PROPRIOCEPTION « Sixth Sense
by Maike Storks The term proprioception is composed of the Latin proprius (one’s own) and perception and thus literally designates one’s own perception. It is the sense of position and posture, movement and velocity of the body and body parts. This involves the location of our body or body parts in space, the relation of our body parts to one another, and the extent to, and pace at, which they change their position. Some accounts also attribute to proprioception a sense of effort through which weight can be evaluated and a sense of touch through which the size and shape of objects as well as the geometry of external space can be detected (Berthoz 2000:27-31, Hamilton 2005:273, McCloskey and Gandevia 1993:3, Paterson 2009:769-770, Smetacek and Mechsner 2004:21, Stock Kranowitz 2005:136). While there are specialized organs for exteroceptive senses such as sight and hearing, there is no exact correlation between receptors and organs for proprioception. History Relation to other Senses Notes
Needs Inventory
The following list of needs is neither exhaustive nor definitive. It is meant as a starting place to support anyone who wishes to engage in a process of deepening self-discovery and to facilitate greater understanding and connection between people. We have another list that might also be of interest to you: a list of feelings. The contents of this page can be downloaded and copied by anyone so long as they credit CNVC as follows: (c) 2005 by Center for Nonviolent Communication Website: www.cnvc.org Email: cnvc@cnvc.org
Feelings vs. Sensations
I know I’m not the only one who finds it curious that certain emotions have gotten a bad rap in our world, and can only be expressed under “socially acceptable” conditions. We can wax poetic about feelings of joy and elation pretty freely, but we’re not quite so comfortable on the whole with feelings like sadness and grief. Instead we have carefully crafted categories of acceptable anguish that we can move within when the conditions are right. Language has evolved, arbitrarily one might say, to give expression to our sensory experiences. I see _____ and so I need to have a common way of communicating that if I see a bird in the sky you will know exactly what I am pointing to. Language gives us a reference point, a way of attempting to understand the experience of another. “Drink this $7 latte and you’ll feel more invigorated!” “Try this $100 face cream and you’ll feel 10 years younger!" “Join this exclusive online community and you’ll never feel lonely again!”
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich (/ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/;[1] 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic"[2] of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development. Personal life[edit] He wrote a dissertation focusing on the historian Arnold J. Toynbee and would return to that subject in his later years. In 1951, he "signed up to become a parish priest in one of New York’s poorest neighborhoods—Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan, then a barrio of fresh-off-the-airplane Puerto Rican immigrants. In 1961, Illich founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación (fr) (CIDOC, or Intercultural Documentation Center) at Cuernavaca in Mexico, ostensibly a research center offering language courses to missionaries from North America and volunteers of the Alliance for Progress program[5] initiated by John F.
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Finnegans, Wake!
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Strange Loops - Aimless Wandering
Aimless Wandering Blog || Politics || Philosophy || Science || Fiction || Quotes Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguisticsby Hakim Bey The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. Does Taoism have a "metaphysics"? Certainly later Taoism, influenced by Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, developed elaborate cosmology, ontology, theology, teleology, and eschatology - but can these "medieval accretions" be read back into the classic texts, the Tao Te Ching, the Chuang Tzu, or the Lieh Tzu? Well, yes and no. But Chuang Tzu not only has no metaphysics, he actually condemns and derides metaphysics. The Chuang Tzu must surely be unique amongst all religious scripture for its remarkable ANTI-metaphysics. The universe comes into being spontaneously; as Kuo Hsiang points out, the search for a "lord" (or agens) of this creation is an exercise in infinite regress toward emptiness. But first let me define a few terms. Words are like wind and water.
