Jan Höglund's Blog

Category: Wholeness

  • Deep Metaphysical Assumptions

    I find many of Iain McGilchrist’s deep metaphysical assumptions wonderfully resonant, but not all. Let’s explore! What are McGilchrist’s deep metaphysical assumptions? McGilchrist says: I’ve really always been philosophically minded. There were a number of things that occurred to me and seemed terribly important… These were things like that:[1] The whole is never the same…

  • Iain McGilchrist on Wholeness

    The purpose of this post is to highlight some of what Iain McGilchrist writes about wholeness in his two books The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things together with my questions. Ian McGilchrist writes (my emphasis in italics): …there is the primacy of wholeness: the right hemisphere deals with the world before…

  • Jon Young on Deep Connection

    The following is from a conversation with Jon Young on Nature Connection and How to Prepare for the Future on March 15, 2020. Jon Young said: We can all go sit in nature and remember what it feels like to be connected to it. …and then remember we’re part of this living earth, and that it…

  • John Gribbin on Instantaneous Interconnectedness

    “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the parts of the whole are interconnected by feedbacks — feedbacks which seem to operate instantaneously. This is where we can begin to make a fruitful analogy with living systems.” —John Gribbin https://johngribbinscience.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/a-quantum-myth-for-our-times/ “…each individual charged particle — including each electron — is instantaneously aware of…

  • Christopher Alexander on Observation

    Christopher Alexander has the following to say about the new method of observation which he proposes in The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life (italics in the original text): [The method of observation] goes directly to the intuitions which are widely shared and raises them to a formal level as techniques of…

  • Christopher Alexander on Descartes

    Christopher Alexander has the following to say about René Descartes in The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life (italics in the original text): …Descartes not only invented the method of observation which in effect we have continued to use unchanged for several hundred years, but that in addition he saw clearly what…

  • 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…

  • Leanne Whitney on wholeness and attention

    The following quotes are from Hannelie Venucia’s interview with Leanne Whitney on Oct 22, 2018. Whitney speaks about the embodied feeling of wholeness and attention, among other things. Wholeness The embodied feeling of wholeness is a peace, a calm with a joy. It’s not a joy like a happiness that sort of comes and goes.…