Stretching, Part I

Proprioception: The sense of self-movement and body position. It is sometimes described as the "sixth sense". - Wikipedia

There are certain truths about being a human being that people don't like to dwell on, in part because they naturally lead to thorny questions around the soul, consciousness, and other

//Line about yoga / psoas

Beginning, oh, five years ago I decided to start recording this experience, largely because this often led to more interesting intellectual tributaries wholly unrelated to

This vague sense of bullshit is exacerbated by the difficulties in describing sensation — any sensation. There is a reason orgasms have been compared to sneezes: few who've had experienced the former can properly do it justice without invoking voodoo concepts like "the goddess".

The placebo effect.

Consider: if the mind and body are one, and the system under conditions where thoughts were a valid input mechanism for crucial information — and those thoughts more closely resembled those of our ape relatives than our respectable officials — the placebo effect makes perfect sense. Maybe. Hope? We have ideas like hypochondriac where the suggestion is that you're making it up, but the symptoms are real.