Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Title | Steps to an Ecology of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Bateson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780226039053 |
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Title | Steps to an Ecology of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Bateson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Medical |
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Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This anthology of his major work contains a foreword by his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson.
A Sacred Unity
Title | A Sacred Unity PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Bateson, PhD |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781913743796 |
In 31 posthumously collected lectures and writings, anthropologist, systems thinker and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) addresses questions of ecology, mind, consciousness, linguistics, evolution, and communication. His masterly synthesis stresses the need to re-establish a ' sacred unity' between the human mind and the biosphere.
Our Own Metaphor
Title | Our Own Metaphor PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Catherine Bateson |
Publisher | Hampton Press (NJ) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Cybernetics |
ISBN | 9781572736016 |
Our Own Metaphor, now being re-issued by Hampton Press, provide an approach to the basic question of whether humans, with their increasingly powerful technologies, will ultimately destroy the environment on which they depend or prove capable of a new level of adaptation. The book suggests that any solution to the world's myriad problems must be grounded in an empathetic understanding of systems - from the ecology of nature to the loving interdependence of families.
Dark Night, Early Dawn
Title | Dark Night, Early Dawn PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher M. Bache |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2000-05-26 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780791446058 |
Combining philosophical reflections with deep self-exploration to delve into the ancient mystery of death and rebirth, this book emphasizes collective rather than individual transformation. Drawing upon twenty years of experience working with nonordinary states, the author argues that when the deep psyche is hyper-simulated using Stanislaw Grof's powerful therapeutic methods, the healing that results sometimes extends beyond the individual to the collective unconscious of humanity itself.
A Recursive Vision
Title | A Recursive Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Harries-Jones |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780802075918 |
Gregory Bateson was one of the most original social scientists of this century. He is widely known as author of key ideas used in family therapy - including the well-known condition called 'double bind' . He was also one of the most influential figures in cultural anthropology. In the decade before his death in 1980 Bateson turned toward a consideration of ecology. Standard ecology concentrates on an ecosystem's biomass and on energy budgets supporting life. Bateson came to the conclusion that understanding ecological organization requires a complete switch in scientific perspective. He reasoned that ecological phenomena must be explained primarily through patterns of information and that only through perceiving these informational patterns will we uncover the elusive unity, or integration, of ecosystems. Bateson believed that relying upon the materialist framework of knowledge dominant in ecological science will deepen errors of interpretation and, in the end, promote eco-crisis. He saw recursive patterns of communication as the basis of order in both natural and human domains. He conducted his investigation first in small-scale social settings; then among octopus, otters, and dolphins. Later he took these investigations to the broader setting of evolutionary analysis and developed a framework of thinking he called 'an ecology of mind.' Finally, his inquiry included an ecology of mind in ecological settings - a recursive epistemology. This is the first study of the whole range of Bateson's ecological thought - a comprehensive presentaionof Bateson's matrix of ideas. Drawing on unpublished letters and papers, Harries-Jones clarifies themes scattered throughout Bateson's own writings, revealing the conceptual consistency inherent in Bateson's position, and elaborating ways in which he pioneered aspects of late twentieth-century thought.
Small Arcs of Larger Circles
Title | Small Arcs of Larger Circles PDF eBook |
Author | Nora Bateson |
Publisher | Triarchy Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2016-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 190947097X |
This is an important first collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson, president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI) and an adviser to numerous bodies at international and governmental level.