The Intelligence of Moving Bodies: A Somatic View of Life and its Consequences

by Carl Ginsburg

Scientific research is a valid way of learning about reality, but so is subjective experience. We must consider that we ARE embodied beings and that this fact is a challenge to the contention that objectivity even is possible. Yet, both objective and subjective research into reality and experience require a disciplined mode of investigation. The book explores how a person could apply a disciplined mode of investigation to personal experience. It explains how movement is a venue for examining personal experience that can help ‘sweep out the cobwebs of conceptualization that confuse our sensing, feeling, acting and thus our thinking.' The process of living is inconceivable without movement. Changing patterns of moving also changes patterns of conceptualization and cognition.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010