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BOW Recovering Our Sensuol Wisdom DON HANLONJOHNSON $ c;.1c1 BODY rouor$+f ord @sloJluePpJ'lJe3 0tg# isrBoloqr^sd Pere|sl8eu NVWG]IUJ 33I1V BODY Recovering Our Sersuol Wisdom DON ]{ANLON JOHNSON North Atlantic Books Berkeley, California Somatic Resources Berkeley, California Grateful acknowledgment is given to Pantheon Books for permission to reprint European head bindings from The Body Reader, edited by Ted Polhemus, and to the Rolf Institute for permission to reprint its logo; copyright @f979 Rolf Institute. The tortoise and scorpion postures are reprinted by permission of Schocken Books Inc. fuom Light on Yogaby B. K. S. Iyengar OGeorge Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd., 1966, 1968, 1976. Zazen is reprinted by permission of John Weatherhill from Koji Sato's 7[e Zen Life O1966, photo by Sato Kuzunishi. Grateful acknowledgment is given to Ira Friedlander for permission to reprint the photo of the dervishes. Virgin and Child courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. William Francis Warden Fund. The normal body in Western medicine is reprinted by permission of the Anatomical Chart Company. The nineteenth-century orthopedic devices, the Milwaukee brace, and the chiropractic ideal spine are reprinted by permission of the W. B. Saunders Company. The Alexander spine is from Tlze Alexander Technique, by Wilfred Barlow, copyright @1973 by Wilfred Barlow. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and by permission of Victor Gollancz Ltd from The Alexander Pinciple by Wilfred Barlow. The profile of the spinal column from Ida Rolf's ?ie Integrotion of Human Structures is reprinted by permission of John Lodge. The ideal computer operator is reprinted by permission of Henry Dreyfuss Associates and M.I.T. Press. Body: Recovering Our Sensual \ilisdom Copyright O 1983, l992by Don Hanlon Johnson ISBN 1-55643-144-9 All rights reserved Published by North Atlantic Books, 2800 Woolsey Street, Berkeley, California 94705 and Somatic Resources, P.O. Box 2067, Berkeley, California94TO2 Cover art: "The Physiolory of Digestion," a woodblock print by Kuniyoshi, 1850, courtesy of Roz Driscoll, The Battleboro Museum, and Gordon Mestler, The SUNY Health Center Cover desigrr by Paula Morrison Printed in the United States of America Body: Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit edu- cational corporation whose goals are to develop an educational and crosscultural perspective linking various scientific, social, and artis- tic fields; to nurture a holistic view of arts, sciences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the rela- tionship of mind, body, and nature. For my fathea a protestant CONTENTS 1. SHRINKING BEFORE AUTHORITIES I 2. A LOSS OF SENSE l5 3. MY BODY / MY POINT OF VIEW 42 4. THE SOCIAL BODY 65 5. IDEAL BODIES 85 6. DISEMBODYING THE ENEMY tt2 7, A WOMAN'S WAY 133 8. COMING TO OUR SENSES 152 9. CONSENSUS t75 IO. CONSENSUAL SPIRITUALITY 196 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2L1 NOTES 2t5 BIBLIOGRAPHY 223 INDEX 231
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