In preparing for the body-mind workshop (see posting below) I turn to Ken Wilber, one of the most widely-read and influential American philosopher of our time:
“There are, as one would expect, all sorts of reasons why we abandon our bodies, and why we now fear to reclaim them. … On a superficial level, we refuse to reclaim the body because we just don’t think there’s any reason to–it seems a big to-do about nothing. On a deeper level, we fear to reclaim the body because it houses, in a particularly vivid and living form, strong emotions and feelings which are socially taboo. And ultimately, the body is avoided because it is the abode of death.”
In “I sing the body electric,” Walt Whitman (1819-1893) concludes his ode to the human body with these lines: “O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul, / O I say now these are the soul!”
source: Wilber, K. (2001). No boundary: eastern and western approaches to personal growth. Boston: Shambala, pp. 526-528.
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Categories: conscious living, psycho-spiritual development . Tags: death, Ken Wilber, reclaiming body, Walt Whitman . Author: monkeymind
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