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This blog will explore the nature of human experience and the mechanisms we use to create and maintain the collective illusion we call reality, as I understand them. The main content is a series of posts best read from the beginning as a manuscript, rather than as a blog starting with the most recent entry. I’ve set up navigation links that allow you to read either way.
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The paradigm presented here is one has evolved for me over the past 40 years. It began when I was a mathematician at the Rand Corporation, with my interest in how governments and government organizations constructed and acted on their perceptions of the world. My experience with the internal martial arts of T’ai Chi and Akido helped me see parallels with our individual perceptions of and interactions with the world around us, and my explorations of meditative practice, Chinese philosophy and such writers as Carlos Castaneda deepened my understanding of those parallels.
A personal practice I call refocusing, which grew out of my martial arts experience, provided the catalyst for a major shift in my worldview toward the paradigm presented here. I first wrote about that paradigm in The Reality Illusion, a quarter century ago. My study with Moshe Feldenkrais gave me new insights and tools to deepen that understanding, which has further evolved though my experience as a Feldenkrais teacher. I’m now semi-retired, and it’s time for me to better organize what I’ve learned and put more of it into written form.
The paradigm presented here is not the way the Feldenkrais Method is normally taught, but I believe it does provide a good theoretical explanation of how the Method works and accomplishes what it does.
