The revolution is our animal intelligence.

The revolution is simply the recovery of our animal intelligence. Those in the intellectual world are far away from it but they too can see its outlines and call it complexity theory or cybernetics or coordination dynamics— and they are not wrong.

Our animal intelligence is simply our inner self, our deep core postural sensory motor system, which works automatically and instinctively and subconsciously whether we know about it or not. It is self directed and self balancing. It is self-aware.

It is always functioning within us as our stabilizing postural core or it would not be possible for us to move our bodies. If you would like evidence that it exists then I will tell you that it is self evident. You can feel it within your self as easily as your tongue on the roof of your mouth. This is one end of the system and the other is in your big toe.

Every culture has been aware of the system and there are many technologies to communicate with it like yoga or tai chi and Feldenkrais. However we need to know it anatomically in order to be fully cognitively aware of metastability in the system.

The anatomy is not complicated at all and basically involves just a handful of major bones that are easy to see touch feel and move. A fully functional understanding is inevitable if we simply have knowledge of the bones of the system. This is because it is the system itself that knows how it functions and it will communicate that to you very naturally. However it will help to save a great deal of time and trouble the learn more about the anatomy and biomechanics because the bony system not simply missing from our awareness but is also often actually distorted, atrophied, uncoordinated, and even shamed. A little bit of conscious instruction in their function as biopsychosocial pattern generators can save a great deal of time in the process of coming to basic self-awareness.

This is what I attempt to teach on my blog and in my online and in person muscle salons.

I believe that it is hopeful to approach this kind of profound and vulnerable self-awareness intentionally while also including our erotic self identity. This is an important source of energy and an important part of our animal intelligence because our erotic sensory organs are located as part of this axial system that runs along the central line of our body. It makes sense our animal and intelligence would be the source of spiritual fire, sexual energy, orgasm and creativity all at the same time. If our animal intelligence is also the source of our groundedness, balance, and stability all the better.

This is a form of Consilience that occurs in the experience of the body. The development of this capacity for pattern recognition is the revolution. Consilience is a function of sel aware metastability in this specific body part and this related handful of bones. These are sensitive bony servomechanisms that we can use almost mechanistically to intentionally activate this profoundly self directed systrm. It is not a system that we operate as much as we co-operate.