Reorienting to Mindset & Worldview

The Magickal Art of High Strangeness pt 4

This is part 4 of a 5 part series of my latest pamphlet, The Magickal Art of High Strangeness. To purchase your very own copy as a PDF, click here.

Alright, alright, alright. If you’ve been cruising the same segments of the online data highway that I have, you probably know that somatic work is the new, big thing.

If they haven’t already, everyone and their mother is about to be telling you, “get out of your head and into your body!”

And like, careful with those fingers, Spiderman clones! I am on EVERYONE’S SIDE ALWAYS!! I AM A GEMINI MOON, MERCURY, VENUS, (and Black Moon Lilith cough) AND A LIBRA RISING, AND I COME IN PEACE!!!

I’m gonna say this nice and slow so that hopefully everyone hears me…

Mindset and Embodiment are two sides of the same coin. You gotta listen to the strange rumbles and roars of your body and the wyrd machinations of your mind. If you want to change your Self and your Lyfe, you gotta work both paths at once. Because, you might remember, they’re not actually wholly separate entities.

Descartes who??
Dualism what???

Yeah. It’s true. They’re all wired together. You really must not have paid attention in health class. (It’s ok, I, too, was distracted by the visual representations of human fat)

There’s a new Cartesian Dualism at work here. Yeah, I said it, people are getting frisky with Papa René! (🔥 Daddy count: 2) Because the way we talk about the body as Never Wrong and somatic work as panacea, you’d think we had forgotten—mind and body are in a constant, reverberative relationship. Just like everything else in this secretly not-so-dualistic reality, they’re always talking to each other.