September 2009
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general update, future destinations...and an...
Hello everyone
As some of you who know me may know, I am set to leave London in January - it’s been an amazing 8 years, but I feel the current is now taking me elsewhere.
On the 7th January 2010 I am flying to Mexico, where I will be based for around 5 months I expect. I will be living, working, teaching and learning in a small community on the West Coast, Near Mazatlan. This is the...
Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for practical wisdom as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.
Over the billions of years that the earth spins in its groove, incredible things happen - matter self-organises into life, life self-organises into mind.
What if the evolution of consciousness, rather than an adaptive quirk of the brain, was actually the central drama, purpose and point, of our whole show? There are, as we shall see, philosophers and psychoanalysts, mystics and physicists who...