tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6943257212890271016.post6432563924721089001..comments2023-05-16T03:11:24.605-07:00Comments on DeliberateLife.com: Somewhere in the Mind of George Lucas There is a YodaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6943257212890271016.post-9631208534380362082008-12-15T08:03:00.000-08:002008-12-15T08:03:00.000-08:00Bless you! I tell it like I see it :)I'd like to c...Bless you! I tell it like I see it :)<BR/><BR/>I'd like to check out Daniel Quinn. Is there a book of his you'd recommend to start with?<BR/><BR/>Brody is absolutely wonderful - a treat to read, and to quote copiously! He is an anthropologist who has worked many a long year with the Inuit and other tribes in Canada's north. So I guess you should be able to find his book pretty easily.Steve Lancasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11372895191510424827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6943257212890271016.post-80380357102932907412008-12-14T10:20:00.000-08:002008-12-14T10:20:00.000-08:00Steve, thanks so much... one of the best complimen...Steve, thanks so much... one of the best compliments on my blog ever! lol <BR/><BR/>I have not read Hugh Brody, but it sounds very interesting - something that should be in my library right next to Daniel Quinn. <BR/><BR/>Thanks again, you made my day. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6943257212890271016.post-28435310028306968472008-12-12T13:28:00.000-08:002008-12-12T13:28:00.000-08:00This is so true!Have you read Hugh Brody on the di...This is so true!<BR/><BR/>Have you read Hugh Brody on the differences between hunter-gatherers and farmers? I've found his book "The Other Side of Eden" brilliant on what he calls analogue versus digital thinking. Digital thinking is black/white; right/wrong etc. Whereas analogue is event by event, open to all shades of grey, because there is not a prior attempt to classify. He links this to mythical thinking: accepting what is, very pre-verbal, very image-oriented. The words come later.<BR/><BR/>And your post also reminded me of the distinction between metonymic and metaphoric thinking - in linguistics, the first is logical, linear, scientific; the second about likenesses. Because it links objects if they seem like one another, rather than follow on from one another, it's like surveying a landscape for similarities, and in this sense is broad rather than linear.<BR/><BR/>My passion is for stories. It struck me that stories need both a linear structure and a broad structure to work. In the same way, Einstein did the equations (linear), but dreamt of riding on a rainbow first (metaphoric). That enabled him to make a genuine discovery about relativity...<BR/><BR/>I do think you're on the crest of a major culture shift - why I find this blog so worthwhile and yes, inspirational.Steve Lancasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11372895191510424827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6943257212890271016.post-75585542804479461562008-12-11T02:16:00.000-08:002008-12-11T02:16:00.000-08:00I'm a strong believer in recogising that perceptio...I'm a strong believer in recogising that perception is everything.<BR/><BR/>Isn't great how it can affect our parenting for the better?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11863793441609598153noreply@blogger.com