Electricity as a Language that Speaks Through the Body
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Strong surges of electricity passing through the body – the metaphysical event is so mysterious, however often this miracle is perceived, no logic or intuition satisfies the How, Why or What. What are the correlations between the innerdance and the strong seizures that happen in people’s bodies? Here we use the radical metaphor of epilepsy to trace what the electricity surges mean, their long-term effects, our historical understanding of this age-old phenomenon. The following is a video from a workshop in Malaysia that demonstrates how epileptic stages are somehow induced in the body in the innerdance processes. |
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One of the first persons I was given an opportunity to practice “healing” upon was a young epileptic boy of about 12 or 13 years of age. I remember being called to a simple fisherman’s hut during one of his seizures. As he gripped my arm with his long-nailed muscular hands (he was extraordinarily large for his age), I had to absorb the electrical surges that flowed through my own body as my slender arm held his chest and his wrists for a long time.
As the young man drew small amounts of blood from my arm, I saw in my mind, colors and various energy sensations filling my brain. I was being given a glimpse into the mind-body of the epileptic. It wasn’t a difficult correlation. By this time, my own body was used to epilepsy-type seizures. I experienced seizures as a child.
In later years, as I read the literatures on Kundalini, I nodded at how epilepsy is deemed vastly misunderstood by medicine; in the understandings of progressive energy science, epilepsy is the strong spiritual pulsation of uninhibited electricity throughout the whole body, which if harnessed properly, brings its initiates into the many stages of the long process of growth and evolution. If epileptics have received the support they needed, we would perceive them not as victims of a broken brain, but as wise beings with messages to contribute.
As so many in the stages of transformation witness the same, epileptics are extremely sensitive to the moon cycle, to foods that alter one’s moods, to music, to particular words, to touch. Even mild sensory inputs might trigger the body systems of epileptics into phases much familiar to innerdances where contractions of magnetism and electricity passing through the body renders a person a conduit for an engulfing amount of life force energy.
Epilepsy has much to reveal in the future, even as it has already done so over the last century. It was because of epilepsy that we eventually found the basic physical mapping that situates our mentality’s basic dualisms. In the early 1960’s, psychobiologist Roger Sperry with his colleagues conducted split-brain experiments on an epileptic patient who needed to have his corpus callosum severed, a practice performed for complex epilepsy sufferers to decrease or entirely discontinue extreme “interhemispheric electrical storms” that could lead to injury or death.
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Located in between, the corpus callosum is the “bridge” between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, consisting of about 200 to 250 million axons that connect both sides.
In the innerdances, streams of electricity flow freely through both brains while participants become willing epileptics, blissing out in a momentary loss of identity and speech, particularly achievable by right-brained dominant minds whose only assurance is that they have such a brain is their depression-laden history. Jenny from New York writes: “my body is still shaking, trembling, seeking for another earthquake. And my eyes have been welling up in appropriate and inappropriate times and places. There will be more cathartic moments, I know. There are still so much to be danced out. But I am willing. I surrender everything to a whole new becoming.” |
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Throughout the 19th century, “epilepsy” was still freely-interpreted (and misinterpreted) as a neurological, psychiatric, or psychosomatic disorder of an unknown pathology. By the first half of the 20th century, racial anthropologists and eugenicists lumped epilepsy as one of key features of “feeble-mindedness” and “decreased intelligence” suffered collectively by the insane, the criminal, the racially disadvantaged, the alcoholics, the dependents, etc.
Especially in America, epileptics were largely forcibly targeted for wide-spread sterilization. In what is thought by some as the worst medical malpractice in US history, epileptics and other mentally-degenerate people were appropriated in places such as the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded. In such sites, over 60,000 people in America were forcibly sterilized from ever having children again, in order to cleanse the race of undesirable bad genetics as part of the global eugenics movement.
Before our eyes, we are witnessing a post-modern re-conceptualization of epilepsy, even as we imagine a new understanding of intelligence. Going further, we behold how the Split-Brain Theory reflexes in its own splitting, succumbing to a primal yet future unified consciousness, abetted by a re-thickening of the corpus callosum that heals broken connections that once separated the left and the right.
It may be too soon to say, innerdance is an “epileptic induction technique.” Prior to this, it may be better to ask, “what is epilepsy” to the wide-eyed spiritual pilgrims whom are often at an aphasic loss for words, but are also somehow, able to wisely comprehend what inhabits the wordless.
Aristotle since antiquity is known as the first thinker to connect epilepsy to genius. He himself experienced seizures, as did his predecessors, Pythagoras and Socrates. Just a few other names who are known to have suffered similar epileptic states are not exactly what one might call feeble-minded or decreased in intelligence: Musicians such as Prince (the singer), Elton John, Beethoven; Artists such as, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Scientists such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alfred Nobel, Isaac Newton; Religious figures such as Martin Luther, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc; Writers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.
A flowing power flickers patiently for however long it takes to enflame a long-forgotten infinite wisdom, embodied and waiting for its fuller expressions in us and many others.
Especially in America, epileptics were largely forcibly targeted for wide-spread sterilization. In what is thought by some as the worst medical malpractice in US history, epileptics and other mentally-degenerate people were appropriated in places such as the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded. In such sites, over 60,000 people in America were forcibly sterilized from ever having children again, in order to cleanse the race of undesirable bad genetics as part of the global eugenics movement.
Before our eyes, we are witnessing a post-modern re-conceptualization of epilepsy, even as we imagine a new understanding of intelligence. Going further, we behold how the Split-Brain Theory reflexes in its own splitting, succumbing to a primal yet future unified consciousness, abetted by a re-thickening of the corpus callosum that heals broken connections that once separated the left and the right.
It may be too soon to say, innerdance is an “epileptic induction technique.” Prior to this, it may be better to ask, “what is epilepsy” to the wide-eyed spiritual pilgrims whom are often at an aphasic loss for words, but are also somehow, able to wisely comprehend what inhabits the wordless.
Aristotle since antiquity is known as the first thinker to connect epilepsy to genius. He himself experienced seizures, as did his predecessors, Pythagoras and Socrates. Just a few other names who are known to have suffered similar epileptic states are not exactly what one might call feeble-minded or decreased in intelligence: Musicians such as Prince (the singer), Elton John, Beethoven; Artists such as, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Scientists such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alfred Nobel, Isaac Newton; Religious figures such as Martin Luther, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc; Writers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.
A flowing power flickers patiently for however long it takes to enflame a long-forgotten infinite wisdom, embodied and waiting for its fuller expressions in us and many others.
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Prior to epilepsy, an aura serves as a prodrome, an early sign or symptom that electricity is about to flash through different areas of the brain, which also takes place in those with migraine disorders. To the viewer, the visual field is distorted, similar to how some people describe what happens in their innerdance process. |
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In the following video, an American nurse attending an innerdance training in Hawaii undergoes a morning seizure, the documentation of which helps us to observe the body mirroring certain brain functions that are activated in the innerdance work.
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Epilepsy and Aphasia - demystifying the Womb
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