Investigating the Space of the Invisible

Conversation with Professor Arthur Zajonc
Amherst, MA
October 15th, 2003
Interview by Otto Scharmer

A. Summary with Links
B. Interview
  I. Childhood: Living in Two Worlds
  II. Entering University in 1967
  III. An Empty Vessel
  IV. Journey of Discovery: "A Whole Universe Opened Up"
  V. What Am I Here For? Which Way Do I Go?
  VI. The Eye of the Needle and Goethean Science
  VII. Three Stages of Goethean Science
  VIII. Real Knowledge is Seeing
  IX. Two Types of Science: Distancing from or Participating in the Phenomenon
  X. I'm Not Interested in Causality
  XI. The Observer
  XII. Goethe and Sheldrake
  XIII. Goethe and the Third Base for Valid Cognition in Buddhism
  XIV. Goethe, Steiner, and Contemplative Sciences
  XV. The Epistemological Reversal
  XVI. Quantum Physics
  XVII. The Capacity for Collective Presencing
  XVIII. Varela Meets Goethe and Steiner
  XIX. Most Men Are Not Good at Social Groups
  XX. The New Group Is a Group of Co-perception of the Other
  XXI. A Scientist - Dalai Lama Dialogue at MIT
  XXII. Other Centered Leadership
  XXIII. This Is It!
  XXIV. Developing the Selfless Self
C. Complete Interview (Acrobat PDF Download)