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Category Archives: Creative Systems Thinking
The Future of Education: To Focus on AI or MI ?
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein Right now two starkly different visions … Continue reading
システム革命、システム学習 – Systems Revolution in Learning
The systems view of science focuses on relationships, describing a universe where everything moves and flows like a river… All of the Japanese text here is from this article at the Change Agent website:「学習する学校」レポートより：「学習する組織」のアプローチ. It is followed by a translation in … Continue reading
The Prison Of Your Mind: Sean Stephenson
“The true prison is not surrounded by barbed wire, or electrical fences, the real prisons do not have guards. The real prison is up here. And we all got it.. True freedom is dropping down out of that mind. And … Continue reading
How We Learn to Compartmentalize
“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality..” ~Thich … Continue reading
The Doors of Perception – Aldous Huxley
“Each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Systems Thinking, mystic view, Uncategorized
Tagged mystical, nondual, zen
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Edu-Tech’s Brave New World – How Education Software is Being Designed to Hijack Children’s Brains
“Many parents intuitively understand that ubiquitous glowing screens are having a negative effect on kids. But it’s even worse than we think. Recent brain imaging research is showing that they affect the brain’s frontal cortex — which controls executive functioning, … Continue reading
The Houseboat Summit, 1967 – Alan Watts, Tim Leary, Allen Ginsberg & Gary Snyder
An extended conversation between Tim Leary, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg & Gary Snyder on the problem of whether to “drop out or take over” conducted on Alan Watts’ houseboat, the S.S. Vallejo, 50 years ago, in 1967… Alan Watts: This … Continue reading
Posted in Alan Watts, Creative Systems Thinking, cultural creatives
Tagged Alan Watts
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Happiness Cannot Be Pursued
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.” ~Paramahansa Yogananda For over 200 years “the pursuit of happiness” has been thought of as a self-evident truth and human … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Systems Thinking, Life's Purpose, zen
Tagged buddha, happiness, tao & zen
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Transcending the Illusion of Separateness
“The fanciful idea of a self is a contraction, a limitation of wholeness, real being. When this notion dies we find our natural expansion, stillness, globality without periphery or centre, outside or inside. Without the notion of an individual there … Continue reading
Gaia’s Dance: A Vision of Wholeness
“From a Gaian point of view, we humans are an experiment — a young trial species still at odds with ourselves and other species, still not having learned to balance our own dance within that of our whole planet…” ~Elisabet Sahtouris … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Systems Thinking, spiritual ecology
Tagged ecology, science, systems thinking
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