I first came across the idea of the numinous when I picked up a second hand copy of Rudolf Otto’s book The Idea of the Holy which I picked up on one the Ampleforth retreats I mentioned in a previous post. Otto saw the idea of holy as conveying moral perfection, but he saw the …
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Twelvetide 18:09 habits & the soul
One of those quotes from the bible that most people are, at least in the western tradition, aware of comes from Mark 8:36 “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Fewer people recall the context with ease – its the point where the …
Twelvetide 18:08 meaning making
Some years ago I was at an Academy of Management meeting in Washington DC to receive an award for original contributions to the field of knowledge management. As a part of that I had to make a presentation of an early version of Cynefin to a well educated audience and get immediate responses from Max …