An Ecology Of Mind

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Product Description ------------------- An 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 in the 1930s with his wife 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. His theories, such as "the double bind" and "the pattern which connects", continue to impact the fields of anthropology, psychiatry, information science, cybernetics, urban planning, biology, and ecology, challenging people to think in new ways. Through this film, Nora Bateson sets out to show that his ideas are not just fodder for academic theory, but can help instruct a way of life. She presents his thinking using a richly personal perspective, focusing on the stories Bateson used to present his ideas and how the beauty of life itself provided the framework of his life's pursuits. The DVD includes extended interviews with Mary Catherine Bateson, Fritjof Capra, Jerry Brown, Terry Deacon, and Tim Keanini, plus scene selection and SDH captions for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Review ------ "Nora Bateson's portrait of her her allows us to delight in his delight, to share his infectious love for thinking and being. It is the most enjoyable way I know to get a dose of the systems thinking that our society so sorely needs." --Dorion Sagen, Author, The Sciences of Avatar: From Anthropology to Xenology, Co-Author, Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence "Exquisite...The film conveys [Bateson's] complex ideas in such a way as to take us right inside them so that we see them as clearly as pebbles in a crystalline ain stream. That the film accomplishes this is a testament to the filmmaker's artistry and her grasp of her her's subtle and unique style of thinking...A beautiful and important film." --Dr. Marilyn Wedge, Huffington Post "Many attributes of Gregory Bateson's life and work are conveyed in the film, but most importantly, it has the power to change the way you see...You will find that you are not looking as things at all, you are looking at patterns of relationship--here and there, now and then, hers and daughters, hers and sons, teachers and students, animals and humans, humans and the earth, and even two cups sitting on a table." --Enlightenment Next Magazine