Body, Spirit, and Democracy - Softcover

Johnson, Don Hanlon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155643166X ISBN 13: 9781556431661

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 1994

Synopsis

Body, Spirit and Democracy addresses how can we, of different ethical values, spiritual commitments, and ethnic backgrounds, work together to create a more humane world. The unique perspective on this common concern is from the author's lifetime of work within the family of body-therapies, exercise and movement disciplines that emerged in Northern Europe and the United States during the middle of the 19th Century. In the spirit of 12-step meetings and Native American circles, the author tells a number of stories of his and others' journeys, which illustrate how the most seemingly abstract spiritual notions about life are distilled from dense bodily experience. By connecting the flesh of stories with the abstractions of spiritual and philosophical viewpoints, the author situates himself among the many activists, intellectuals, artists, and religious workers who are working towards accustoming people to embracing spiritual diversity as more healing than the monistic alternatives.

About this title

About the Author:

Don Hanlon Johnson received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University. He is a professor of Somatics at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Review:

"Body, Spirit and Democracy is an important step towards our recovery of bodily reality in the life of the human spirit."
- Michael Murphy, founder of Esalen Institute; author,The Future of the Body; Golf in the Kingdom

"No one now exploring the relation of body, spirit and politics in the field of Somatics writes with the depth of experience or clarity that Don Hanlon Johnson has achieved in Body, Spirit, and Democracy."
- Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly

About this edition

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 155643166X
• ISBN 13: 9781556431661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240