Category: embodiment
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The substrate is the flesh.
Proposal: a testable haptic theory of the functional anatomy of the human sensory motor Markov blanket, focusing on proprioception. This is major advance in active inference theory. The integrative kinesiological functions of the proprioceptive sensory motor system are the basis of biomechanical active inference. The postural system of the body can be specified accurately biomechanically…
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A Whole New Body Part: The Deep Core.
A Whole New Body Part: The Deep Core. Embodying Musclemonk Day 8 I teach about a whole new body part: the Deep Core. That’s got to be pretty important. It’s a big deal. A game changer. Because it brings with it a new form of cognition. I meditate upon it in these videos. Find out…
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Embodying Musclemonk Day 7, 1-7-2025
The discovery of a radical new body part and with it a radical new form of cognition. This is how to meet the metacrisis head on. Stage Fright I am finding that one of the most difficult things about embodying Musclemonk in addition to imposter syndrome is stage fright. I am looking for an improv…
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The anatomy of the universal patterns of the subconscious.
The anatomy of the universe patterns of our subconscious –The subconscious patterns of our animal intelligence are reducible to a handful of highly metaphorical adaptive micromovements.— In chapter 3 of June Singer’s biography of Carl Jung, The Boundaries Of The Soul, she talks about how Jung, working with others, figured out that the unconscious was…
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The Solution Is Within Each Of Us
The Solution Is Within Each Of Us We are living in a time of crisis. We are dangerously disconnected from the Earth resulting in serious ecological catastrophe. We are also alarmingly disconnected from each other resulting in tremendous polarization, hostility and weaponization. We are also very seriously disconnected from our own bodies, resulting in chronic…
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Self aware, self directed, self healing, and self evident.
Self aware, self directed, self healing, and self evident. While it is visibly obvious, the fact that these bones act as the coordinative center for the junctures and sensory stations they are at the center of is self evident because you possess them physically. That these bony servomechanisms coordinate the major junctures on the axial…
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The problem isn’t them. It’s us
The problem isn’t them. It’s us. The solution isn’t them. It’s also us. It is easy to mistake destruction for construction. In fact there are even a wide range of diseases that we mistake for healthy. These are mismatch or “lifestyle” diseases. It is even possible to wear the body backwards—rather than in a balanced…
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Rules For Life
Rules for Life Here is one: No matter what the situation or what I am thinking or doing or what the environment is or what is happening, whenever I need to I can always at least access one of the parts of my core, in some way and even very very lightly, and then all…
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Anatomy First in the somatic revolution.
Anatomy First in the Somatic Revolution. Everyone is focused on the brain. However I am deeply certain it is not the brain that does the heavy lifting but the body (and its environment) that does the real work, or at least the really interesting work. Perhaps the brain is more like a servomechanism that is…
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The somatic spectrum starts in your body.
There is something magical inside of me. Can you feel it? Don’t live in your head only— come deep within with me, Musclemonk, into the visceral anatomy of the deep core, our breakthrough animal intelligence. Our inner awareness is the last great frontier and the best refuge for our collective instinct for survival. Sexual energy…
