Three Bones Theory and the Sensory Stations of the Deep Core: a story about your body.
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How Do We Know?
How do we know? How do we know Nature? How do we know ourselves? The knowledge that we need is not provided by the intellect and the five external senses. This our exteroceptive sensory motor system. This is how we manipulate and control things. At this point in history science is the problem and not…
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Prosocial Embodiment Workshop 4: The Big Toe
Online, Monday July 15 2:30PM PDT (GMT-7) The big toe, the axial line of the body, and the ground.It is surprising how important the big toe is for our posture, our stability, and our sense of groundedness. When we ground ourselves in the feet properly our entire structure feels more balanced. Come and learn about…
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Why don’t you get out of your chair?
When you know it’s killing you? The body is prosocial. This does not just mean that it is, in its fundamental evolutionary function and sttructure, complex and interdependent, harmonious, cooperative and metastable. It also means that it needs many things from others and from the environment. These are necessary and not optional. Is your ecosystem…
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Prosocial Embodiment Workshop
Prosocial Embodiment Workshop online, next Monday 5/20 2:30pm PST, 5:30pm EST Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/72929362759?pwd=Oi8bln5Z4sa6TnYr9M3BjkxoyQDlbF.1 I hope you will join us this coming Monday to explore the somatic and social significance of the sensitive axial line of the body, the deep core, as well as one of its major subsystems, the orofacial complex. Learn the synergistic…
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The Rectification of Names: The case of the false anatomical shooulder.
We will be looking at four major body parts. (These are not in a particular order.) Three are real, one is not. The Oxford English dictionary definition of the shoulder is false. Despite its universal acceptance the shoulder has no actual function in our skeletal structure. It does not exist. There is no bony basis…
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Metastability and Consilience.
A natural and simple body-wide myofascial metastability sufficient to sustain consilience.
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Foot Therapy
A little bit about the feet The foot has a tripod structure. You can feel this when you move or walk. The five toes are important as is the ankle joint. The big toe is especially important as it is a major element of the deep core. Keeping the structure of the foot mobile will…
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Are we our bodies or are we our minds?
Are we our bodies or are we our minds? Is the purpose of the human mind power over or power with? Is the direction of human thought up or down? Is abstract reason the only form of rationality? As the power of the human mind expands through history and technology, does it expand outward or…
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Touch, the absence of touch, and trauma. Reflections on the recent 2023 USABP Annual Meeting.
In a world where everyone is profoundly touch deprived then yes, touch can easily equal trauma, or invoke traumatic memories, because it is unexpected and because it can be manipulative and because we are not connected to each other in such a world. In my mind this, the 18th meeting of this association, was evidence…
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Muscle Salon with Musclemonk
An invitation to gentle, guided online movement meditation based on the anatomy of the deep core.
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Perceptual shift as paradigm shift
Perceptual shift as paradigm shift In order to think about active inference at the level of the mortal substrate or good biomimesis, it helps if we can talk plainly. We can think of active inference as a cognitive function as something that perhaps Sherlock Holmes might be good at, but insight rather than deduction. Let’s…
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Biomechanical Enlightenment and Physical Homeostasis
Biomechanical Enlightenment and Physical Homeostasis Why is the motoric anatomy of the proprioceptive system so important? Physical homeostasis produces a corresponding neural metastability in the brain, beginning with cerebellar function, that shifts the oscillations of the brain to a much higher level of integration and coordination. We can call this biomechanical enlightenment. A transient form…
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If you are serious about our situation…
If you are serious about our situation, you must consider the need for and possibility of a perceptual paradigm shift. We have many ways to discuss this scientifically and rationally: hemispheric neglect syndrome, dysmetria of thought, dysconnection hypothesis, evolutionary mismatch, kinesthetic dystonia, postural collapse syndrome, exteroceptive bias… We are all seeing things a little off…
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Protected: the call of the flesh with Musclemonk
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Open Letter to a Marvelous Movement Philosopher
Dr. S-J, I am doing some deep historical and anatomical work into the muscle sense, I am a bodyworker, historian and theorist. I would love a chance to consult with you. Below is a recent presentation on perceptual bias and anatomy for your reference. I am currently working on the kinesiology of proprioception and would…
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Links for my talks at the Active Inference Symposium 2025
Below are links for my talks on Exteroceptive bias and our panel on Manual Therapy and Active Inference.Those of you that are into complexity theory and are interested in learning more about a viable new physics of life please check out my talk and this symposium. The symposium continues for two more days Jim’s talk…
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Active Inference and Manual Therapy
I will be participating at the Applied Active Inference Institute Symposium 2025 in a panel with a great international group of scholars and clinicians on the topic of what active inference means for clinical practice in the manual therapies. The event starts tomorrow and our panel will be tomorrow at 9:30 AM Pacific time (17:30…
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Save The World: a muscle meditation with Musclemonk
Please be prepared for a gentle self touch and meditation session as we think about the most important thing of all.
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Paradigm Shift in Mind and Body
Biomechanical Enlightenment: Paradigm Shift in Mind and Body with Musclemonk a presentation proposal outline for Grokkist
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How to face the Metacrisis
Embodying Musclemonk Day 178 Only me – Only Musclemonk knows what to do to face this Metacrisis: Biomechanical Enlightenment Learn how to save the world with muscle. Learn how to activate the body’s five major bony synapses. https://vimeo.com/1096829359 The bony synapses are complex sensory motor fields organized in arrays of bones, muscles, the powerful fascial…
Three Bones Theory 