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Don Hanlon Johnson

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Body Practices and Consciousness: A Neglected Link

Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2000 Don Hanlon Johnson

The dominant notions of consciousness in the West are anchored in a peculiar matrix of dissociated sensibility held in place by unthematized body practices. It is misleading to evaluate spiritual and philosophical notions of consciousness simply from the point of view of verbal, logical analysis, when they are expressions of these deeply rooted experiential sensibilities, deliberately...