Body as Verb - Paperback
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In the third book of the Autonomics Trilogy, ancestral neuroscience pioneer Natureza Gabriel explores the beauty and mystery of the vertebrate movement system. Mis-named by traditional neurology as the Sympathetic Nervous System, and associated by most people who know anything about it with fight-flight responses, this spinally-mediated neurology is the animating genius of the vertebrate body plan.
By locating the neurological control nodes of complex patterned movement in proximity to the limbs and organs that they subtend, the vertebrate movement system distributes hardwired and adaptive survival programs across well over fifty brains in the body.
In this volume, Gabriel argues that existing in a vertebrate body is such a fundamental substrate of our lived experience that we cannot understand what it means to be wearing a human body outside of this construct. He explores the autonomic intelligence of this embodied system, and what it means to learn to trust the billions of years of evolutionary history hard-wired into each of our living breathing bodies. By regarding the body as a verb (energy in motion) rather than a noun (a thing), Gabriel provides language and texture for knowing the third autonomic facet of our dynamic lived experience.
Blending science and poetry, neurophysiology and sociological commentary, philosophy and polemic, the book is the extraordinary conclusion to the three part exposition of autonomic systems begun by The Neurobiology of Connection, continued in GROUND, and concluded here. A tour-de-force that you will not want to miss, Body as Verb completes the explorations of the autonomic trilogy by naming a third mode of knowing ourselves: through movement. This is, in the author’s words, a book of joy.
Paperback book
• 220 pages
• 30 full color illustrations
• Paperback 5.5 x 8.5 inches
PRAISE FOR THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF CONNECTION & GROUND
“Truly a masterwork, this is a rare combination of scientific insight, spiritual wisdom, and practical tools for daily life. Beautifully written, it’s warm and inviting, like a clear path through green forest groves. Poetic, personal, comprehensive, and endlessly useful, in these pages you’re in the company of a brilliant and warm-hearted guide to lasting well-being, love, and inner peace.”
–Rick Hanson, PhD
author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
“A marvelous text, full of brilliant transdisciplinary insights!”
–Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Professor Emerita of Psychology,
Developer of the Evolved Nest
“GROUND is a seismic event that cracks open our human experience in multiple directions to let the light in where it is most needed. It is actually three books intricately interwoven as one. It is a story of personal excavation, fuelled by a deeply informed inquiry that cannot but illuminate the pathways of the reader’s own inquiry; it is a clinical diagnosis of an illness inherent to modernity, and of the ways in which its touch blights our lives and the lives around us; and it is a treatise of sober encouragement that helps point the way forward for us all. Gifting us with a holistic understanding of both our personal and cultural concerns, Ground couldn’t be more relevant for our times. Read it and be nourished!”
–Philip Shepherd
Creator of The Embodied Present Process, best-selling author of Radical Wholeness, New Self, New World, and Deep Fitness
| Weight | .8 kg |
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