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Introduction   |   Theory   |   Summary   |   Practical   |   Audio   |   Appendices

A systems view of biological health

Section 5: Appendices

1 : Index

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 : also see my full Copyright statement.

The appendices are a further expansion of the theory - consisting of a mish-mash of expansions of the online book pages, plus collated PDF files from the original "everything thrown into the pot" version.

Expanded versions of web pages...

What has gone wrong? - a truly depressing list of (just a few of the) mistakes made over the course of the past few thousand years. I blame a little of it on philosophers such as Aristotle and Descartes. But most of it on the Romans - and the handful of Viking families/gangsters who copied the Romans, conquered all of Europe, ran the Crusades and used the Church of Rome as a flagship for their power-politics. The rest is history.

PDF files - the original version of the theory

This was a long project, eventually running to around 1000 pages, in which I thrashed out the ideas behind the online book. Some sections are defunct/superceded, and much of the emphasis would probably change if I started it all again. And most of the writing (along with collected references) stops around 2021 - and there has been a whole raft of further useful research published since then - that would add significantly to the content. However, it has to stop sometime, and there are some interesting ideas in here, and a lot of background references - so it's worth preserving in all its incompleteness and inconsistency. The aim of the main online book (NOT this appendix) is to provide something that tends more towards practical application and away from most hard theory. Here you will find a lot of reading and ideas but almost zero practical application.

NOTE : all these files open in a new tab/window.

Introduction

1. The beginnings of Life

2. Survival - Life's strategies for living

3. Wellness and the universality of gesture

3.1 Boundaries and the Proxemic Field

3.2 The story of Nuntaq the runner

4.1 A brief overview of the senses and a short list viersion

4.2 Sensory integration

5. XXX

6. A Philosophical Interlude

7. XXX

8. Consciousness (Chapter overview)

8.1 Consciousness : Solitons

8.2 Consciousness : Physical models

8.3 Consciousness : Organisational models

8.4 Consciousness : Spiritual models

NNN XXX

Miscellaneous

Other relevant files transferred from my clinic website

Positive Body Awareness - the original practical guide!

Healthy expression of the range of human experience in a 2-D graphic

Vagal Hacks - a selection of simple methods that can (for some people for some of the time) temporarily settle the nervous system into a more regulated state. Useful kit in the toolbox of life to get by. Also as an ePub document

A collection of scripts to assist embodiment - this tries to do too much in too little space, and I've never really been satisfied with it. But nevertheless it's useful.

Mirror Neurons

Why I don't subscribe to PolyVagal Theory

The Three Selves - a reduced interpretation of Max Freedom Long's system of bodies


 
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