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Forgetting the Body
And now, in its own way, we can see how technological society ignores the wisdom of the body. In modern life the body becomes a machine for living, the subject of managed care, of steroids and plastic surgery. Our flesh is mortified in new forms as we sit in traffic jams, work in cramped cubicles and at school desks under artificial light, and dist
... See moreJack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
When more and more of the “things” we take up during the course of our day are digitized or virtual realities, which leave few if any traces in the world?
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Keely Adler added
I wonder for how many of us the experience of the world is already so attenuated or impoverished that we might be tempted to believe that a virtual simulation could prove richer and more enticing? And how many of us already live as if this were in fact the case? How much of my time do I already devote to digitally mediated images and experiences? H... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
Alex Wittenberg added
Just as there's been a fear of the body and embodiment—something about being whatever else I am, if I'm a body, I'm subject to all the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, I am vulnerable, I am going to die.
Sophie Strand • Magic as Radical Embedding in Our Web of Relations
Vision Con - By L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society
theconvivialsociety.substack.comtheconvivialsociety.substack.comEros—carnal desire—is an embodied experience, and our phones do a terrific job of getting us out of our bodies and into our heads. In the digital age, we often neglect our bodies entirely, and use them merely as a way to transport our heads to meetings. (The rise of rave culture and physical fitness programs since the 1990s is perhaps evidence that... See more
Bradley McDevitt added
We are perhaps the most “living-above-the-shoulders-behind-the-eyes-and-between-the-ears” culture that has ever existed, and despite this we are directly lifting instructions that were meant for people whose sense of self was much more distributed in other parts of the body. For western audiences, investigating our thoughts tends to lead us to the ... See more
River Kenna • What is Somatic Meditation?
Stuart Evans added