into the body
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
We are not the isolated, conscious minds often assumed in our folk psychology. Rather, we are fundamentally embodied. Any spirituality that ignores how the body influences what we think and do will not be usefully transformative.
Dr Jonathan Rowson • The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand
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 w
... See moreMaria Popova • A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want
You see, this thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it’s running the shop. It’s a secondary organ; it’s a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and serve the humanity of the body.
BillMoyers.com • Ep. 1: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘The Hero’s Adventure’
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 t
... See moreBillMoyers.com • Ep. 3: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘The First Storytellers’
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
... See moreSophie Strand • Magic as Radical Embedding in Our Web of Relations
Feelings let the mind know, automatically, without any questions being asked, that mind and body are together, each belonging to the other.
Maria Popova • I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on Consciousness and How the Feeling-Tone of the Body Underscores the Symphony of the Mind
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.