Peripheral visions

Mary Catherine Bateson

Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Mary Catherine Bateson is our guide on a fascinating and surprising intellectual journey that offers a pattern for lifetime growth through learning from experience. In our rapidly changing and interdependent world the tasks of learning are never complete. Mary Catherine Bateson encourages the reader to cast aside familiar habits of learning and interacting so as to engage more successfully with the unexpected and participate in the diverse world which surrounds us. The key to her vision of learning is the discovery of pattern in the unfamiliar, treating it as a resource rather than a threat. Every new situation we encounter is laden with meanings - some immediately obvious, and others...

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