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 18, 2020 | News |
The philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that we can ‘see’ our minds and how our experience of the world is structured. He called this ‘intuition’ – seeing the structure of consciousness. This intuitive seeing brings something into presence in our experience. Intuition,...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2020 | News |
Observation without evaluation “You can learn a lot just by watching” – Yogi Berra What happens when we observe something without evaluating it? The primary way we ‘know’ something is pre-conceptual – it comes before thoughts and ideas. The normal way we process...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2020 | News |
At the beginning of the 20th century a radical shift in thinking began. There started to emerge a ‘paradigm shift’ in science from the old ‘mechanistic’ way of thinking about the world to an ecological worldview. The mechanistic worldview held that the world and...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 16, 2020 | News |
Goethe, through his naturphilosophie, strove to bring together two different ways of knowing – empirical observation and spiritual intuition. According to Goethe, the scientist could not access the deeper truths of nature through detachment, abstractions, or ‘stepping...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 15, 2020 | News |
In Poetry and Story therapy, Geri Giebel Chavis, writes that poetry has always played a special role in the history of healing. Medicine men and shamans in ancient civilization chanted poems as part of their healing rituals. In ancient Greece, Apollo represents poetry...
