Category: Interviews
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Retrospective 2024-23
This is a retrospective of week 23, 2024 (2024-06-03–2024-06-09). This is a reminder to myself that I still haven’t finished my review of Robert Rosen’s book Anticipatory Systems which I started writing week 10. The reason I mention this is that I listened to Krista Tippett’s conversation with Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton this…
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Retrospective 2024-19
This is a retrospective of week 19, 2024 (2024-05-06–2024-05-12). This week I’ve continued reading Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris. It’s a book which arrived last week. Harman and Sahtouris write: The self-forming characteristics of living beings…require a re-examination of the metaphysical assumptions that tend to underlie all of Western science. –Willis Harman…
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Retrospective 2024-18
This is a retrospective of week 18, 2024 (2024-04-29–2024-05-05). This week I’ve continued looking into the work of Forrest Landry. Here and here are my previous retrospectives on Landry’s work. Jim Rutt talks with Landry about his Small Group Method and the difficulties in scaling it up beyond 16 people in this podcast. Forrest Landry’s…
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Leanne Whitney on wholeness and attention
The following quotes are from Hannelie Venucia’s interview with Leanne Whitney on Oct 22, 2018. Whitney speaks about the embodied feeling of wholeness and attention, among other things. Wholeness The embodied feeling of wholeness is a peace, a calm with a joy. It’s not a joy like a happiness that sort of comes and goes.…
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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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Tom Atlee on co-creation and democracy
The following quotes of Tom Atlee are from Jim Rough‘s interview with Tom Atlee on March 7, 2000: “We are co-creators… And that’s the stance we need to learn to move into whatever is happening. Even if we are bystanders we are co-creating. It’s like the audience and the theatre co-creates the performance. We are…
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Iain McGilchrist on love
The following is from Nate Hagen’s interview with Iain McGilchrist on August 23, 2023. Nate Hagens: What do you care most about in the world, Iain? Iain McGilchrist: It’s a very difficult thing to say because I just care about the world, really. But I care about it under the aspect of love. I care…
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Iain McGilchrist on the matter with things
The following is from Matthew Segall’s interview with Iain McGilchrist on October 16, 2022. Iain McGilchrist talks about our obsession with matter, the divided brain, four main approaches to truth, why it’s wrong to think of organisms as machines, life’s responsiveness, values as ontological primitives, and more. My emphasis in italics. 2:43 >>Matthew Segall: It’s…
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David Bohm on implicate order, wholeness, reality, coherence, and dialogue
The following is from an interview with David Bohm in Amsterdam 1990. My emphasis in italics. 1:20 >>David Bohm: As early as the late 1940s, … there was a tendency to believe that mathematics was the essential point about physics, and concepts, intuitive notions were not that important. And I found that very disturbing, and…