Erin's response, Lavender

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Sorry for the brevity and rather scattered nature of the following, but my thoughts seem to be in many different places this week…

Lavender’s “Bodily Felt Sensing” describes felt sense, in one way, as “a physically felt relief” among other things. This, more than many other descriptions, speaks to me, as when I think of times I’ve experienced this sort of moment, I’ve felt relief – like a weight physically lifted from my shoulders. It was interesting to see Lavendar describe it this way.

“For Gendlin, human being is “interbeing”—what we think of as an individual being is a “livings in the world, and living with” (Gendlin, 1978-79). He calls this principle Interaction First. …[H]e sees our environments and us as a continuous co-creative process… [I]n his view, it is impossible to conceive of human being as a separate entity. We are interbeing.”

Lavender’s comments on Gendlin here make me think of Karen Barad’s concept of “intra-action” in her theory of agential realism. Seeing as how I’m still grappling with the ideas from reading her Meeting the Universe Halfway during a feminist theories course, I won’t go into detail lest I misrepresent her work. (Things with “quantum physics” in the subtitle tend not to be beach reads, I’ve found…) However, in a nutshell, Barad, like Gendlin, sees an interconnectedness of matter in the universe (perhaps in different ways, but interconnectedness nonetheless).

“For Gendlin, the making of meaning is a pluralistic, contextual, constructed process; it is changing and dynamic, not static and eternal (Mitchell, 1993). Our lived bodily sense of things is a function of our interbeing, and our capacity for felt sensing extends us beyond the confines of our delimited physical body.”

This makes me wonder about the connections between studies of transfer and felt sense?

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