The Ezekiel Code: A Vision of Living Bones (Feldenkrais inspired) PDF
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David Kaetz THE EZEKIEL CODE A Vision of Living Bones The Ezekiel Code A Vision of Living Bones ". ' 2J And he said to me, my dear human, what do you think, can these bones come to life again? -Ezekie.l 37:3 -2- The Ezekiel Code A Vision of Living Bones David Kaetz River Centre Publishing Hornby Island, Canada -3 - Copyright© 2014 by David Kaetz All rights reserved. ISBN 978-0-9784014-4-3 Printed in Canada. Fourth printing . November , 2016. For information and orders: www.davidkaetz.com davka@pobox .com 11/16/IV -4 - Dedicated with great gratitude to the memory of a brilliant teacher of both-and, Rabbi Zalman Schachter -Shalomi 7"'1' My thanks , as well, to the following people for their contributions to this project, by way of moral support, research tips, many questions, and simple kindness: Ruthy Alon Donna Blank Mischul Brownstone Rob Cohen Russell Delman Lucas Derks Elisabeth Haas William Hallo J"t Amos Hetz Bob Hunter Susan Kaetz J"t Arnie Lade June La Pointe Jim Lemkin Myriam Pfeffer J"t Peter Schein Elinor Silverstein Jill Swartz David Webber Alicia Rusch Gershon Winkler -5 - -6 - "We cannot become conscious of a feeling before it is expressed by a motor mobilization. Therefore there is no feeling so long as there is no body attitude ." - Moshe Feldenkrais, "Minda nd Body," in Elisabeth Beringer (e d.) EmbodiedW isdom:T he CollectedP apero f MosheF eldenkrai(sB erkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2010). "We will do (it) and (then) we will 'get it."' -Exodus 24:7, often cited by Dr. Feldenkrais. (Tr., D.K.) "Through not observing what is in the mind of another, a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy ." -The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, tr. by George Long, Bk. II lch war zerstreut; an Widersacher In Stlicken war verteilt mein lch .... Jetzt bin ich wieder aufgebaut aus allen Stucken meiner Schande und sehne mich nach einem Bande, nach einem einigen Verstande, der mich wie ein Ding uberschaut, nach deines Herzens groEen Handen (o kamen sie <loch auf mich zu) .... (Skeletal summary: I was scattered in pieces;n ow I a,n rebuilt from all the fragments of my disgrace. .. ) -Excerpted from Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours -7 - -8 - Foreword We are emerging, gratefully, from a strange time, where it has been the custom to separate science from spirituality, art from health, play from learning, and the inner life from the outer. These divisions, studiously cultivated over the centuries, have left us with a fragmented view of reality, not to mention a broken world. If The Ezekiel Code walks simultaneously in several realms, blissfully ignoring the boundaries of academic disciplines and professional territories, no offence is meant. Rather, my intention, in unpacking an ancient vision of reintegration, is to make a contribution to the reintegration of vision. In particular, for many years I have been looking for a bridge between Jung's work on the inner life and Feldenkrais's work on the organization of movement. This bridge has gradually come into view through the study of images and motifs which express themselves in both psyche and soma.* If my previous book, Making Connectionsw, hich was addressed to my colleaguesi n the Feldenkraisp rofession, was a solarb ook, this one gives the moon her due. On the moon's team: creative imagina tion, synchronicity, ancient murals, and good clean Biblicalf un. Caveatl ector I: I am a practitioner of the Feldenkrais®M ethod of somatic education,** with a degree in Religious Studies and Near Eastern Languages. The dance of these elements is in the writing. The exegesis which follows is far from orthodox; you will not find a kinaesthetic reading of Ezekiel among the traditional commentators, Jewish or Christian.*** -9 -
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