Jan Höglund's Blog

Category: Nature

  • 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…

  • Jon Young on Deep Connection

    The following is from a conversation with Jon Young on Nature Connection and How to Prepare for the Future on March 15, 2020. Jon Young said: We can all go sit in nature and remember what it feels like to be connected to it. …and then remember we’re part of this living earth, and that it…

  • Tom Campbell and Iain McGilchrist on the Nature of Reality

    The following is from a discussion between Tom Campbell and Iain McGilchrist on the nature of reality. Iain McGilchrist is asked to start with providing an “elevator pitch”: Iain (6:05): Yes, I ought to be able to give an elevator pitch… I begin from exploring…the difference between the two brain hemispheres. … These two parts…

  • Baka Music

    I was born in Africa. The Baka Music & Magic – The Technology of Enchantment documentary reminds me of growing up in the rainforest. So who are the Baka? The Baka are one of many indigenous groups living in the tropical rainforests of the Congo basin. …they were called Pygmies… In spite of their wide…

  • 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…