Category: Retrospectives
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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. ……
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Retrospective 2024-44
This is a retrospective of week 44, 2024 (2024-10-21–2024-11-03). This week I’ve finished reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards and The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. I wrote the following posts during the week: I think Rudolf Steiner focuses too much on the role of conceptual thinking in…
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Retrospective 2024-43
This is a retrospective of week 43, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20). I’ve continued reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards, and started reading The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner this week. Reading Steiner raises a number questions: I’ve also listened to Brian Gray’s leading thoughts from Applied Anthroposophy during the week.…
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Retrospective 2024-42
This is a retrospective of week 42, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20). I’ve seen The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner (part 1 & part 2) this week. Rudolf Steinder said we shouldn’t “accumulate learning” as our own “treasure of knowledge”, but “place this learning in the service of the world”.1 He called Goethe the “Copernicus and the Kepler of…
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Retrospective 2024-41
This is a retrospective of week 41, 2024 (2024-10-07–2024-10-13). I’ve taken issue with McGilchrist lately (see the related posts). Some would argue that my interpretations are too literalistic in relation to what McGilchrist really is trying to say. My observation, though, is that McGilchrist often seems to fall back on literalistic interpretations himself—questioning the exact…