Category: Play

  • Retrospective 2024-45

    This is a retrospective of week 45, 2024 (2024-11-04–2024-11-10). I’ve started reading Sarah Kendzior’s books Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America and They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent this week. I will return to these books next week. I’ve also listened to the…

  • An Experiment in Remote Viewing with Russell Targ

    Please note:You may want to do the experiment yourselfbefore reading any further. If so, click here. Russell Targ is an American physicist who is known for his work on remote viewing. I’ve participated in an experiment in remote viewing with him. This is what happened. Paola Harris: Let’s do the experiment! … Get a piece…

  • Margaret Wheatley’s Eight Principles

    I found the following eight principles in Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris. These principles are from A Simpler Way by Margaret Wheatley. Notes:1. Willis Harman & Elisabet Sahtouris, Biology Revisioned, pp. 256–58.

  • Free Play

    I have read “Spela fritt” by Stephen Nachmanovitch, which is a Swedish translation of Nachmanovitch’s book “Free Play“, and was reminded what is lost in translation. Even the book’s title, “Spela fritt”, is lost in translation. Play can be translated with spel or lek. So, the title could have been “Leka fritt”, or “Fri Lek”.…