The artistic-epistemic aim of this investigation is to unveil new perspectives on relations between the sensible and the intuitively intelligible. Corporeal theory and discursive practice are woven... Show moreThe artistic-epistemic aim of this investigation is to unveil new perspectives on relations between the sensible and the intuitively intelligible. Corporeal theory and discursive practice are woven together into a dancing language. This dancing language conducts movement and thought from a state of being suspended between the physically sensible and the intuitively intelligible towards a place where they come together. Corporeal theory refers to embodied as well as verbal reflections on dance experience as seen from my perspective. The discursive practice engages thought in dialogue with perspectives from physics and psychology on the one hand and metaphysics and revelation on the other.The dialogue between corporeal theory and discursive practice and its resulting dancing language supports the main argument: that the dancing body can act as a creative interface between the physical and the metaphysical. The gap between a wordless corporeal and a verbal, interrogating discourse is bridged by three key concepts: spiritual corporeality, altered states of knowing and embodied gnosis. Meaning unfolds by uniting dichotomies between gravity and levity, between physis and psyche, between matter and spirit. The aim is to better understand the nature and potential meaning of deep incorporation of consciousness and its evolving expression. Show less
New Edge. Technology and Spirituality in the San Francisco Bay Area is a study of the way that technologists, artists, writers and entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area negotiate the events... Show moreNew Edge. Technology and Spirituality in the San Francisco Bay Area is a study of the way that technologists, artists, writers and entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area negotiate the events that have characterized this region since World War II: the rise of the computer industry and of New Age spirituality. The book argues that some of these negotiations have led to a New Edge culture, consisting of high-tech New Agers seeking to produce ways of being, acting and thinking that transcend the modernist assumption that technoscience and spirituality exclude each other. As the chapters progress it becomes clear that the assumed tension between technology and spirituality does not New Edge life sufficiently. New Edge has grown in relation to several other paradoxes that inform everyday life in one of the most high-technological regions in the world. Tracing New Edge back to the 1960s counterculture, this dissertation explores how New Edgers negotiate life in a society that calls itself secular but also believes in ultimate truth, that is both in and out of control, that invites passive consumption as well as active engagement, and that celebrates communal living as much as an individualistic ‘Do It Yourself’ ethic. Show less
