Current Research
In recent years, important developments in the field of neurophysiology have led to major discoveries regarding the sensory and motor nervous systems. Computer techniques for averaging brain wave response patterns have made possible new uses for electroencephalographic recordings in studies of sensory perceptual functioning. A number of recent studies have indicated systematic relationships between electrophysiological, […]
The Dura Mater
The Dura Mater is the most general tissue of the body for it controls the blood supply to the brain from the body and is directly or indirectly in contact with all the tissues of the body. It is also a laminated covering and has as many as six laminations in some areas. It completely […]
Roundtable Rap on Rolfing
Dramatic Personae RF – Roland Fischer ID – Ida Rolf JS – Julian Silverman JL – John Lilly RF. To start out, just a short recapitulation of the discussion yesterday of the sensory motor ratios in relation to the perception-hallucination continuum at higher levels of allotropic arousal… Instead of saying that hallucinations are perceptions without […]
Rolf Is More Than a Four-Letter Word
I have read much material on the physiological aspects of rolfing, and also on the area of pain. Yet my desire to enter into rolfing was only vaguely connected to the ideas of Structural Integration as such, and my experiences as a rolfee were much more important from an emotional than from a physiological aspect. […]
Swedenborg’s Interpretation of the Human Body in the Light of Recent Research – Part II (reprint)
FASCIA The healing arts deal with universal principles, understandable, balanced, relatively unchanging, orderly, constructive, consecutive and true. Man and all things below him are consecutively created for uses on whatever plane or degree they occupy: mineral, plant, insect, animal and man. A know ledge of what is to be is inherent in the seed; the […]
We Dance Beyond Space-Time
SPACE-TIME IS HERE JUST TO HAVE SOMETHING TO DO SO WE PLAY THE GAME WE DANCE THE DANCE THE JOY IS IN THE CHANGE THE PROCESS NOT THE ATTAINMENT WE MAY NEVER COMPLETEL Y EXPERIENCE BEYOND SPACE-TIME YET WE DANCE TOWARD IT One of the most enjoyable reading experiences I have had along the path […]
Osteopathy: Andrew Taylor Still
Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917) was a practicing country doctor in the state of Virginia when he founded and developed the theory and manipulative techniques of osteopathy. Still had lost three of his children to spinal meningitis. It was this tragedy and the common misuse of powerful toxic drugs of the era that led to his […]
U.C.L.A. Project
According to the thesis, the mediating mechanism through which changes in body (structure) are expressed in personality (behavior) is the body image, defined as the inner experience of self-configuration. A discussion of the physiological basis of body image leads to a motor theory of consciousness, and the proposition that conscious imagery is the result of […]
Towards a Psychology of Integration
Body image is the subjective or “inner” experience of self confirmation. Because the function of the image is to reflect the disposition of the self relative to any and all possible exigencies, the image is constantly shifting to provide the ground or context for coping behavior. In the ordinary day to day experience of most […]
A New Look at Eye Training
Vision is an area which to a great extent remains outside the realm of treatment by natural and autogenic methods. The orthodox means is by medical and surgical intervention or by mechanical and optical aids. At the turn or the century, William Bates, an orthodox ophthalmologist, recognized that emotional factors piety a significant role in […]