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Embodiment and creative imagination – part 2

Continuing with quotes from R. Bosnak, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel. Bold emphasis is mine. On flashback and trauma, or how to change the past: Flashback-type memory is completely different from the discursive, narrative memory of ordinary

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Embodiment and creative imagination – part 1

Some quotes from R. Bosnak, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel. Bold emphasis is mine. The most absolute and unmediated form of embodied imagination is a dream. It instantaneously presents a total world, so real that you are

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Embodiment, culture, childhood

I have been working at my local public library branch for most of this week. I come here every morning and station myself at the corner table in the children’s section. I like working in the children’s section primarily because

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Spectator as spectacle

Tavakoli-Targhi uses “Persianate Europology” in reference to writings about Europe by Persian chroniclers. I’m beginning to see the utility of Persianate as it refers to cultural production in and outside geographical borders of Iran (whose territorial lines are still unclear

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On embodiment

I’m reading some material in cognitive science to develop an understanding of the role of embodiment in cognition and thus in cultural development and phenomena. This I feel is essential both in understanding the encounters between Iranians and Europeans and

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