Category: embodiment

  • Phase Shift: From Superficial To Deep

    Phase Shift, from Superficial to Deep All the polycrisis needs of us is the depth we already possess in abundance. The perspective shift is simple: from Exteroception to Interoception. We already possess all the sensory-motor apparatus we need. Phase Shift is possible. Civilization level phase shift is possible. All it takes is a shift from…

  • Compassion, Curiosity, and Respect

    Compassion, Curiosity, and Respect

    In the Deep Adaptation Forum compassion, curiosity and respect are important guiding values. What is the reason for this? Is it so that we can quietly and gently get rid of troublemakers we don’t agree with or is it to make sure that we don’t treat others the way that we have been treated? Those…

  • Touch is the quintessential sense.

    Touch is an inalienable and universal part of Truth. Truth is Emergent Truth is emergent and a large part of it is nonverbal. What we know as scientific truth is only one part of the story that we have to understand in order to understand life. Truth. The problem with scientific truth is that it…

  • Every Young Persons Primer

    Graphic Novel Proposal: Every Young Persons Primer on Presence, Posture, and Power: the Musclemonk Chronicles. Past A race of humanoids , the Musclemonk people, live on a forest planet. The original world of the Musclemonk people (from Avatar) These powerfully built humanoids coexisted with nature in a vital and advanced organic society. These humanoids have…

  • Inner Reflection is Non Judgemental— It is the key to conflict resolution and coordination

    Inner reflection is non-judgmental. This is because it is biomechanical. Our inner system of awareness is our postural system. It is essentially neutral and balancing. What about social conflict? It is important to remember for both sides of the argument alike that inner reflection is non-judgmental. Our neutral postural stance is our focus for the…

  • Possible or Impossible? Rapid consciousnesss change.

    Possible or Impossible? Rapid consciousnesss change. The emergence of Consilience as a cognitive faculty. Get serious. Talk to me. There was an Age of Enlightenment at the start of modernity. They felt it. Why can’t we? This is as momentous an historical era, but with a radically new form of cognition. The Age of Reason.…

  • Rapid Consciousness Change Through Interoception

    Rapid Consciousness Change Through Interoception Our Unexpected Interoceptive Sensory Motor Resources (Rapid as in realistically years rather than centuries.) One way that we think about the relationship of the brain and the body is in terms of our sensory motor system. We understand that there is both perception and action, that we must be able…

  • Biomechanical Cybernetics

    Would you be interested in discussing an embodied anatomy approach to Consilience? I teach about a functional form of biomechanical cybernetics. An Embodied Anatomy Approach to Consilience: Biomechanical Cybernetics. Would you like to discuss an anatomical approach to cybernetics or Synergetics? It relies on a new form of synergistic anatomy and one particularly important myofascial…

  • An Invitation: An Embodied Anatomy Approach to Consilience: Biomechanical Cybernetics.

    Dear participants of the Prosocial Embodiment Workshop that I led yesterday: If you attended I apologize for putting you through such a difficult experience. I taught a class yesterday that left me feeling deeply stumped. I am trying to teach about a revolutionary new fascial anatomy that we must feel to understand. I had made…

  • Iatrogenesis and Collapse: some thoughts about deep adaptation

    Iatrogenesis seems like a very important word to me. It means that the treatment caused the problem. If modern science has critically sickened the earth then why not also question how medicine affects our bodies and health? We all have a basic fear that by trying to help we might make things worse but let’s…