Books

We are very into books here at Authentic Blogging. The way they sit in your hand, by your bedside. The way you can hold them up and pass them to each other to share.

There are several books that have been a major inspiration for our approach to blogging. Their wisdom and examples have been synthesised into our own experiences blogging and teaching blogging, and just living in the world, doing business, particating in dialogue.

Here they are:

Naked Conversations – no surprises there

The New Rules of Marketing & PR – or there

The Artist’s Way – recovering your creative self

Writing Down the Bones – connecting with your passion and truth

On Dialogue – connecting with your own and the truth of others, towards evolving high level, progressive answers to any human problems or opportunities – from war in the middle east to how to sell a widget

On Becoming – self education in the fullest sense of the word

Authentic Blogging (in development right here and now… join the conversation!)

Read our free e-book on the Essence of Authentic Blogging to find links and quotes that bring it all together. Blogging for purpose and pleasure. For personal and professional growth and enterprise success. For entering the new communications paradigm with authenticity and strength, engaging and participating, connecting with your self and your world as you grow.

Starting with the self and radiating out from the there.

Take part in truth

Let’s get back to the root philosophy of blogging.

So David Bohm’s the one. Well one of them. “On Dialogue” takes me back to the core of the work I was doing as an undergrad at Murdoch with Structure, Thought and Reality.

The whole discipline and practice of communication theory never ceases to underpin my thinking and excite me. Guess I chose the right course age 17, no matter how meandering it has been. Or it chose me…

And one day soon I will get focussed on bringing all this deep, rich content into the blogging course more specifically. Want to get much more visual here too. But the wikipedia entry for communication theory is a good place to start.

Now there I am showing Tom Nixon the book at this networking thingy tonight (he’s a bit lovely btw). I’ve been thinking for years how important the Dalai Lama’s words on our need for genuine dialogue were. Something small and inconsequential passing comment like… the only thing that will save humanity from the endless cycle of pain and suffering is… yep, dialogue, or something like that.

Then there HHDL is in the front blurb saying good old Dave Bohm is one of his “scientific gurus”. So I guess we’re on the right path here dear people.

“During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, television, air travel and satellites has woven a network of communications which puts each part of the world into almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at every moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.”

The question of how we can communicate better is at the heart of On Dialogue. This revised and expanded edition is the most comprehensive documentation to date of best-selling author David Bohm’s dialogical world view.

I’m going to reflect and share more from it as I go on. For now, here’s the link for those that just know they have to get into it now.

I’m delighted that his name hides “ohm” (mani padme hum) in something Oppenheimer, David and friends helped blow the world up with, before they saw they light… He became a real peacenik after all.

All seems rather spooky and perfect from where I’m sitting <grin>.