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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…

  • 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…

  • Retrospective 2024-17

    This is a retrospective of week 17, 2024 (2024-04-22–2024-04-28). I’ve spent the week looking into Forrest Landry’s work. This means that I’ve continued reading An Immanent Metaphysics and listened to some podcasts. Here is a post from earlier this week which is based on one of the podcasts. Below are some additional quotes from two…

  • 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…