Russell, Helen. The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country. London: Icon Books, 2015. Hygge. Danish for something cozy, charming, or special. It is also the art of creating intimacy. Author Helen Russell explores how hygge might be one of the secrets of Denmark’s perennial position in the top ranks […]
Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 1689. Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 1797. Lewin, Kurt. Principles of Topological Psychology. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1936. Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Bartow, Jef. Resolving the Mysteries of Human Consciousness: […]
Waddell, Steve. “Four Strategies for Large Systems Change.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 16, no. 2 (2018): 40-45. To achieve societal outcomes for everyone, everywhere, everyday within any given social system requires bringing together peoples with access to different economic resources, different political decision making and enforcement systems, different values, and different organizing forms. It requires […]
Strogatz, Steven H. The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity. 2012, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Randall, Lisa. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions. 2006, New York: Harper Perennial. Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. ed, Mary Gregor, 2007, New York: Cambridge University Press. Some ideas […]
Klarman, Michael J. The Framer’s Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. 2016, New York: Oxford University Press. Kishtainy, Niall. A Little History of Economics. 2017, New Haven: Yale University Press. Are the agreements that we live with today, whether consciously chosen or unconsciously accepted, the only agreements that are possible? Are they “true,” in the sense […]
Bryanton, Rob. Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space. 2006, Oxford, UK: Trafford Publishing. For thousands of years, we had the rich inner pictures we perceived from elaborate storytelling. Then there were the 2D images in black-and-white then in color on the big movie screen. Now we have 3D images popping […]
Makari, George. Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. 2015, New York: W.W. Norton & Company. What am I as a human being? What is it to be human? I find that most of us ask those questions all of the time, thinking that we never ask them. We often say that these are philosophical questions, of little […]
Fuentes, Agustin. The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional. 2017, New York: Dutton. We human beings prefer experiences where our unique creative expression is invited into a group’s work, and where it is actively engaged, according to our survey research in 98 countries and our field research in 39 countries. In The Creative Spark, Professor Agustin Fuentes provides an […]
Bishop, Orland. The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey–From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop. 2017, Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books. Orland Bishop‘s new book, The Seventh Shrine, brings to light the deeper agreements we humans hold and can choose. Orland, who holds the Institute for Strategic Clarity 2016-2017 Homo lumens Fellowship, has explored agreements in many previous blogs here. Our awareness of […]
Lawlor, Robert. 1994. “Pythagorean Number as Form, Color, and Light,” in Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science, Christopher Bamford, ed., Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Books. In this chapter, Robert Lawlor explores the early observations on light of the great Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who lived 570 – c. 495 BC. Pythagoras, famous today for the Pythagorean Theorem, was a very influential philosopher […]
