Thanks, Daniel. Beautifully composed and articulated. There seems to be a lot of convergence between your journey and mine. I was wondering if you have ever read the work of Robert Bosnak? His book 'Embodiment' was a really exciting find for me recently. Maybe you would enjoy it.
'The more cohesive the population of embodied states, the greater the self-organizing tendencies among them, and the lower the chance that embodied presences split off and settle in dissociated clusters. The ecosystem as a whole becomes highly adaptive.
At the `combinatorial optimization point'', the multiplicity of embodied states inhabiting a single body begins to act in an emergent pattern, behaving like a single flock, a self-sustaining web, qualitatively different from the sum of its parts.'
The book gives instructions for knitting these different dissociated embodied states together, using dream images as access points.
Interestingly, this article on embodiment is itself rather intellectual instead, as it avoids concrete examples of moving past an intellectual construct into embodied cognition.
Proably a whole other essay could be written on examples of this shift in your life.
I have noticed within myself, as a parent, the pattern of using work as an escape from the embodiment that naturally arises when spending time with my young kids. This embodiment makes me feel deeply. This is painful and therefore is met with aversion.
Similar to how you mentioned intellectual abstraction as a societal coping mechanism, it occurred to me that perhaps the main function of an occupation in this society is not to make money, or to contribute to society, or fulfil purpose, or any other given reason, but instead to avoid spending time with our children and families.
Our inner child revisits the developmental stage that our own children are experiencing, and it hurts like hell.
Thanks, Daniel. Beautifully composed and articulated. There seems to be a lot of convergence between your journey and mine. I was wondering if you have ever read the work of Robert Bosnak? His book 'Embodiment' was a really exciting find for me recently. Maybe you would enjoy it.
I hadn’t heard of that work before but I love what I’m seeing so far. Thanks for the recommendation. 🙏
Here is a quote from my notes:
'The more cohesive the population of embodied states, the greater the self-organizing tendencies among them, and the lower the chance that embodied presences split off and settle in dissociated clusters. The ecosystem as a whole becomes highly adaptive.
At the `combinatorial optimization point'', the multiplicity of embodied states inhabiting a single body begins to act in an emergent pattern, behaving like a single flock, a self-sustaining web, qualitatively different from the sum of its parts.'
The book gives instructions for knitting these different dissociated embodied states together, using dream images as access points.
Fantastic! Just got a copy.
Interestingly, this article on embodiment is itself rather intellectual instead, as it avoids concrete examples of moving past an intellectual construct into embodied cognition.
Proably a whole other essay could be written on examples of this shift in your life.
Indeed. Thus the eternal hypocrisy at the heart of wisdom propagation and the basis of Kyozans tree branch koan.
https://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/the-man-up-the-tree/
I have noticed within myself, as a parent, the pattern of using work as an escape from the embodiment that naturally arises when spending time with my young kids. This embodiment makes me feel deeply. This is painful and therefore is met with aversion.
Similar to how you mentioned intellectual abstraction as a societal coping mechanism, it occurred to me that perhaps the main function of an occupation in this society is not to make money, or to contribute to society, or fulfil purpose, or any other given reason, but instead to avoid spending time with our children and families.
Our inner child revisits the developmental stage that our own children are experiencing, and it hurts like hell.