Sensory recovery for the purpose of collective awakening is not a personal act. It must be done in relationship. It is a project of discovering shared reality. This requires us to recover the ability to have a shared sense of what is happening in the space we share in common.
Sensing what we share in common, or common sense, requires both empathy and sovereignty. The ability to be grounded and available at the same time- to be touched by the other and to stay in touch with one's own shape.
Over the last 500 years humans have gone through a big shift in the way we live and perceive ourselves as a whole. The ways we experience our collective and personal shape has changed and continues to rapidly shift.
Countless wars and colonizations have spread and are spreading across humanity that use sexual disempowerment, destruction of commonly held lands and the mechanization of the body to dominate. For most of us, and as a collective, this has meant tuning out our subtler anatomy of perception in favor of survival strategies.
The elders say that humanity is in a moment of great potential. We are faced with the possibility of awakening to a greater capacity to sense our connection with each other, the earthbody and our place of origin.
They liken the possibility of this awakening to a wiggling of limbs that have fallen asleep. Our anatomy of perception and our common sense are intact- and they have gotten numb. We are in a moment where humanity has the potential to refresh our ability to sense and move as a coherent organ- in stewards of the earthbody.
Through mutual care, art, storytelling and music, Our Anatomy is experimenting to create spaces of sensory recovery. We are reviving the ancestral practice of sensing the the space between us with the hope that humanity can regain common sense.