somatics

Descartes formulated what became the foundation of the modern world: Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. But what happened to the body in that sentence? What happened to the heart, the breath, the pulse?

The body became something one had , not something one was . And language followed. It turned into a tool - but for what? We learned to separate professional words from private ones, rational words from emotional ones, legitimate words from the ones that felt too charged. In that split, something was lost: our ability to speak with our whole selves,

We are effectively closing our eyes to the body, but opening up all of our other senses to it. We refuse to see it, but we demand to feel it.

To me, that looks like a naive culture that thinks it can worship the body without accepting its humanity.

We can’t decide whether to worship the body or control it, and that’s probably because we are just starting to ask ourselves what it means to live in a body without being punished by it.

in that silence - where the words remain but contact is gone - something essential fades.