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Our ecological crisis is at root, an imaginal crisis: A presentation on David Abram's ecological and philosophical vision. academia.edu/164611567/Ec...
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Already in the Penomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty had begun to work out a notion of human language as a profoundly carnal phenomenon, rooted in our sensorial experience of each other and of the world. In a famous chapter entitled "The Body as Expression, and Speech," he wrote at length of the gestures Genesis of language, the way that communicative meaning is first incarnate in the gestures by which the body spontaneously expresses feelings and responds to changes in its affective environment. The gesture is spontaneous and immediate. It is not an arbitrary sign that we mentally attach to a particular emotion or feeling; rather, the gesture is the bodying-forth of that emotion into the world, it IS that feeling of delight or of anguish in its tangible, visible aspect. When we encounter such a spontaneous gesture, we do not first see it as a blank behaviour, which we then mentally associate with a particular content or significance; rather, the bodily gesture speaks directly to our own body, and is thereby understood without any interior reflection.
Every once in a while you find something profoundly beautiful and connecting in a book. I love this paragraph.
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cover of 'Becoming Animal', by David Abram
I’m on a forum about David Abram’s spiritual, ecological, and philosophical vision on 4 Feb. My talk, 'Ecological Crisis as Imaginal Crisis', explores how our ecological emergency is at root, an imaginal one.
🔗 eicsp.org/events/event...
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I’m participating in a forum on David Abram’s spiritual, ecological, and philosophical vision - 4th Feb. My talk, 'Ecological Crisis as Imaginal Crisis', explores how our ecological emergency is an imaginal one.
🔗 eicsp.org/events/event...
#davidabram #ecological #imaginal #ecopsychology #philosophy
What is magic? In the deepest sense, #magic is an experience. It’s the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive.
- #DavidAbram
