into the body
Truth and knowledge lives in your body
Writing Feminist Life Together • Part 2 — Defense Mechanisms, Difficult Knowledge, & Heterosexual Relationships
But if at the heart of every world religion is a mystical tradition, at least one or many, then at the heart of the mystical traditions, one finds—always—the magical tradition, which is a particular form of mysticism. It's the mysticism of this world, of the body's world, the body's engagement with the Earth around it. It's a mysticism that has no
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As soon as I began to study my perception, to look at my own experience, I found that there were different ways of perceiving and that the different ways provided me with different facts. There was a narrow focus which meant seeing life as if from blinkers and with the centre of awareness in my head; and there was a wide focus which meant knowing
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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
The body is a resonator; attuning to the energies of the world, it knows them.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
JOSEPH CAMPBELL : Well, the ancient myths were designed to put the minds, the mental system, into accord with this body system, with this inheritance of the body.
BILL MOYERS : A harmony?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL : To harmonize. The mind can ramble off in strange ways, and want things that the body does not want. And the myths and rites were means to put
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How to generate heat within your body, from your belly, in times of excruciating and unending cold? Or how to douse for water in the depths of an ongoing drought? [These] very practical, bodied practices, not just bodied, but they're always about the body and its relation to the larger body of the world, or of the Earth.
Sophie Strand • Magic as Radical Embedding in Our Web of Relations
There are hundreds of thousands of kilometers of nerve fibers in a human body. How many can you wake up before we’re done?