their own interests”. The mafia is a conspiracy, white-collar crime is another conspiracy. War and espionage rely upon…
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Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior is the story of Donald Trump’s rise to power. This story has been “visible without being seen”. Corruption, crime, and racism are all connected and “shape everyday American life”. Powerful individuals have for a long time acted “against…
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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…