Peripheral visions

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…