more on labelling
The below is taken from Gill Clarke's article Mind Is As In Motion. The William James quote is great for this concern or interest in labelling. How might the labelling implode or subvert this 'cutting of days and nights'?
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"In part such practices are trying to redress a balance, turning up the volume on the sensing, intuitive ‘self’, to meet the more dominant rational brain. Psychologist William James wrote insightfully, over a hundred years ago, of the limitations of our over-emphasis on conceptualising and labelling the world:
‘Out of time we cut ‘days’ and ‘nights’, ‘summers’ and ‘winters’. We say what each part of the sensible continuum is, and these abstract ‘whats’ are concepts. The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.’
So dance can play a valuable role in re-asserting, re-experiencing this perceptual present, the undivided self."
