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  • Change Begins From Within—A Radical New Argument

    Change begins from within. Not from without. Change that begins from within includes change from without. The opposite is not true. There is not one without the other. Both are necessary. It isn’t such a complex argument but there are a couple of steps to it. What I am trying to say is at least… Read more

  • What is Truth?

    What is Truth? Reply to a comment on my blog: https://nochairpledge.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/the-paradigm-shift-and-the-body-change-happens-from-within/comment-page-1/#comments Jeffrey, a lot of people say there is no truth and the best we can do is approximation. However I don’t think we’ve really given the truth a chance. I think that we engage in an awful lot of avoidance behaviors around the truth.… Read more

  • The Paradigm Shift and the Body: Meaningful Change Happens From Within

    The Paradigm Shift and the Body: Meaningful Change Happens From Within

    The Paradigm Shift and the Body: Meaningful Change Happens From Within. I am in a pretty unusual position. I am a healer, historian and a somatic social theorist with an anatomically specific focus on the role that the body plays in psychology, culture and history. I did my undergraduate work at Columbia and doctoral research… Read more

  • A Handful of Bones

    I teach a handful of bones along the axial line, part of the myofascial synergy called the deep core by Thomas Myers. It’s our postural center. The bones are central, prominent coordination centers facilitating interoception, stability and balance. They are shaped like grips and levers and are practically speaking bony servomechanisms for co-operating or conscious… Read more

  • The Paradigm Shift is Interoception.

    Simple as that. Read more

  • Meaning, Value and Moral Priority

    Meaning, value and moral priority come from within life itself. They don’t emerge from intellectual activity, no matter how impressive or authoritative it seems. The problem with our world is that it has been born from bad faith. Neither the invisible hand of the market nor the homeostatic properties of the natural world are going… Read more