POINT-OF-VIEW
CALL it a paradigm shift, a wisdom transformation or weltanschauung crisis, I was thinking this morning that our species has evolutionarily experienced several major shifts in point-of-view, one of the more interesting for me being the shift from a “horizontal” to a “vertical” viewpoint.
We are, after all, descended from the oceans, with it’s particular, salty, “horizontal-axis” orientation, experiencing a major shift to airy, “vertical” bipedal orientation when our ancestors immigrated onto land. The “marks” of our salt-water vertical past, however, steadfastly remain.
First, we still spend half of our lives in horizontal sleep. Second, we still procreate horizontally, though there are those occasional vertical flings. Third, we have salty tears. Fourth, we struggle throughout life maintaining our inner saline milieu. Fifth, we seem to have acquired a cranial adjustment that makes keeping our axis and head vertical, looking forward, verses sea creatures and quadrupeds that typically keep their head hyperextended in order to look forward.
Given all this and more, Stanford Neurobiologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky aptly calls us an incredibly confused species. Yep. Can’t fault that. Who, human, animal or plant on this Earth doesn’t feel confused most of the time. But I suspect the change from a predominantly horizontal to vertical point-of-view is incredibly important in understanding our nature. As Somatic Therapist Setsuko Tsuchiya stated in her book, IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY (Savant 2017) — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997247231, it’s often a change in somatic elements that precede a change in our psyche, a distinctly Reichean point-of-view, rather the more popular reverse Freudian point-of-view. Go figure.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997247231
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We are, after all, descended from the oceans, with it’s particular, salty, “horizontal-axis” orientation, experiencing a major shift to airy, “vertical” bipedal orientation when our ancestors immigrated onto land. The “marks” of our salt-water vertical past, however, steadfastly remain.
First, we still spend half of our lives in horizontal sleep. Second, we still procreate horizontally, though there are those occasional vertical flings. Third, we have salty tears. Fourth, we struggle throughout life maintaining our inner saline milieu. Fifth, we seem to have acquired a cranial adjustment that makes keeping our axis and head vertical, looking forward, verses sea creatures and quadrupeds that typically keep their head hyperextended in order to look forward.
Given all this and more, Stanford Neurobiologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky aptly calls us an incredibly confused species. Yep. Can’t fault that. Who, human, animal or plant on this Earth doesn’t feel confused most of the time. But I suspect the change from a predominantly horizontal to vertical point-of-view is incredibly important in understanding our nature. As Somatic Therapist Setsuko Tsuchiya stated in her book, IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY (Savant 2017) — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997247231, it’s often a change in somatic elements that precede a change in our psyche, a distinctly Reichean point-of-view, rather the more popular reverse Freudian point-of-view. Go figure.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997247231
#DanielSJanik #Janik #SetsukoTsuchiya #Tsuchiya #RaymondGaynor #Gaynor #GaryMartine #Martine #author #actor #philosopher #PointOfView #paradigm #wisdom #weltanschauung #horizontal #vertical #axis #shift #bipedal #legs #water #ocean #saltine #SaltWater #FreshWater #tear #sleep #sex #quadruped #Sapolsky #InSearchOfSomaticTherapy #SomaticTherapy #somatic #WilhelmReich #Reich #Freud
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