Towards a Thinking which is Alive
Relating processes of transformation and metamorphosis in nature to a deeper understanding and perception of these processes in ourselves and in our social context.
(A one-week residential at Towerland Wilderness, August 2011)
Craig and Henrike Holdrege are leading Goethean scholars, scientists, researchers, writers and teachers in the English-speaking world. Their work has taken their thinking in various directions, where they have become masters at making accessible a practice and body of knowledge that often may seem obscure, simply because the grasp of its leading ideas demands an experience – as well as the rigorous exercising – of both imagination and observation. During this week they worked with participants on developing the eyes and the understanding to apprehend processes of transformation and metamorphosis as they occur in nature, thus stretching our thinking into places that herald a new and very different form of consciousness. Insights gained through these days then engaged with individual and cultural processes in order to build this new way of thinking into a foundation for a new ‘ecological’ consciousness that embraces living thinking.
For the most part, The Proteus Initiative hosted rather than facilitated this process, but also played a role in enabling Towerland Wilderness to yield some of its ‘open secrets’ towards further engagement with the implications of this new way of seeing. Insights from this process are being incorporated in the paper mentioned above.
(A one-week residential at Towerland Wilderness, August 2011)
Craig and Henrike Holdrege are leading Goethean scholars, scientists, researchers, writers and teachers in the English-speaking world. Their work has taken their thinking in various directions, where they have become masters at making accessible a practice and body of knowledge that often may seem obscure, simply because the grasp of its leading ideas demands an experience – as well as the rigorous exercising – of both imagination and observation. During this week they worked with participants on developing the eyes and the understanding to apprehend processes of transformation and metamorphosis as they occur in nature, thus stretching our thinking into places that herald a new and very different form of consciousness. Insights gained through these days then engaged with individual and cultural processes in order to build this new way of thinking into a foundation for a new ‘ecological’ consciousness that embraces living thinking.
For the most part, The Proteus Initiative hosted rather than facilitated this process, but also played a role in enabling Towerland Wilderness to yield some of its ‘open secrets’ towards further engagement with the implications of this new way of seeing. Insights from this process are being incorporated in the paper mentioned above.