How can we understand our own body when we have learned since childhood that it is not alive?
A living body and a dead body are not the same thing… but we pretend they are when we study anatomy.
Our entire understanding of the body is based on studies of dead bodies, dissected bodies, and bodies treated as objects.
But is your body really something you have – isn’t your body something you are? Isn’t the body the very place where you exist?
“Fascia and the Living Body” is a document about the scientific understanding of the body as a living whole.
What does it mean to view the body from a perspective of wholeness rather than from a perspective of parts?
What happens when we no longer draw a boundary between the inner and the outer, between the subjective and the objective, or between thoughts, emotions, and physical influence?
What happens when anatomical and physiological studies, conducted according to the scientific method, challenge our entire understanding of what knowledge is and what we can truly say about fundamental questions like what is life and how does life work?
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