Allow me to abduct you to a world of benevolent gods, untamed horses and... free-wheeling shopping carts.
Wait, what now?
Yeah, strange are the worlds we are privileged to inhabit.
This episode of the Richness of Being podcast invites you, quite fittingly, into an embodied exploration of the nature of being.
We'll dive into philosophical concepts that may help us deepen our understanding of how we make sense of the world and explore how/where they live in our bodies.
We mention:
- Ontology
- Ontological pluralism (Paul Feyerabend)
- Onto-fugitivity (Bayo Akomolafe).
This episode may help you:
- feel into where/how your inherited ontology resides in your body (you may be surprised that it lives there at all)
- discover your body's orientation when it comes to entering other ways of being, as well as a world of awe and wonder (you may be less open than you think)
- begin/deepen your journey into embodied selfhood, a highly insecure and vulnerable path that may not offer any rewards in the conventional sense (but may stir deeper questions of soul)
Please note: resistance to leaning into embodiment, feeling, lingering and slowing down is normal. This may be a sign that your modern mind is trying to keep you away from “trouble”.
After listening, let me know: What came up for you when exploring the scenarios mentioned in the episode?
Resources:
- Virtual Home Ulrike Kanton: take a look around to see what I do and how I hold space, connect if you'd like to find out more or work together
- Embodied aliveness practice: a way to ground yourself, and maybe open to receive other way of seeing the world.
- A Pluralism Worth Having: Feyerabend's Well-Ordered Science: paper on Feyerabend's understanding of pluralism, long read.
- Virtual Home Bayo Akomolafe: find essays and reflections. His ideas may not be easy to enter, grant yourself spaciousness.
- Paper: Onto-fugitivity: Grounding Sanctuary in the Cracks : paper on the concept of onto-fugitivity. Again, this might be hard to understand from a purely "rational" approach, take this in embodied ways, breathe, sway, dance with it.
