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The latest from the Losing Oneself project website:

• embodiment isn’t a match with experience (from Sheets-Johnstone)

• the starlings and the sun and the self as a mirage of the mind

• new resources by Miyahara & Mirfin-Veitch and Vida Midgelow

This small pump-priming project is about to end but I’ll continue to update the blog occasionally (particularly as I start into more writing and more video post-production). Will keep you posted.

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This week from the Losing Oneself project website:

• disambiguating awareness/consciousness from the feeling of a self: nonduality meditation

More soon.

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Three updates this week from the Losing Oneself project website:

1. the active nature of awareness: selfing and awareness-ing

2. the shift from the feeling of awareness-ing to the feeling of becoming the passenger

3. three new references on the project resource page: De Spain, K. (2003) ‘The Cutting Edge of Awareness’, Massimo (2022) ‘“Let the Motion Happen”. The Emergence of Dance from the Felt-Bodily Relationship with the World’, and Doughty, S. (2019) ‘I Notice That I’m Noticing …’.

Thanks for reading.

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This week on the Losing Oneself project website:

• the lucid concreteness of direct experiences through the paradox of the body

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Two updates from the Losing Oneself project website:

• the mental state of inattention and the default mode network

• all eternity is in the moment: the poetics of presence

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One update this week from the Losing Oneself project website:

• how choice happens and how paying attention is ceasing to do something

More next week.

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Three updates this week from the Losing Oneself project website:

1. a video using motion extraction and how motion extraction broadens the gaze across the entire body: shimmer again

2. two separate video streams creating a shimmer duet

3. two new references on the project resource page: “Dance and the specific image: improvisation” by Daniel Nagrin (1994) and “The Moment Of Movement: Dance Improvisation” by Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin (1988)

   Thanks for reading.

   Simon

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Two updates this week from the Losing Oneself project website:

1. when the conviction that we are selves arises

2. one new reference on the project resource page: ‘Being-in-the-Flow: Expert Coping as beyond Both Thought and Automaticity’ by Joshua Bergamin (2017)

More next week.

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Two updates this week from the Losing Oneself project website:

1. the thing itself versus our description of it

2. Two new references on the project resource page: ‘Letting the Body Find Its Way: Skills, Expertise, and Bodily Reflection’ (2023) by Anna Petronella Foultier and ‘Perceiving Subjectivity in Bodily Movement: The Case of Dancers’ (2009) by Dorothée Legrand and Susanne Ravn

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Two updates this week from the Losing Oneself project website:

1. Roger Linden on the sense of self being part of the experience and the value of embracing nonduality

2. One new reference on the project resource page: Kent de Spain’s Landscape of the Now: A Topography of Movement Improvisation (2014)

Thank you for reading.

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Three updates this week from the Losing Oneself project website:

1. The conceptualisation of body awareness and embodiment as “the human experience of simultaneously having and being a body”.

2. The moment in improvising when one becomes a passenger, and asking where the horse is going.

3. Two new references on project resource page: Susan Foster’s “Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull” (2022) and “The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience” (2008) by Rupert Spira.

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Two new posts this week from the Losing Oneself project website:

1. A response to shimmer (here's the original video if you haven't seen it)

2. Rendering visible that which is invisible, and the infraordinary

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Three new posts this week:

1. Thinking about Willian James' statement (from a long time ago) that we experience "the feeling of the same old body always there".

2. In the sensing of a sensation I try and disambiguate sensation, sensing, experience, awareness and consciousness (spoiler: I do a fairly crap job of it)

3. Katye and I were describing how what we are doing in the practice is delicate and this post describes the prospect of discussing (or putting into words) things that are not easily sayable.

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Just a single post this week called shimmer. It contains a short video of an early prototype to document movement when there is very little movement going on.

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Simon

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We had a busy week so here are a few links from losingoneself.coventry.ac.uk:

• 11 March 2024: the paradox of choice – try as we might, we don't ever know what will appear in consciousness next

• 12 March 2024: nonduality – thought it was time I included what nondual awareness is (or how it is described in words)

• 12 March 2024: consciousness – and same goes for describing consciousness (or what it is like to be something)

• 13 March 2024: awareness as modulation of organism and environment – that the skin is not such a useful boundary

• 14 March 2024: next phase – the studio-based work is complete and a few words about what is next and how the blog will start to change

• 14 March 2024: data data data – so many images (and including masking and overlaying images from the studio).

• I've also updated the resources section (which are mostly journal articles at this stage).

Thanks for reading and if you think of anyone who might be interested in this work please do share.

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Here are links to two posts from the last two weeks at losingoneself.coventry.ac.uk:

• 29 Feb 2024: non dual awareness can co-occur with any content – that nonduality is independent of the type of experience

• 8 Mar 2024: low fidelity documentation of high fidelity experiences.

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Here are links to this week's posts at losingoneself.coventry.ac.uk:

• 19 Feb 2024: interpretations of sensory signals – perception and top-down predictions and how they seem to contradict the experience of sensing the body in motion

• 21 Feb 2024: self vs person – human attachment to the notion of self.

• 22 Feb 2024: me doing into it doing itself – an initial (brief) description of the moment in which the feeling of agency while dancing is transferred.

Thanks for reading.