Category: Books
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Book Review: Mindsight
Mindsight: Transform Your Brain with the New Science of Kindness by Daniel Siegel is about the “kind of focused attention that allows us to see the internal workings of our own minds” (p.xi). The book is based on “three fundamental principles” (p.xiv): (1) mindsight is a “learnable skill” (p.xiv), (2) developing mindsight changes “the physical…
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Book Review: Dark Night Early Dawn
Christopher Bache explores the “deep ecology of mind as it reveals itself in nonordinary states” in Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind (p.16). Bache’s contention is that “we need to expand our frame of reference beyond the individual human being and look to the living systems the individual is part…
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Book Review: Global Brain
Global Brain: The Evolution of the Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard Bloom is a well-written book, but the problem I have with it is that there are too many ‘mechanical’ or ‘computerized’ analogies in the book — and I think that these analogies lead the thinking (and understanding) in…
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Book Review: Sky Above, Earth Below
Principles John Milton wrote Sky Above, Earth Below: Spiritual Practice in Nature in the hope that the practices and principles he shares will “greatly enrich your life” (p.229). Over the years he has identified the following principles for natural liberation (pp.8—15): The fundamental truth: All forms are interconnected, constantly change, and continuously arise from and…
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Book Review: Talking to the Enemy
Introduction When Scott Atran is asked to summarize his book Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human in one sentence, he answers: “People, including terrorists, don’t simply die for a cause; they die for each other, especially their friends” (p.478). Of the many millions “who express support…
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Book Review: The Heart Aroused
The Heart Aroused by David Whyte was first published in 1994. If I had read it twenty years ago, it might had influenced me to take another path in my work life? Or, maybe I needed the experience acquired during those twenty years to really appreciate the book? It’s a wonderful book. David Whyte eloquently…
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Upplösningen av mänskliga värden leder till förintelse
Maciej Zaremba recenserar Timothy Snyders nya bok Black earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning i DN 2015-11-23 och ser spår som leder till idag. Maciej Zaremba skriver: Timothy Snyder börjar med upphovet. Han gör en nyläsning av ”Mein Kampf” som får mig att inse att jag, som de flesta, måste ha förträngt det mest…
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Book Review: Turn the Ship Around!
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet is “a call to action, a manifesto” for turning followers into leaders (p. xxx) . At its core is the belief that “we can all be leaders, in fact, it’s best when we all are leaders” (p. xxvii). David…
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Structure follows flow
Jon Husband made an interesting comment on Facebook November 5, 2015 (see below). What I find interesting is that Jon Husband suggests “fluidity of structure”. Husband writes that structure “depends … upon the nature of work, … the pertinent flows of information and motivations and skills … etc.” In other words, that structure follows flow.…
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Book Review: The Power of Six
The Power of Six: A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge by Philip Harland is a brilliant and beautifully written book on the Power of Six, which is a practice for tapping into our own self-knowledge. Philip Harland covers the necessary conditions for the practice, outlines a number of ways of orchestrating the work, offers…