From a Brian Holmes posting to nettime, 18 Aug 2007.

The book is called Our Own Metaphor, and it includes at the end these statements by Mary Catherine Bateson: 
"Any kind of a representation within a person of something outside depends on there being sufficient diversity within him to reflect the relationships in what he perceives... The possibility of seeing something, the possibility of talking about it and probably the possibility of loving, depends in every case on arriving in yourself at a comparable complexity... We can't relate to anything unless we can express its complexity through the diversity that is ourselves."
This was more or less the meaning what she got out of the conference (referring to a week-lomg seminar held at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, in 1968, involving her father Gregory Bateson) which is the idea that "Every person is his own central metaphor."