Resources for Further Exploring Living Intelligence, Embodied Cognition, Yin, etc.
A select list of books, videos, and articles related to living intelligence, mind/cognition, trauma, social disease, mechanistic ideology, and the like.
*Disclaimer: the inclusion of a source here does not necessarily mean that I fully endorse everything that author or organization says. Nobody has a perfect, infallible perspective, even the world's most knowledgeable and experienced experts. Have an open, yet critical mind about anything you read, and always check it against your own direct experience, over time, through a diversity of life experiences. That is the ultimate source of knowledge.*
The lists below are very partial and selective. For a full bibliography of all the sources I used in my doctoral research and the development of Living Heart Intelligence: Soul Care and Somatics, click the button below for a PDF download of a list of over 2,500 books and articles.
Sources on embodied cognition and the life-mind continuity thesis
- John Dewey, Experience and Nature
- Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, The Tree of Life: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding; and Autopoiesis: The Realization of the Living
- Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
- George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
- Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin, Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds Without Content
- David Rome, Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity
- Fred Provenza, Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
Sources on social disease
- Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
- Dr. Stephen Ilardi, Depression is a Disease of Civilization (TEDx Talk)
- Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
- Burton Bledstein, The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America
- Richard Wolff, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save us From Pandemics or Itself
- Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
- Michael Nehls, MD, PhD, The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
Sources on trauma and trauma resolution
- Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma; Healing Trauma: Restoring the Wisdom of the Body; In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
- Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu' Kwasset, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
- Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- Babette Rothschild, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
- David Treleaven, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
Sources on biotensegrity, anatomy, medicinal movement, fitness, etc.
- Graham Scarr, Biotensegrity: The Structural Basis of Life
- Susan Lowell de Solórzano, Everything Moves: How Biotensegrity Informs Human Movement
- Danièle-Claude Martin, Living Biotensegrity: Interplay of Tension and Compression in the Body
- Thomas Myers, Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual Therapists and Movement Professionals
- Carla Stecco, Functional Atlas of the Human Fascial System
Sources on natural intelligence, biological systems, and ecological psychology
- Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Autopoiesis: The Realization of the Living
- Robert Lanza and Matej Pavšič, The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality
- John Dewey, Experience and Nature
- Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology; Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity; Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind