The deep core body map is a theory of everything

The deep core body map is a theory of everything.

A theory is a kind of a lens or filter that allows us to see things from a different perspective. It helps us to focus on certain aspects that we can connect into something greater. A theory gives us insight but there is no law which requires that a theory provide only verbal, analytic and quantitive insight. It is not even necessary that a theory be intellectual. A theory can have behavioral or perceptual consequences.

In this sense we can say that a theory of everything is better if it is perceptual rather than intellectual in nature. If it can give us the perceptual skill of recognizing the interrelatedness of everything or even if it can only give us a pattern for the whole that is greater than the sum of its parts in our own bodies, it can have a profoundly positive and healing effect.

Whether the somatic anatomy that I describe is a perceptual filter for understanding everything I cannot say for sure. But it is clear that it is the expression in the human body of a phylogenetic and evolutionary structure that goes back to the very beginning of our embryonic development and back to the pre-Cambrian era 600 million years ago. The structure expressed in such complexity in the human axial line is nevertheless an expression the central and primary structure shared by countless species, including all vertebrates, in the chordate phylum.

This most profound structure is at the heart of a tremendous evolutionary swath of living organisms. We can anticipate that it would have significant representation in the brain, although perhaps on a deeper level than the somatotopes written on the surface of the cerebellum and motor cortex. Viscera is not represented in this way but it makes sense it might have a more three dimensional structure. In other words awareness of our axial line, which means we are aware of its self awareness, may therefore have a significant cognitive effect.

If we regard this structure that is at the very center of our own self in a way that is not reductionist and objectifying, what might we find?

This is the question which Three Bones Theory, the Deep Core Body Map, and my theory of Biomechanical Enlightenment seek to provide practical and interoceptive answers for.