Category: Notes
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Wholeness
We are already whole There’s nothing to do Wholeness is embodied Wholeness is ambiguous Wholeness is not static Wholeness lies behind the parts Wholeness cannot be pinned down Wholeness is not breakable into parts
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Retrospective 2024-04
This is a retrospective of week 4 2024 (2024-01-22–2024-01-28). Here is the retrospective of week 3 2024. I have been reading Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney this week. Jung believed that God, or the Self, could never be known directly, that comprehension comes about through ‘objects’ of experience. But Whitney writes, “it…
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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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Organisms must be free to choose
Why must organisms be free to choose? It’s because organisms must be free to act according to their own beinghood. It’s a foundational principle, because the cosmos itself is a free process of true and original creation. Compelled behavior is not creative. Organisms must be able to respond to the world. Skye Hirst emphasizes that:…
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Iain McGilchrist on Tradition
Iain McGilchrist mentions human rights twice in The Matter with Things. The following quote is from one of those places (my emphasis in bold): ”Jürgen Habermas sees Christianity playing a tacit role in modern society […] He, like many others, views our contemporary allegiance to freedom of life, social solidarity, emancipation, individual morality of conscience,…
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Does it have to be this way?
Sometimes the nearly unbearable beauty of the world overwhelms me, and I tremble with a felt-sense of the magnificence that saturates the Cosmos. And then, I wonder how the mysterious, self-organizing wild Earth can peacefully co-exist with the catastrophes and destructions of human invention. How do I hold both the magnificence and tragedy of the world,…
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Playing with ChatGPT
I played with ChatGPT this morning (Nov 10, 2023). This is what happened: User (me): Please, make the language in the following paragraph simple, clear, and succinct: It is profoundly misleading to compare an organism to a machine. Machines do not create themselves. They have no own interests. They do not resist being switched off.…
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Så småningom lär vi oss att gråta tyst
I dagens DN förklarar psykologen Malin Broberg vid Göteborgs universitet varför det är normalt att barn gråter när det lämnas på förskolan. Det finns inget som talar för att det på lång sikt skulle vara bättre eller sämre att göra det ena eller det andra, säger Malin Broberg. Så småningen lär vi oss att gråta…
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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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Choosing aliveness?
How might we go deeper choosing aliveness? “Love”, I wrote last year, “is the inside of aliveness”.1 But what does that mean? Being still for a moment I am simply experiencing the feeling of being alive. But what exactly is this? Not thoughts, but aliveness. It’s feelable, aliveable—not thinkable. I am pausing experiencing it. Notes1.…