Category: Books
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Retrospective 2024-13
This is a retrospective of week 13, 2024 (2024-03-25–2024-03-31). This week, I started reading The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson. They emphasize the importance of direct experience in a complex and entagled (Robert Rosen would have said entailed) world: Ultimately, we cannot forgo relying…
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Book Review: Co-Intelligence
Introduction Co-Intelligence: The Applied Wisdom of Wholeness, Interconnectedness, and Co-Creativity by Tom Atlee is an exploration of the co-intelligence that arises from wholeness, interconnectedness, and creativity. Co-intelligence has been the focus of Tom Atlee’s work for over 30 years. The book contains a rich set of materials on co-intelligence and how to use it. What…
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Retrospective 2024-12
This is a retrospective of week 12, 2024 (2024-03-18–2024-03-24). I finished reading Co-Intelligence by Tom Atlee this week. We are all (more or less) co-intelligently participating in what is going to happen next. Here is my book review. Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language inspired Tom Atlee to create two pattern languages, one on group process…
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Retrospective 2024-10
This is a retrospective of week 10, 2024 (2024-03-04–2024-03-10). I finished reading Anticipatory Systems by Robert Rosen last week. I am currently working on a review of this book. Here is my review of Rosen’s book Essays on Life Itself for those who might be interested. I listened to a podcast with Dean Radin this…
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Retrospective 2024-09
This is a retrospective of week 9, 2024 (2024-02-26–2024-03-03). I finished reading Robert Rosen’s Anticipatory Systems (AS) this week. Below are some quotes from AS and from podcast I’ve listened to during the week (my emphasis in italics): Rosen’s scientific legacy is the result of scientific commitment that excluded compromise as a path to acceptance…
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Retrospective 2024-07
This is a retrospective of week 7, 2024 (2024-02-12–2024-02-18). This week I completed my review of Leanne Whitney’s book Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali. If pure consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe, then not only depth psychology, but science itself, needs a “a major conceptual revolution”1. I will now immerse myself in…
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Book Review: Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali
Introduction Leanne Whitney spent a decade and a half studying the work of Carl Jung and Patañjali. Whitney shares her research findings in Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali. It’s an interesting book. Comparing the work of Jung and Patañjali “offers a rich source of deep discussion in relation to the nature of consciousness, the reality…
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Retrospective 2024-06
This is a retrospective of week 6, 2024 (2024-02-05–2024-02-11). I started reading Max De Pree this week: He fostered the idea of an inclusive corporation, one in which all voices are heard. … He encouraged open communication in the organization. He was often heard to say “Err on the side of over-communication.”1 I also started…
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Retrospective 2024-05
This is a retrospective of week 5, 2024 (2024-01-29–2024-02-04). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I finished reading Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney this week. I found the book very interesting and will write a book review in the coming weeks. Whitney writes, Classical Yoga methodology, through the total involution…