Spacious Body: Explorations in Somatic OntologyIn Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience. |
Contents
The Umpire of Chaos | 3 |
Experiences of Transformation | 41 |
Oriented Space | 69 |
The AllowingWill | 101 |
The Architecture of Freedom | 133 |
Time Dancing | 189 |
Glossary | 217 |
Selected Bibliography | 239 |
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