Gallery: Incandescent flights of association
Humans emit light
Human bodies emit light but it is 1000x less intense than can be seen our naked eyes. To observe human bioluminescence at a light frequency that humans are sensitive to requires magnification. It is less known that almost all living creatures emit ultraweak photon emission, which is thought to be a byproduct of free radicals caused by biochemical reactions. The time of day when our body is burning the most energy is the late afternoon, when we glow the brightest *.
Lived embodiment lost to machines
The human evolutionary trajectory towards a collective enfeeblement in consciously occupying our lived embodiment may contribute to understanding how it is that we inflict harm towards ourselves and other living beings on our beautiful planet. There are myriad conditions that have led to the evolution of disembodiment. One pivotal shift occurred throughout the Industrial Revolution when the creation of material goods became transferred from embodied human hands to the empty staccato enacted during mass production by disembodied factory machines.
Defenses interfere with our senses
Human have developed an embodied accumulation of unprocessed developmental and intergenerational dysregulation and trauma. The emotional defenses we use interfere with our senses which result in blocks to receiving and interpreting embodied perceptual data. Alexithymia is a diminished ability to interpret and understand our interiority. This emotional blindness enables us to mistakenly read the distorted duplicative reenactments of the past as present lived experience. To heal this, humans need to reawaken our embodied cognition. Interoceptive attunement and presence allows us to consciously register the impact that our individual choices have upon the collective matrix of experience.
Systems of Thought
Comprehending and translating the signals communicated through embodied interoceptivity is vitally important to reawaken to the conscious moral responsibility necessary to co-exist mutually with the earth and all her inhabitants.
The wisdom espoused within the systems of thought developed by Deep Ecology, Engaged Buddhism, Whitehead’s Process Relational Ontology and Complexity/Systems Theory provide a compass to direct us to develop the next frontiers to explore. Human can inhabit themselves more consciously to experience the vast palette of bodily awareness available within to deeply listen to the language of our own perspectival embodiment which leads to developing embodied cognition.
Waves of Concrescence
In the spirit of applying Process Thought, a place of elongated contemplation fawns over the sentence in Whitehead’s Modes of Thought “it has its origin in the thought of ourselves as process, immersed in process beyond ourselves”. The waves of concrescence require our subjective embodiment to translate the process of selection and defining importance. When I observe experiences of prehension (Whitehead’s term for currents of unconscious feelings) in my own meta-cognitive awareness I attempt to notice and trace a map of the directionality of my thoughts. Could I observe the toggling filament of discernment involved in the selection process?
Interiority ~ Exteriority
Why have humans evolved to detach from their interoceptive awareness and what are the myriad implications of disembodiment for the planet and on all the sentient beings who live here? Do other mammals dissociate and detach from their interoceptive experience like humans do? What will it take to reverse the direction and move again towards a balance of interiority and exteriority in a dialectical conversation and behavior.
Interiority
In my somatic psychotherapy practice I guide my clients how to create a cartography of their lived experience to enhance their own unique interiority. My practice applies embodiment techniques to sense inside and develop the capacity to accurately interpret emotions and feelings. Interoceptive accuracy is associated with improved self-regulation and overall well-being.
Metacognition: Atmospheric Qualities of Mind
Another important internal dimension of interoception is one’s ability to distinguish the atmospheric qualities of one’s own mind and discern our patterns of thought as described by metacognition. This skill adds matrical dimension for consciously understanding the heuristic process of ontogenetic development. Our own perspectival theory of mind about other beings develops from these simulations and predictions.
Cartography of Synchronization
In my attempt to apply Process Relational Philosophy into my own heuristic ontology of experience, I am placing an emphasis on the experiential shoreline of what happens when we creatively interact and engage in the transformative collective co-experiences of awe, joy, beauty, and other meditative and conscious states. Is it possible to generate resonance in our perspective when this cartography of experience is explored through the lens of the phenomenology of Coordinated Brain Wave Resonance and Affective Synchronization?
Heart-centered cartography
When our sensory and cognitive perceptions are distorted and narrowed in felt scope by the infusion states of fear our ability to skillfully interpret reality is reduced to duplicative reenactments of the past. How can we create a heart-centered cartography that references the wisdom of beginner’s mind and the alchemical embodiment of graceful humility.
Biosemiotics
Biosemiotics is the study of signs and codes in the contextual interactions expressed in the pluriverse. Biosemiotics considers the unique perspectival inquiry related to how different living systems perceive and map the world. What is the cartography of the arborizational experience that is modeled by the cicada brood listening for the next time they will surface above ground or the flush of an insect kissing flowers?
Nocibo Effect
The nocibo effect studies how our brains create and compose negative, fearful expectations based on our personal past experience. These simulations orchestrate how these negative predictions, once ingrained, actually create the feared negative outcome. The nocibo effect, like the placebo effect, is so powerful it has been observed that it can even change our bodies physiologically.
The Elusive Companionship of Truth
There is a pervasive elusiveness to locating and occupying the abiding companionship of truth. Truth is a mosaic composite of all experience. Each experient in the composite holds their unique perspectival truth. The experient maps their perspectival position and adds this to the matrical collective affective synchrony resonant throughout the pluriverse.
Ephaptic Coupling
Ephaptic coupling is a strong form of rapid communication within the nervous system. This neural form of communication is non-synaptic and it relies on the direct influence of electric fields which are able to influence the electrical excitability of neighboring neurons near instantaneously. Source for ephaptic coupling: Christopher Chen.
Generating Creativity
Alpha waves are linked to the generation of new ideas. Creativity happens during mind wandering. When you focus intently on a task you make it more difficult. Letting your mind wander frees up attentional resources and frees up the structured way of thinking that limits creative inputs. Source for alpha waves: Julia Kam, cognitive neuroscientist.