Somatic attunement
Part #3 in the multi-dimensional sensemaking series. Why the body's innate wisdom must be honored if we are to successfully navigate our lives.
It has taken centuries of indoctrination and social engineering to elevate the mind to a place of absolute authority in the sense-making conversation.
Prior to the “Western Enlightenment” and the subsequent rise of the scientific method and reductionist materialism, sense-making was an empirical process, and it involved learning from your elders, direct observation, trial & error.
Before understanding became a mental concept, it emerged from being in intimate dialogue with the world we inhabit, which made us embodied and relational.
Though with the advent of peer reviewed science, university professorships, scientific journals, and research grants, the conversation gradually became so narrow that we have come come to believe that a person can become an expert in a field by sitting in an office and thinking about it a lot.
From this gradual fragmentation and corruption of the sense-making conversation, growing parts of the population now considers spirituality as woo woo nonsense, intuition as unreliable, and the body as a brain taxi.
The ignorance of disembodied “experts”
When you enter the path of multi-dimensional sense-making, you quickly realize just how misguided this approach is.
The splitting of the mind from other sense-making pillars such as somatic attunement has resulted in our culture elevating reductionism and specialization as the ideal.
You can now become an “expert” in a branch of medicine like oncology (working with cancer), and know nothing about prayer, autophagy, and antioxidants.
The expert class has thus become populated with people who are incentivized to keep their focus as narrow as possible, which leads to active disinterest in holistic thinking and multi-disciplinary approaches.
Unsurprisingly, this increases the chance of mistakes, which is why medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA.
In other words, “specialist knowledge” in a system that devalues holism has become lethal.
Wisdom of the body
Our bodies carry remarkable wisdom in them.
They are organic “machines” (I don’t like that word, but it’s the best I can come up with) that are so perfect in their design that it boggles the mind.
They are vessels for soul and spirit, and their true bioelectromagnetic nature is completely suppressed by modern medicine.