How do we make sense of things? At a meta-level, how do we make sense of the way we make sense of things? Making Sense of Sense-making is the title of an article by Thompson & Stapleton first published on-line on 20th December 2008. It is subtitled ‘Reflections on Enactive and Extended Mind Theories’. For […]
Reflections after Reading Certain Pages in JGBennett’s Talks on Beelzebub’s Tales (Samuel Weiser Inc 1993 (second printing, pages 60-65) ISBN 0-87728-680-9 In these pages, Bennett talks about what, in relation to Milton Erickson’s style, has in quite recent years come to be called ‘Artful Vagueness’. What Bennett says can be used more generally to assess […]
In this dream I was running the kind of drama class I used to facilitate over thirty years ago: strange drama, dream drama, mirroring the assumed ‘reality’ that went on outside the room we regularly used for an evening; the virtual question was always, ‘Which was the drama—outside or inside the dream?’ In this particular […]
It’s about forty years since I first came seriously across something called The Fourth Way. Although when I go back even further in time I did read in the then brilliant Daily Express satirical column ‘By the Way by Beachcomber’ about a crackpot philosophy that was all the rage in certain quarters in the 1950’s. […]
Nanjing 1992. Behind us, a group of Japanese tourists, many of them probably the sons and daughters of the perpetrators of the 1937 massacre, created a great fuss when they came late into a performance at the Chinese opera. Seemingly oblivious of the fact that the orchestra suddenly modified its playing to contain a lot […]
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