Francisco Cisco Pancho

AUTOBIOGRAPHY The personal history of Francisco Varela as told by him on his veranda in Monte Grande Chile on February 17 2001 when he was already greatly weakened by chemotherapy but still extremely present and awake three months before he died on May 28 2001 As very few before him have done Francisco Varela attained levels of accomplishment in Western science as well as in Buddhist philosophy and meditation ORAL ANTHOLOGY Individual interviews with Francisco Varela Amy Cohen Varela Bruno Latour HH Dalai Lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche and poems by Francisco Varela read by his father Raúl Varela Rodríguez