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Tag Archives: Gendlin
Focusing in Nature
Put simply, Focusing is a means of opening our awareness to the “bodily sensed knowledge” which Eugene Gendlin calls the “felt sense” (Gendlin, 1981). The term ‘felt sense’ describes those fuzzy feelings that we don’t usually pay much attention to … Continue reading
Imbolc: The Pulse of the Seasons
February 2nd is the Pagan festival of Imbolc, and to celebrate I went for a long walk in the countryside. Imbolc is the time of ’the quickening of the year’ when the first signs of the coming Spring appear, & … Continue reading
Eugene Gendlin
Writing a PhD thesis on embodied knowing was a tricky task and at times I doubted that I could research something so nebulous. My big breakthrough came when I read the work of contemporary philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin. Gendlin … Continue reading
Posted in Key ideas
Tagged Abram, Clark, connection, embodied situated cognition, Gendlin, philosophy, psychology
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The threshold brook
My Ph.D. research into embodied knowing found that Eco-Pagans living in urban environments often had a powerful spiritual connection to a specific place. Barry Patterson, one of my research participants, described this connection as listening to the “threshold brook” (Harris, … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and spirituality
Tagged connection, Gendlin, nature, Pagan, Patterson, place, spirituality
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