What to do when the world goes crazy

My working postulate is that the world is crazy. It is important to start from this vantage point theoretically and existentially. As Gregory Bateson has observed, you are going to be crazy if you live in a crazy world, that is if you try to be sane.

In my famly and in society there is a great deal of delusion, hostility, and apathy and very little recognition of the truth. There is little genuine connection. This can be thought of as cultural mismatch and it is profound.

It gives me a tremendous amount of anguish and unease and makes it hard to function because there appear to be few good options in this world. Our culture has grown around us like a mold or a fungus that is out of check.

We can no longer see clearly. The intellect has become unnaturally loud and is suffocating our awareness of the implicit, existential truth that exists within the earth and our bodies.

In this situation the Buddhist value of mindlessness or the cessation of thinking is a valuable product of an embodiment practice. We can instead use our intellect in order to focus our attention on the deep postural sensory motor system that is within us. It is our deep core.

This system is intrinsically balancing, stabilizing, centering, and calming. It is a form of animal intelligence and possesses a great deal of wisdom. This is the wisdom of the body which includes the brain and perhaps especially the right hemisphere of the brain. This wisdom is nonverbal or preverbal. The intellect must listen to it carefully and with humility. This natural part of the practice is a good corrective for balancing and integrating brain health.

If the practice and the knowledge is nonverbal then it must also be natural, intuitive, instinctual, and easy. There is no reason why the truth would not be all those things and there is no good reason why the answer also would not also be natural and easy.

The source of this embodied enlightenment is free and exists within each one of us equally as our core software and hardware. It is a sensory motor system.

The core postural system has always been and always will be active with us. We choose whether to run, jump or throw a ball. But we do not have to consciously choose stability and balance. It is automatic. It is part of the central functioning of the postural system, and is like our very own inner animal intelligence.

The only thing that has changed recently is that because of the fascia revolution in anatomy we now have a name for this system and a way to pay conscious attention to it. We do this through the simple anatomy of the axial line of the body, the myofascial synergy of the deep core, and just four major, central bones. Fascia is like a sensitive inner skin; it is the organ of interoception.

This in my humble opinion is the beginning of the cure for the meta crisis and it is one that each one of us can find within ourselves. The simple bony anatomy of the sensory stations of the deep core of the body is the key to our animal intelligence. It is our interoceptive sensory motor system. It is the key to restoring integration and balance within and between ourselves and the earth.

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