by Evan Dwan | Apr 29, 2020 | News |
Culture can be understood as the social environment in which a person lives. Culture is the context in which energy and information is shared through patterns of interaction, rituals of behaviour, symbols and structures of the environment. Culture itself is a...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 29, 2020 | News |
Relationships – the energy and information shared between people – create habitual ways of being in the world through patterns of interaction. Styles of communication and ways of relating are passed on from one generation to another. These patterns occur within...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2020 | News |
What are mental activities? Mental activities are experiences that happen in the mind. When we describe what our minds are, or what happens in the mind, we are talking about mental activities. What are some of the things you are aware of in your mind? Mental...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2020 | News |
Albert Einstein wrote ‘The fish will be the last to discover the water’. What does this mean? It means that we often don’t see what is right in front of. Or what we are in the middle of. Take the mind, for example. What is the mind? It is the sea in which we swim and...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
In The patterning instinct, Jeremy Lent takes an approach to history called ‘cognitive history’. This approach holds that instead of history being determined exclusively by material causes like geography, economy, technology etc. the ‘will to meaning’ plays a...