all my writing
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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
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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
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The Paradigm Shift is Interoception.
Simple as that. Read more
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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
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A Theory of Biomechanical Enlightenment: Metastability, the Interoceptive Sensorymotor System and Consilience
AI is a form of machine learning that requires an unsustainable and exponentially taxing amount of human and environmental resources. I argue that rather than a top down control type of technological approach to AI characteristic of modern science we look to the nature of the complexity of life itself and seek an organic and… Read more
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I am excited about this
I have recently found a new approach to the deep core that I am really loving. It is a form of bioenergetics taught by a chiropractor that focuses on meditative activation of the anchor sites of the axial line. She uses chakra sites but takes a very practical and physical approach to it. These anchor… Read more
