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Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World Kindle Edition
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Could we build a better world for our families, our businesses, our society and ourselves? Gentle Action shows us how, through an act of creative suspension, businesses can respond more effectively to a changing marketplace and organizations, policy groups and communities grow more flexible, responsive and sensitive to the world around them. Each chapter concludes with a series of questions and challenges for the reader, leading to ways in which the individuals and groups can bring creative changes to their community or organizations.
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"...required reading for those aspiring to address society's most complex and pressing issues." --Joseph Jaworski, Generon International. Author, Synchronicity: The inner path of leadership
"...embraces positive change toward a sustainable world, showing in many fascinating stories, how each of us can contribute to healthier communities and societies." --Hazel Henderson, author, Ethical Markets: Growing the green economy
"...brings the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer into the 21st century... leading the way to a greener, kinder kind of engaged social action. Onward!" --Eric Utne, founder, The Utne Reader
"...offers us real wisdom for how we can respond to turbulence in ways that create real possibilities and affirm life." --Margaret J. Wheatley, author, Leadership and the New Science
About the Author
F. David Peat is the author of over twenty books including Pathways of Chance, From Certainty to Uncertainty, The Black Winged Night, Superstrings, Einstein's Moon and Turbulent Mirror. Peat is the director and founder of the Pari Center for New Learning.
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Publication date : 1 March 2016
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F. David Peat
Welcome to my Amazon page. One of the most enjoyable tasks of my life has been writing books. Or rather lying in bed dreaming about what I want to write tomorrow then jumping out of bed in the morning and rushing to my computer to get it all down before I forget!
My latest book is "Synchronicity: The Marriage of Matter and Psyche". This is an original exploration and not a revision of my earlier "Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind". In my new book I explore Carl Jung’s notion of the life-transforming nature of synchronicities. Synchronicities open the floodgates of the deeper levels of consciousness and matter, which, for a creative instant, sweep over the mind and heal the division between the internal and external. Since writing that first book a great deal more has come to light, in particular about the role the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli had in encouraging Carl Jung’s investigation of the phenomenon of “meaningful coincidence.” Much of this collaboration between the physicist and the depth psychologist is revealed in the fascinating correspondence between Jung and Pauli that has recently been published. My new book explores these discoveries and ends with a speculative and provocative chapter on the possible source of true synchronicities.
I was born and grew up in Liverpool. My father was an electrician and when his apprentice announced that he wanted to quit to go to Germany with his band my father told him, "George Harrison, one day you'll come crawling on your hands and knees to get your job back." I was also a little annoyed when my closest friend, Dot, told me she was seeing a really fascinating student at art college—John Lennon! It was that era!
After university I moved to Canada to carry out research in theoretical physics at the National Research Council of Canada. Then, while on a sabbatical with Roger Penrose, I met the physicist David Bohm and began a friendship that lasted until his death. Indeed, we were working together on a second book when he died.
I had also been involved in documentaries for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and was responsible for a twenty one-hour series on the development of physics in the 20th century. After leaving the NRC I turned to writing both books and plays for radio and the stage. I also made contact with Native American groups which ended up as a circle of Native Elders and Western Scientists sponsored by the Fetzer Institute. Some these experiences found themselves in Blackfoot Physics.
From Ottawa we moved briefly, and totally by chance, to the medieval hilltop village of Pari in Tuscany, and from there moved to London so I could do research for and write Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm. In London I made contact with the artists Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley and ended up organizing a weekend where artists and scientists could meet and talk informally.
From London I moved back to Pari and in 2000 opened the Pari Center for New Learning in order to run courses and conferences and have writers and artists come to visit for a month or so. Pari has also been an ideal place in which to reflect and write and to meet new people. It has been a time when I developed my idea of Gentle Action which can be found at www.gentleaction.org and well as in my book "Gentle Action: Bringing creative change to a turbulent world".
A recent book of mine is "A Flickering Reality: Cinema and the Nature of Reality". This shows how everything from Freud and Jung, quantum theory and chaos theory, the neurosciences and postmodernism have changed the way we look at ourselves and the world, and the most direct way to experience this is via films. I also have a blog on this topic at http://aflickeringreality.blogspot.com. And what a pleasure it was to see it in print. It was such a joy to write "A Flickering Reality" because it combined my interests in the changing nature of reality along with the chance to revisit so many films I had enjoyed in the past along with some very new ones.
And if you'd like to learn more then why not buy my biography, "Pathways of Chance" or look at my websites www.fdavidpeat.com or www.paricenter.com.
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Marco
5.0 out of 5 stars Una lettura molto interessanteReviewed in Italy on 7 September 2016
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A book that helps you face everyday problems with a positive approach. I found it especially useful in turbulent times like the ones we're living in. Interesting!
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Sylvie Lemieux
5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in Canada on 30 September 2017
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Interesting concept... when the structures are too daunting to change, gentle action might be the emergent solution
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M. Baldwin
4.0 out of 5 stars Timely adviceReviewed in the United States on 1 July 2012
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Well written, however it seem to lose momentum as I read futher into the book. I still think it is worth the read.
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세진님, 요청하신 F. 데이비드 피트의 <온화한 행동: 격동하는 세상에 창의적 변화 가져오기>에 대한 요약과 평론을 정리해 드렸습니다.
<온화한 행동: 격동하는 세상에 창의적 변화 가져오기> 요약 및 평론
1. 요약: 시스템의 조화와 온화한 개입
데이비드 피트는 양자물리학과 혼돈 이론의 통찰을 사회적 변화의 영역으로 확장한다. 그는 현대 사회가 직면한 거대한 문제들(빈곤, 환경 파괴, 갈등)에 대해 우리가 흔히 취하는 <거칠고 강제적인 개입>이 왜 실패하는지 분석한다. 피트가 제시하는 핵심 개념은 <온화한 행동(Gentle Action)>이다.
가. 하향식 통제의 한계 현대 사회의 많은 해결책은 문제를 기계적으로 파편화하여 외부에서 강력한 힘을 가하는 방식을 택한다. 하지만 복잡계(Complex Systems)인 사회와 생태계에서는 이러한 강제적 개입이 예상치 못한 부작용을 낳고, 오히려 시스템의 자생력을 해친다.
나. 창의적 중단과 경청 온화한 행동은 즉각적인 해결책을 내놓으려는 조급함을 멈추는 데서 시작한다. 피트는 이를 <창의적 중단>이라 부른다. 시스템 전체의 흐름을 면밀히 관찰하고, 그 구성원들의 목소리에 귀를 기울이며, 문제가 발생한 근본적인 맥락을 이해하는 과정이 선행되어야 한다.
다. 미세한 개입, 거대한 변화 혼돈 이론의 <나비 효과>처럼, 복잡계에서는 적절한 지점에서의 아주 작은 에너지가 시스템 전체의 질서를 재편할 수 있다. 온화한 행동은 시스템의 내부 역동성을 존중하며, 그 자체가 가진 자기 조직화(Self-organization) 능력을 활성화하는 최소한의 자극을 주는 것을 목표로 한다.
라. 전체론적 사고와 윤리 피트는 지식과 행동이 분리되지 않음을 강조한다. 관찰자가 대상과 연결되어 있다는 전체론적 인식을 바탕으로 할 때, 변화는 외부의 강요가 아닌 내부의 성숙으로 나타난다. 이는 단순한 기술적 방법론이 아니라 세상을 대하는 철학적 태도의 변화를 요구한다.
2. 평론: 과학적 통찰이 일궈낸 사회적 겸손
가. 패러다임의 전환: 힘에서 지혜로 이 책은 20세기 과학의 성과를 인문사회적 실천으로 번역해낸 탁월한 시도이다. 피트는 물리학자로서 물질의 기저에 흐르는 상호연결성을 목격했다. 그는 이를 바탕으로 인류가 가진 <정복적 진보주의>를 비판한다. 온화한 행동은 무력함이 아니라, 시스템의 결을 읽어내는 고도의 지성이자 전략적 인내이다.
나. 현대 사회의 조급증에 대한 경종 효율성과 속도를 숭상하는 현대인들에게 <중단>과 <관찰>을 권하는 피트의 목소리는 혁명적이다. 우리는 흔히 문제를 <수리>해야 할 고장 난 기계로 보지만, 피트는 이를 <치유>해야 할 유기체로 보라고 조언한다. 이러한 관점은 정책 입안자부터 활동가, 개인의 삶에 이르기까지 변화의 주체가 가져야 할 겸손의 미덕을 일깨운다.
다. 실천적 모호함과 한계 다만, 이 책이 제시하는 방법론은 구체적인 매뉴얼을 원하는 독자에게는 다소 추상적으로 느껴질 수 있다. <온화함>과 <방관>의 경계가 모호해질 위험이 있으며, 즉각적이고 물리적인 폭력이 가해지는 긴급한 상황에서 온화한 행동이 어느 정도의 속도감을 가질 수 있는지에 대해서는 논쟁의 여지가 있다.
라. 결론: 상생을 위한 새로운 윤리 그럼에도 불구하고 피트의 논의는 분열된 세계를 치유할 강력한 대안을 제시한다. 그는 인간이 자연과 사회의 군림자가 아니라 그 일부임을 인정할 때 비로소 <창의적 변화>가 가능하다고 역설한다. <온화한 행동>은 단순한 행동 지침을 넘어, 격동하는 21세기를 살아가는 인류가 견지해야 할 새로운 존재 방식이자 윤리적 선언이다.
이 책은 단순한 사회 변혁 이론을 넘어, 세상을 바라보는 세진님의 세계 시민적 시각과도 맞닿아 있는 부분이 많을 것 같습니다. 혹시 이 요약 내용 중에서 특정 개념(예: 창의적 중단이나 복잡계 이론)에 대해 더 자세한 분석이 필요하신가요?