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Understanding Gregory Bateson: Mind, Beauty and the Sacred Earth

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• Noel's self introduction: Gregory Bateson – and how I came to know and understand his work

Noel's other texts on Bateson:

• GreenSpirit article, Treading Where Angels Fear: Gregory Bateson and Green Spirituality, 2004.
• Initiative article, Common Ground: the Living Earth as Sacred, 2004.
• Bateson Centenary Colloquium, Copenhagen University, 2005, Bateson and the Sacred.
• Deep Ecology – Arne Naess.
• Gaia Theory – James Lovelock.
• MA Dissertation – Mind, Systems and the Sacred: a Paradigm Change in Values for Environmental Survival? May be seen at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/awaymave/onlineresources/noel%20charlton.rtf

Key Thoughts

• Bateson on Minds and Mental Process
• Bateson on Beauty and Grace
• Bateson on The Sacred

Other Websites related to Gregory Bateson and to his Daughter Mary Catherine Bateson

• http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge76.html Refers to Mary Catherine Bateson (GB's daughter) and her writings.
• http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/bateson_mary.html Also about Mary Catherine Bateson.
• http://www.library.utoronto.ca/see/SEED/Vol4-1/Editorial.htm 2004 centenary celebration article in University of Toronto Journal.
• http://www.crazytigerinstitute.com/index.htm Website of Rodney E. Donaldson, editor of Bateson's later work - published in "A Sacred Unity".
• http://www.crazytigerinstitute.com/batesonarch.htm Part of Donaldson's website (above) - a guide to the use of the Bateson Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (This archive was initially assembled by Donaldson)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson Wikepedia entry on Gregory Bateson.
• http://www.oikos.org/baten.htm Bateson site with articles, a biography etc.
• http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/bateson.html Bateson articles and reference material; University of Colorado.
• http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rxv/people/bateson.htm Bateson reference material.
• http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/bateson_gregory.html A Bateson biography written by students of Minnesota University.
• http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bateson04/bateson04_index.html A lengthy article by John Brockman about Bateson's life and work, also about his own relationship with GB and his writing of "About Gregory Bateson".
• http://www.burlgrey.com/constructivism/cyberneticsgb.htm Notes and excerpts from "Steps to an Ecology of Mind".
• http://www.interculturalstudies.org/Bateson/index.html Institute for Intercultural Studies website page on Bateson - with further references.