http://metapractice.livejournal.com/130917.htmlAn Ecology of Mind is a portrait of Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, and systems theorist. His story is lovingly told by his youngest daughter, Nora, with footage from Gregory’s own films shot in the 1930s with Margaret Mead in Bali and New Guinea, along with photographs, filmed lectures, and interviews.
Gregory Bateson was a man who studied the interrelationships of the complex systems we live in with scientific rigor and enormous integrity. Nora’s discovery of her father’s work documents the vast and continuing influence his thinking has had on an amazingly wide range of disciplines. Through contemporary interviews coupled with his own words, the enormous challenges confronting the human race and…