Category: Reviews

Häromdagen fick jag möjlighet att snabblåna De hemliga breven av Alva & Gunnar Myrdal, Jan Myrdal och Bosse Lindquist (introduktion och urval). Jan Myrdal försökte få kontroll över dessa brev. Här är mina intryck. Under åren har Jan Myrdals texter tagits för sanna. De hemliga breven betonar vikten av kritisk granskning. Bosse Lindquist skriver: Jans…

Introduction Co-Intelligence: The Applied Wisdom of Wholeness, Interconnectedness, and Co-Creativity by Tom Atlee is an exploration of the co-intelligence that arises from wholeness, interconnectedness, and creativity. Co-intelligence has been the focus of Tom Atlee’s work for over 30 years. The book contains a rich set of materials on co-intelligence and how to use it. What…

Introduction Leanne Whitney spent a decade and a half studying the work of Carl Jung and Patañjali. Whitney shares her research findings in Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali. It’s an interesting book. Comparing the work of Jung and Patañjali “offers a rich source of deep discussion in relation to the nature of consciousness, the reality…

David Graeber and David Wengrow spent ten years writing The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Everything. The book is based on a dialogue between them about human history. The breakthrough came when they moved away from European thinkers and focused on the perspectives of indigenous thinkers. The prevalent view of history has almost…

Introduction Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World by F. David Peat is a book about moving from policies, plans and imposed solutions to more intelligent and harmonious action that evolves out of the context itself.1 This involves creative suspension of action, with the aim of developing a clearer perception of the situation,…

LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven by Christopher Bache is a book which has two titles. The outer title, LSD and the Mind of the Universe, describes what the book is about. The inner title, Diamonds from Heaven, refers to the “Diamond Light” at “the center of the mind of the…

Du stolta, du fria: Om svenskarna, Sverigebilden och folkhälsopatriotismen av Gina Gustavsson är en bok om det Sverige som blottades när coronapandemin svepte över landet. Gina Gustavsson är docent i statskunskap vid Uppsala universitet och fristående kolumnist i Dagens Nyheter. Detta är en recension av Gina Gustavssons bok. Låt mig klargöra redan från början att…

Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler is an international bestseller which was first published in 1993. This is a review of the edition from 1999. Ricardo Semler writes in the new introduction that Maverick is “a reminder that age-old truths about human nature, respect and integrity can be…

Jenny Quillien identifies patterns that enable thought in her book Clever Digs: How Workspaces Can Enable Thought. Quillien focuses on thinking, but doesn’t address spaces for aliveness (Christopher Alexander’s “quality without a name“). I assume that places that support a sense of aliveness also are good for thinking — especially creative thinking. Patterns can be…