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Reply if you’d be interested in a book club on Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception hosted by me. https://t.co/1NNQ8YAzTG
reading Merleau-Ponty allowed me to begin perceiving my own habit-body just because i, my consciousness, was happy, didn’t mean by body was whether or not my body felt loved was a lived set of habitual responses; it was something else entirely from my cognitive layer
We were off this week, but had an unofficial call “off the books.” Random quotes “i think kanye west has a thing about that” “from his wyoming album” Someone asked: “why did you land on this book?” https://t.co/x37ROVCPZU
the reasons these books worked, where something like IFS, or this or that on meditation didn’t, is because they were specifically helpful for someone highly neurotic like me - merleau-ponty through revealing the body - tantra through accepting the electricity
Interesting connection for those of you who’ve heard of Eugene Gendlin or Focusing: Gendlin was initially a philosophy major. part of the reason he came to develop focusing was reading Merleau-Ponty and company. If you haven’t heard of Gendlin: https://t.co/AK5AhBrNS0
Second “official” call yesterday. We talked about: - the temptation to name, only never to see the thing again - connections to McGilchrist and the two hemispheres - what does it mean to “compress” a story, and tell it to another person? its *inserting* it into their context https://t.co/Zn9lfbL1hf
- why *doubting* if you are doing phenomenology is so corrupting.. it implicitly invokes the frames of certainty & uncertainty, not reliability - from certainty → reliability. a new language from the body - descartes’ daddy issues https://t.co/i8VCztI86g https://t.co/V038j63dcX
