Jan Höglund's Blog

Category: Thought

  • 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…

  • Rudolf Steiner on Thinking, Feeling, and Willing

    This is one of several posts which are based on my reading of The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. For other posts, see below. Rudolf Steiner writes about the three factors of life—thinking, feeling, and willing—in the addendum to the 1918 edition of The Philosophy of Freedom. I find it difficult to step into…

  • Iain McGilchrist on Concepts

    I’ve taken issue with Iain McGilchrist in a series of posts lately. This is yet another one. I will soon put an end to this. Iain McGilchrist writes: That the concepts may have become vulgarised is not a weakness in the concepts but, rather, in the cast of mind that does not measure up to…

  • John Vervaeke on Ecologies of Practice

    The following quotes are from the Metaphysics and the Matter with Things: Thinking with Iain McGilchrist conference in March 2024. John Vervaeke said (my emphasis in italics): I have been arguing extensively for the fact that we’re in a meaning crisis, that we have a worldview…in which we do not belong. And when your worldview…

  • 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…