Category: Retrospectives

  • 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 2024-08

    This is a retrospective of week 8, 2024 (2024-02-19–2024-02-25). I have been reading Anticipatory Systems by Robert Rosen this week. The book is an inquiry into what makes anticipation a characteristic of the living.1 Rosen explains: We seek to encode natural systems [N] into formal ones [F, such that] the inferences or theorems we can…

  • Retrospective 2024-07

    This is a retrospective of week 7, 2024 (2024-02-12–2024-02-18). This week I completed my review of Leanne Whitney’s book Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali. If pure consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe, then not only depth psychology, but science itself, needs a “a major conceptual revolution”1. I will now immerse myself in…

  • 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…

  • Retrospective 2024-05

    This is a retrospective of week 5, 2024 (2024-01-29–2024-02-04). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I finished reading Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney this week. I found the book very interesting and will write a book review in the coming weeks. Whitney writes, Classical Yoga methodology, through the total involution…

  • Retrospective 2024-04

    This is a retrospective of week 4 2024 (2024-01-22–2024-01-28). Here is the retrospective of week 3 2024. I have been reading Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney this week. Jung believed that God, or the Self, could never be known directly, that comprehension comes about through ‘objects’ of experience. But Whitney writes, “it…

  • 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:

  • Retrospective 2024-02

    This is a retrospective of week 2 2024 (2024-01-08–2024-01-14). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I’m currently reading the following books: I’ve started reading: Notes:1. See Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist and Jonathan Rowson in Conversation, YouTube, https://youtu.be/YHUGuUhB1c4. Accessed: 2024-01-14. Published: 2023-03-06.2. David Ellerman makes principled arguments against the rental of…