Comments on: Gravity, love and exotic anticipation http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/gravity-love-and-exotic-anticipation/ building better businesses Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Col http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/gravity-love-and-exotic-anticipation/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Col Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:38:52 +0000 http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/?p=212#comment-69 Pat,its one of those pieces that on the one hand is pretty 'out there', yet it also reads as kind of self evident. My emotional response includes being conscious of how linear, segmented and rational we can be in tackling big questions. Swimme certainly challenges that, by not only being multi-disciplinary in the usual sense of that, but connecting other arenas not usually in dialogue. I finished off de Botton yesterday ... there is a great 'twist' at the end ... which you wouldn't typically say of a non-fiction piece ... he comes full circle on his 'escape London for the Barbados' story and unpacks Pascal's quote, 'The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quiet in his room.' Pat,its one of those pieces that on the one hand is pretty ‘out there’, yet it also reads as kind of self evident. My emotional response includes being conscious of how linear, segmented and rational we can be in tackling big questions. Swimme certainly challenges that, by not only being multi-disciplinary in the usual sense of that, but connecting other arenas not usually in dialogue.

I finished off de Botton yesterday … there is a great ‘twist’ at the end … which you wouldn’t typically say of a non-fiction piece … he comes full circle on his ‘escape London for the Barbados’ story and unpacks Pascal’s quote, ‘The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quiet in his room.’

]]> By: Pat http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/gravity-love-and-exotic-anticipation/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Pat Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:18:50 +0000 http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/?p=212#comment-67 Hey Col - sounds like you've got a stack of interesting reading lined up (and exciting travel, too). It's nice to see a mention of Brian Swimme & Green Dragon - the cosmology stuff is something my Dad has been into for quite a while, and I read that book around 10 years ago. I don't think much of it sunk in though - a decent portion of what it covered was probably beyond what I understood at that point - but I remember it sparking some interesting thoughts. Hey Col – sounds like you’ve got a stack of interesting reading lined up (and exciting travel, too).

It’s nice to see a mention of Brian Swimme & Green Dragon – the cosmology stuff is something my Dad has been into for quite a while, and I read that book around 10 years ago. I don’t think much of it sunk in though – a decent portion of what it covered was probably beyond what I understood at that point – but I remember it sparking some interesting thoughts.

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