Retrospective 2021-52

This is a summary of my reading during 2021. Particularly interesting books/authors are marked in bold/bold.

I read the following books (latest read, listed first):

• Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change by Adam Kahane
• Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together by Adam Kahane
• Initiating and Inviting Generative Change: Entry and Contracting for Emergent Outcomes In Results Driven Organizations by Tova Averbuch
• The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist (This is a 2-volume book which I will continue reading during 2022)
• Love and the Soul: Creating a Future For Earth by Robert Sardello
• Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness by Robert Sardello
• The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
• What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
• Values: An Anthology for Seekers by J.G. Bennett
• Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson
• Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche by Robert A. Johnson
• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
• The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik
• Du stolta, du fria: Om svenskarna, Sverigebilden och folkhälsopatriotismen av Gina Gustavsson (in Swedish)
• The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul
• Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking: Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovksy, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman by David Graeber
• How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human by Eduardo Kohn
• Direct Action: An Ethnography by David Graeber
• Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our own Dreams by David Graeber
• Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar by David Graeber
• The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
• Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries & Personal Encounters with Plants by Monica Gagliano
• Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World by Kathleen E. Allen
• Destructive Emotions: And how we can overcome them by Daniel Goleman
• Taking the War out of Our Words: The Art of Powerful Non-Defensive Communication by Sharon Strand Ellison
• Talking with Angles by Gitta Mallasz
• Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco (Illustrator)
• Entering Bohm’s Holoflux: Explorations in Participatory Consciousness by Lee Nichol
• When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
• The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjöö, Barbara Mor
• The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
• The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
• The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning by Iain McGilchrist
• Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World by Michael Meade
• The Genius Myth by Michael Meade
• Unified – Cosmos, Life, Purpose: Communicating with the Unified Source Field & How This Can Guide Our Lives by Kingsley L. Dennis
• Choosing Earth: Humanity’s Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization by Duane Elgin
• Yes to Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Harrod Buhner
• The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships by Michael P. Nichols
• A World of Many Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena & Mario Blaser (Editors)
• Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour
• Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization by Scott Barry Kaufman
• The Art of Listening by Erich Fromm
• Sandtalk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
• On Disobedience by Erich Fromm
• The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion by Joseph Campbell
• The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance by Joseph Campbell
• Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
• Gaia’s Dance: The Story of Earth & Us by Elisabet Sahtouris
• Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
• The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings by Mary C. Richards
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Geometrical methods of mathematical physics by Bernard Schutz
• The large scale structure of space-time by S.W. Hawking & G.F.R Ellis
• A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design by Frank Wilczek
• Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
• The Soul of Place: Re-imagining Leadership Through Nature, Art and Community by Michael Jones
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
• Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman (Editors)
• Aikido and the Harmony of Nature by Mitsugi Saotome
• The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us by George Leonard
• Accounting for Slavery by Caitlin Rosenthal
• Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World by Sky Nelson-Isaacs
• The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings by Mary Caroline Richards
• Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person by Mary Caroline Richards
• What Are We Living For? by J.G. Bennett
• Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts
• A Gymnasium of Beliefs in Higher Intelligence by Anthony Blake
• The Crisis in Human Affairs by J.G. Bennett
• Witness: The Story of a Search by J.G. Bennett
• Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue by David Bohm
• In Search of the Miraculous: The Definitive Exploration of G.I. Gurdjieff’s mystical thought and universal view by P.D. Ouspensky
• In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness by G.I. Gurdjieff
• The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff by Jeanne de Salzmann
• Deeper Man by J.G. Bennett
• The Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky
• The Intelligent Enneagram by Anthony Blake
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
• Advances in Presencing: Volume 1 by Olen Gunnlaugson, William Brendel (Editors)

I want to read the following books (latest added, listed first):

• How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger
• A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes
• Disobedient Teaching: Surviving and Creating Change in Education by Welby Ings
• The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All by Tom Atlee, Rosa Zubizarreta, Jacquelyn Lynn
• Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics by Tom Atlee
• Collective Intelligence: Creating A Prosperous World At Peace by Tom Atlee, Paul Martin
• Reflections on Evolutionary Activism: Essays, poems and prayers from an emerging field of sacred social change by Tom Atlee
• Participatory Sustainability: Notes for an Emerging Field of Civilizational Engagement by Tom Atlee
• Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life by Harriet McBryde Johnson
• Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors by Edward Niedermeyer
• The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud, Ned Johnson
• Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society by Chris Mowles
• Moose Heads on the Table: Stories About Self-Managing Organisations from Sweden by Karin Tenelius, Lisa Gill
• Practicing Open Space by HansGeorg Wicke
• Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives by Minal Bopaiah
• Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr., Christopher Vaughan
• Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks by Guy Claxton
• Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
• Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by Adrienne Maree Brown
• Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present by Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik
• Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing Developmental Evolutionary Biology by Anton Markoš
• Mind from Matter Cloth by Max Delbrück
• Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades by Fritjof Capra
• Toward a General Theory of Action: Theoretical Foundations for the Social Sciences by Talcott Parsons, Edward Shils
• Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers Of Mary Parker Follett by Mary Parker Follett
• Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West by Morris Berman
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers
• Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
• Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin
• Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set by Gavin van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (Editors)
• Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life by Gillian Tett
• Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey B. West
• Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Nagel
• The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto
• Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future by Bruce H. Lipton, Steve Bhaerman
• Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the Shadows of the Enlightenment by Liam Kavanagh
• Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer
• The Psychology of Pandemics by Steven Taylor
• Why You Dread Work: What’s Going Wrong in Your Workplace and How to Fix It by Helen Holmes
• The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet by Sylvain Tesson
• Finding Our Niche: Toward a Restorative Human Ecology by Philip A. Loring
• Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations by Kathryn Mannix
• Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson
• Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis by Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky Sakuteiki
• Visions of the Japanese Garden: A Modern Translation of Japan’s Gardening Classic by Jiro Takei, Marc Peter Keane
• The Promises of Giants: How YOU can fill the leadership void by John Amaechi Obe
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
• A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime by John Archibald Wheeler
• Feminism: A Key Idea for Business and Society by Celia V Harquail
• The Power of Not Thinking: How Our Bodies Learn and Why We Should Trust Them by Simon Roberts
• The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
• Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry by Owen Barfield
• A Life of One’s Own by Marion Milner
• The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World by Benjamin H. Bratton
• The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli
• Faces: The Changing Look of Humankind by Milton E. Brener
• The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind by Louis A. Sass
• Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought by Louis A. Sass
• Grace: A Leader’s Guide to a Better Us by John Baldon
• More Than This: Your Heroic Quest to Find Inspiration, Intent, Impact and Insight in a Broken World by Rebecca Elvy
• From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
• Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response by Andy Slavitt
• Deep Tech and the Amplified Organisation: How to elevate, scale and amplify your business through the New 4Ps of platforms, purpose, people and planet by Simon Robinson, Maria Moraes Robinson, Igor Couto
• Choosing Earth: Humanity’s Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization by Duane Elgin
• The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
• Concerning the Inner Life by Evelyn Underhill
• Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes by William Bridges
• The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul
• The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go by Matthew Barzun
• Better work together: How the power of community can transform your business by Susan Basterfield, Anthony Cabraal
• Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
• The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou
• Renaissance Man by Ágnes Heller
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
• How to: Be More Pirate by Sam Conniff and Alex Barker
• Social by Design: How to create and scale a collaborative company by Mark Britz and James Tyer
• Changing Our Minds: How children can take control of their own learning by Naomi Fisher
• These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home by Bayo Akomolafe
• Work With Source: Realize Big Ideas, Organise for Emergence and Work Artfully with Money by Tom Nixon
• Systems Thinking – And Other Dangerous Habits by H. William Dettmer
• Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
• Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary by Louis Hyman
• Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson
• Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto by Bryan W. Van Norden
• Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionize the Welfare State by Hilary Cottam
• Radical Uncertainty by Marvyn King and John Kay
• The Corona Chronicles: Envisioning a New Normal for Regeneration and Thriving by Ralph Thurm
• Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim
• Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Heavy Light: A Journey through Madness, Mania and Healing by Horatio Clare
• The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few by Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard
• Numbskull in The Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science by William R. Torbert
• Cognition and Categorization by Eleanor Rosch
• Powered by Purpose by Sarah Rozenthuler
• Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton
• Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World by Jason Hickel
• Organisationer i en overgangstid: Handbok for ledere av Maya Drøschler (in Danish)
• Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
• You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How To Lead When it Matters Most by Lonard J. Marcus, Eric. J. McNulty, Joseph M. Henderson, and Barry C. Dorn
• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhapupt Tsing
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become by Barbara L. Fredrickson
• Do Build – How to make and lead a business the world needs by Alan Moore
• Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
• Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens
• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio R. Damásio
• The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn: A Facsimile
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson
• Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders by Jennifer Garvey Berger and Keith Johnston
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• Reality by Peter Kingsley
• Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference by Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli
• Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
• Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Atheltics, Business, and Life by Chungliang Al Huang, Jerry Lynch
• Attention by Joshua Cohen
• Quantum Social Science by Emmanuel Haven and Andrei Khrennikov
• Koinonia: From Hate Through Dialogue to Culture in the Larger Group by Patrick B. de Maré
• The Leadership Dance: Pathways to Extraordinary Organizational Effectiveness by Richard N. Knowles
• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
• The Dramatic Universe: The Foundations of Natural Philosphy by J.G. Bennett