Category: Retrospectives
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Retrospective 2025-02
This is a retrospective of week 2, 2025 (2025-01-06–2025-01-12). This week I’ve listened to interviews with Edward Close1,2 and Matthew Segall.3,4,5 Below are some highlights (my emphasis). Edward Close on Mathematics and Consciousness I think that mathematics is a reflection of the logical structure of reality. —Edward Close https://youtu.be/a8qp2TNFO6A?t=537 I believe he [George Spencer Brown…
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Retrospective 2025-01
This is a retrospective of week 1, 2025 (2024-12-30–2025-01-05). This week I’ve listened to Andreas Weber,1,2 Predrag Slijepčević,3 Stephan Schwartz,4 and Christopher Key Chapple.5 I’ve continued listening to Elain Pagels,6,7 whom I mentioned last week. I’ve also read Beyond the Brain by Jeffrey Mishlove this week. Below are some highlights (my emphasis): Andreas Weber on…
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Retrospective 2024-52
This is a retrospective of week 52, 2024 (2024-12-23–2024-12-29). This week I’ve listened to interviews with Penelope Smith,1,2 James Cooke,3 and Elaine Pagels.4,5,6 I’ve also started reading Animal Talk: Interspecies Telepathic Communication by Penelope Smith, The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive by James Cooke, and Why Religion? A Personal Story by…
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Retrospective 2024-51
This is a retrospective of week 51, 2024 (2024-12-16–2024-12-22). I’ve listened to podcasts with Bill Plotkin1 and Penelope Smith2,3 this week. Bill Plotkin recited All True Vows by David Whyte and said: Life serves life. —Bill Plotkin https://youtu.be/S25UKlLq5m8?t=2948 Help a small child feel totally welcomed in this world. … The fact that they are seen…
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Retrospective 2024-50
This is a retrospective of week 50, 2024 (2024-12-09–2024-12-15). I mentioned last week that I’ve started reading The Dreaming Way by Toko-pa Tuner. This week I’ve been reading Belonging by Toko-pa Turner. Toko-pa Turner writes: …I write to you not as an expert in belonging, but as an orphan who needed to discover that there…
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Retrospective 2024-49
This is a retrospective of week 49, 2024 (2024-12-02–2024-12-08). This week I’ve started reading Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown and The Dreaming Way by Toko-Pa Turner. Learning takes place not just in the head but in the heart (Macy & Brown) through dreaming (Turner). Trust your own experience, discernment, and…
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Retrospective 2024-48
This is a retrospective of week 48, 2024 (2024-11-25–2024-12-01). I have listened to the following podcasts this week: Jeffrey Mishlove said: Limits of Science Science itself is incapable of addressing first principles. … Why was the universe created in the first place is not a question that science can answer. … What are the limits…
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Retrospective 2024-47
This is a retrospective of week 47, 2024 (2024-11-18–2024-11-24). This week I have started reading the following books by Steve Taylor: Steve Taylor writes (my emphais in italics): Why do we find it impossible to live in harmony with each other, with the natural world, or even with our own selves? Why is human history…
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Retrospective 2024-46
This is a retrospective of week 46, 2024 (2024-11-11–2024-11-17). I’ve finished reading Sarah Kendzior’s books Hiding in Plain Sight and They Knew this week. I have also listened to Sarah Kendzior’s conversation with Jason Rosenbaum. Sarah Kendzior said: I believe in perseverance; I believe in resilience; I believe in compassion; I believe in action. ……