Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
a German physicist named Fritz-Albert Popp had stumbled upon the fact that all living things, from the most basic of single-celled plants to the most sophisticated of organisms like human beings, emitted a constant tiny current of photons—tiny particles of light.15
Lynne McTaggart • The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
Roger's Bacon • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead
Allen and Sandow’s view of social systems was influenced by the Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana, who is famous for his pioneering studies of cognition in living systems. Maturana says that intelligent action is created in social systems where all the members of a network accept the others as legitimate participants in the network.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
An enormous number of people have influenced my thinking, but three were particularly important: William Braud, Barbara Babcock, and Edmund Leach. Parapsychologist William Braud integrated an enormous range of findings with his model of lability and inertia in psi processes. Barbara Babcock is the most significant interpreter of the trickster
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
Multiple Selves
Selves are signs. Lives are thoughts. Semiosis is alive. And the world is thereby animate.
We humans are not the only ones who do things for the sake of a future by re-presenting it in the present. All living selves do this in some way or another. Representation, purpose, and future are in the world—and not just in that part of the
... See moreThe power of metaphors
Throughout the event, symbols and metaphors were summoned to achieve a common understanding of complex concepts: the Celtic Trinity, the caterpillar and the butterfly, the Phoenix bird, the rhino and the immortal jellyfish (kudos to Josh!); however, the murmuring of starlings stole the show, as they were chosen to represent
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