From intellectualisation to embodiment and the poetic

My mind is sharp. I move through complexity with relative ease when it comes to the domains of the intellect. I would be comfortable sitting in dialogue with most of the intellectual elite – the majority of them, still to this day, men. Sigh!

Yet I must move my body strenuously every day. I like to test my physical skills and strength. I need to make things. Touch. Experience. I like to bake – the daily practice of alchemy. Embodied learning is my pathway. 

Our current world is saturated by the intellectual. The foil to this is the ridiculous anti-intellectual conspirators, tired of being spoken down to as if stupid. Mostly not stupid. Uneducated. Denied access. Treated with disdain. Shamed. 

Unity is plural, at minimum two. To the intellectual, we need the embodied. The artists and poets. The creators and weavers. The builders and creators. 

Learning and education that does not honour both is learning that creates a fracture in the web of existence. To deny the embodied, the poetic, is to create further division, as the intellectuals are usurped by the conspirators. We see this happening more each day.

Yet the embodied and poetic have been dismissed by so much of academia and science. Not relevant. 

Wisdom of the ages teaches that it is mind, body and spirit. We think and dialogue. We move our bodies, create art and fix things. We have connection to something greater than self. We live with purpose and intent. We belong and have relevance.

Until we return to the whole expression of our being, the world will continue to teeter totter on the precipice of madness. 

Photo Taken September 25th 2025, Article published September 25th, 2025