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The Absurdity of Our Science System
There is something tragically absurd about the system we live in. For centuries, we’ve been told that the key to understanding intelligence lies in knowing the details while ignoring the whole. The very essence of who we are and what we are capable of has been distorted by a framework that separates us from the fullness of our being. Born with the capacity for holistic intelligence, we start our lives with a boundless understanding of the world. But somewhere along the way, this brilliance is shattered, dissected, and relegated to compartments that fail to see the full spectrum of human potential. In this process, we lose the most powerful aspect of ourselves: the ability to see and understand the world and our place in its totality.
From the moment we are born, we enter a system designed to limit our intellectual and individual growth. This system stifles and destroys the embodied, emotional, creative, intuitive, and somatic aspects of our intelligence. It extracts only what is cognitive, placing a premium on rationality and linear thought while suppressing the more expansive forms of intelligence we are born with.
Somatic intelligence — the intelligence of the body — is relegated to the realm of the unscientific, assigned to religion and spirituality. The highest functioning forms of our somatic intelligence are pathologized by science as aberrations or…
