
Forgotten bodies in a headspace world

This misuse of one of the most precious aspects of being alive is ubiquitous. Our children are growing into a severely fragmented world, our bodies are showing the illnesses of disconnection, and our communities are divided. Politics and technology are merging into an alarming communication horror story with AI to categorize us all into our algorit... See more
Alexander Beiner • The Bigger Picture
The place we generally start is with the body. Do you trust it? Are you aware of its signals? Do you know how to take your phenomenology seriously and move your finger? Ironically, putting our minds before our bodies pushes us to a default where our mental pre conceptions pre empt our direct experience. We ignore the reality before us, because it c... See more
Sadalsuud • It's Called "Woo" Because It's Fun
suggests that the self and its relation to the world is not merely a mental phenomenon. It has a sensual, embodied, and material dimension, and changes, even subtle ones, to the texture our experience can have profound consequences.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
I know that disembodiment is a real and pervasive mental issue afflicting cerebral people. The phrase “stuck in your head” isn’t metaphorical, it refers to the arbitrary sense that your perceptual home base is a golfball-sized hole in the middle of your head. I used to have it, and it is a massive downgrade versus correctly perceiving your awarenes... See more
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know

We aren’t just trying to find meaning and clarity in physical space, but within a digital forest overlaid onto almost every aspect of our lives.
Alexander Beiner • The Sensemaking Companion - Section I
Our around-the-clock overexposure to global human suffering, our daily feed of what we once considered catastrophic events — political, ecological, cultural — when combined with diminished attention spans, smaller and smaller chunks of content, and baked-in cross-platform imperatives to remain emotionally removed from any given person, place, or ev... See more
Heather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
