Patterns That Connect
January 27, 2020
This is a fascinating video showing the movement of a school of striped eel catfish moving collectively almost as a single entity, reminiscent of flocks of sparrows behaving similarly but in the air, not under water. It also brings to mind Gregory Bateson’s great 1972 book, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity;, in which he discusses observable and recognizable patterns in nature from an epistemological perspective. Knowing can and does take place of systems and meta-systems through observation of “patterns that connect”.
January 15, 2011 5:45 PM
January 15, 2011
Those of you who have visited here before will surely notice a change in the design of this blog. After a long period of re-imagining I have decided to change the course of this blog. It will still be named “Knowing Imagination” and subtitled “Musings on the power of the imagination” but the focus will now be quite different.
I have been posting on anything I found interesting around the internet that had to do with the subject of the imagination and I tried to pay for the costs of the hosting of the blog with Google ads and affiliations to sell products that were relevant. Since this generated no significant revenue- and served to clutter the site with too much distraction- I have dropped that for the foreseeable future.
The new content will be focussed on thoughts, ideas, and other relevant comments that will eventuate in the completion of a book I have been working on- off and on- for some time. The working title of this book is, “The Inward Eye”, and is a guide to using the imagination for growing, learning, and healing.
I hope you will find this interesting. I invite you to comment with the hope that I may gain encouragement and insight from your contributions. Stay tuned.
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