Pub in Well Walk, 90p, for iced water, just to sit down and write this

But now as I transcribe I realise that I didn't note the whole of the thought which the bone broadcast provoked:

The new awareness which it gave me of my bones-and-muscles (and perhaps eventually of all of my body systems as I move about and live) could be the beginning, I saw, of a profound reversal of perception, a change from outward detachment, born of the Renaissance and earlier objectifications, with its split between mind and body, towards the new consciousness in which these are joined. There seems to me to be a way, surprisingly via the apparent objectivity of what those doctors were saying, towards a non-dualist, non-objective, perception of oneself-as-physical-presence which both empties one's self-perception of 'spirit' as well as of 'body', taken as 'things apart' ...

(c) john chris jones 1995