Posted in blogging, resources, serendipity on Feb 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
…added “Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104” to the blogroll. Evidently Ed is a librarian and so his attention surplus disorder is expressed through his blog’s rich captures of diverse resources. This earns his blog the ‘all over the place category’ here.
The curious thing is that I learned of Vacuum when Ed […]
Posted in Arthur Young, anthropology, outsider research, philosophy, resources, science, transformative learning on Aug 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Arthur M. Young wrote two little read albeit influential and (to me) essential books, both published in 1976: The Geometry of Meaning and The Reflexive Universe. Along with the alchemical writings of C.G.Jung, they are the most important contemporary books about quaternity and ‘anthropo’ process. Young/Jung’s research inform SQ1’s model of exploratory learning; this is […]
Posted in anthropology, mythology, resources on Jul 12th, 2006 No Comments »
Found under Blackfoot Creation and Origin Myths at D.S. Ashiliman’s brilliant, indexed resource of folklore.
Order of Life and Death
There was once a time when there were but two persons in the world, Old Man and Old Woman. One time, when they were traveling about, Old Man met Old Woman, who said, “Now, let us come […]
Posted in experiential learning, new paradigms, resources on Feb 26th, 2006 No Comments »
…is pairs, dichotomies, opposites, twins, binary, polarities, poles, doubles, dyads, dialog, duo, dual…
Which led me to the Pairs subset in the Twexus galleries,
Twexus pairs
Posted in language, resources on Feb 20th, 2006 No Comments »
There are lots of portals for word freaks. I highlight the Encyberpedia because, when you scroll down its list of dictionaries, glossaries and thesauri, you get to the middle choice. It’s Glossary Heaven when you do!
My current fave is A Glossary of Frequently Misused or Misunderstood Physics Terms and Concepts.
Posted in education, experiential learning, psychology, resources on Sep 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
Experiential-researchers.org is a valuable resource. Much of its content reflects its mission: to grapple smartly with the conundrum of legitimizing methodologies aimed at improving ultimately subjective re-orderings of constitutive personality and personality’s (i.e. persons,) functioning.
This is, of course, a longstanding problem; psychology’s equivalent of philosophy’s mind/body problem. One can research the means and ends […]
Posted in buddhism, humor, resources, transformative learning on Sep 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
A monk asked Kegon, “How does an enlightened one return to the ordinary world?” Kegon replied, “A broken mirror never reflects again; fallen flowers never go back to the old branches.”
Zen joke from: Lighter Side of Zen Buddhism:
Q: What did one Zen practitioner give to another for his/her birthday?
A: Nothing.
Q: What did the birthday boy/girl […]
Posted in management, new paradigms, organizational development, resources on Jul 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
Wow. Value Based Management.net is a goldmine. Almost every resource is linked internally to pithy descriptions of conceptual and methodological frameworks. The amount of material is overwhelming. The search engine allows me to note important omissions, such as no no mention of Appreciative Inquiry, but, with a jungle so amazonian, so what?
Posted in cognitive psychology, critical thinking, resources on May 12th, 2005 No Comments »
Reasoning implements thinking habits. Those habits may be advantageous, or not!
A few quick gleanings from the web in the direction of breaking away.
Provocative Ideas @imaginization
A.L.Tenner-Learning From Paradox
Metasystem Transition @Principia Cybernetica
Metasystem Transition Theory @ PC
Nasruddin jokes one two
Creativity Techniques
Inheriting from the Innovators
Posted in general semantics, psychology, resources on May 9th, 2005 No Comments »
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. - P.W. Bridgman
…from a terrific, short page of quotations @The Dallas/Fort Worth Center for General Semantics. Alfred Korzybski figures into my worldview and frames specific reflections on research greatly, but, […]
Posted in quotes, resources, sufism on May 7th, 2005 No Comments »
If you could give up tricks and cleverness, this would be the cleverest trick!
Rumi was one of the great lanterns of experiential spirituality and Sufism. Today, not only is Rumi the most read poet in the world, his work imbues many spiritual ’schools’ with important psychological, esoteric and yogic principles and methods.
Who was Rumi? What […]
Posted in adult learning, cognitive psychology, psychology, resources on Apr 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Being a constructivist by (part of my acquired) nature, (okay…a “folk” constructivist!) I nonetheless am discrete about laying out this most commonsensical position in my work. After all, it’s a prejudice too.
Because constructivist theory, models, and perspectives fit nicely with much of cognitive science, the psychology of learning, social psychology, and depth psychology, its […]
Posted in a-ha!, resources on Apr 16th, 2005 No Comments »
My favorite web stimulation from last year, courtesy of edge.org.
“WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?”
Posted in dr. puck riffs, resources, urbanology on Mar 7th, 2005 No Comments »
Cleveland, Ohio, (post-modernized to be “NEO”) is where I’m at. It’s a region slogging through its post-industrial dark night: post-industrial, ambivalent, self-deprecating, unfashionable, fragmented, and liminal. It’s neither old or new age, nor is it progressive or regressive. NEOland is poor at its heart and wealthy at its extremities. Creative energy moves fitfully through its […]
Posted in erotica, metaphysics, philosophy, psychology, resources on Feb 16th, 2005 No Comments »
The web site is an old school vertical sprawl, the subjects under consideration endless in number and magnitude, the format dialectical, yet, it’s the darn pragmatic mission I wish to highlight:
As you may realise from reading this website, my partner (philosopher Geoff Haselhurst) and I are building a large philosophy website which is the source […]
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