Evolving Self excerpt

on universal impulse I find myself looking for a good excerpt from The Evolving Self (one of my favorite books) today to post to you. And I happen upon this blog that just posted this 2 days ago. 'good timing' if you believe in time;)no? an excerpt which also 'happens' to deal with distributed memory...ha.
I sincerely echo the intro/praise to the book here as well.thanks universe;)

The Power of Love & Trascendance - an excerpt from Csikszentmihalyi's Evolving Self
"One of the men who most influenced my perspective on the modern world is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I'm still amazed that Csikszentmihalyi's book The Evolving Self isn't continually cited. It gets my vote as the most overlooked and underappreciated books of our time.

Central to his thesis is the notion that a fully developed self comes from two often competing needs: the movements towards greater complexity and integration of that complexity into harmony, bringing those disparate elements into a whole self. Complexity results from pursuit of what makes us individuals, and he calls a person joyfully invested in complex goals a transcender. What follows is an excerpt of Evolving Self, using the Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy as an example.read the excerpt on R World blog

Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally chang

"This an amazing talk about brains and brain theory from the guy who invented the PalmPilot. Totally worth 20 minutes of your life."- Jordon of cogsigh.blogspot.com

agreed. and I actually think I may be a bit in love. there's something so thrilling about an absurdly rapid yet completely comprehensible speaker on a topic of major personal interest. My heart was beating faster and I want to be him and eat him at the same time. that's love on your planet, right?;)