the lived body is the key to intuitive knowledge

students can be shown techniques, but ultimately they must devise their own: the lived body is the key to intuitive knowledge … students must find within themselves the essential experiences around which their craft is formed … I offer processes which may reveal what is necessary, present maps and conceptual systems with the understanding that they are metaphors for the real thing. Even the scientific facts of anatomy and physiology are metaphorical in this sense.

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1. embodied state implies the embodied learner

   The embodied state implies the “embodied learner,” who, once aroused, is the Real thing: a human being in touch with essential, core responses. The