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  • Retrospective 2024-15

    This is a retrospective of week 15, 2024 (2024-04-08–2024-04-14). This week, I finished reading VISTA: Life and getting where you want to be by Elisabet Sahtouris and I started reading the following two books: I also listened to Heather Ensworth’s interview with Elisabet Sahtouris this week. Elisabet talked, among other things, about her new book:…

  • Retrospective 2014-14

    This is a retrospective of week 14, 2024 (2024-04-01–2024-04-07). My first grandchild, Alice, was born on April 2nd. Below is my drawing of her hand. I am moved to tears when I see her and I am grateful that everything went well. Here is also another drawing of Alice. I found the following quote the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Retrospective 2024-11

    This is a retrospective of week 11, 2024 (2024-03-11–2024-03-17). As I mentioned last week, I’m currently working on a review of Robert Rosen’s book Anticipatory Systems. This week, I’ve started reading Bjørn Ekeberg’s book on Metaphysical Experiments. Ekeberg’s focus is on the metaphysics of cosmology and the key assumptions that underlie the mathematical treatment of…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Retrospective 2024-03

    This is a retrospective of week 3 2024 (2024-01-15–2024-01-21). Here is the retrospective of week 2 2024. I’ve been reading Consciousness In Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney. I have also listened to the following podcasts with Leanne Whitney. I started reading the following book: I added the following books to my reading list: