Sometime in the early part of 2017, Joyce lost her eyesight after attending another innerdance energy school. Not for hours, or days but for weeks.
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During that time, she wrote:
"Everything was a haze. I could see faint watery outlines but with zero detail - no letters, no figures, no forms. Did I just go blind? Losing my eyesight is my greatest fear and I couldn’t believe it was happening to me. Despite the blazing rays of sun outside, I couldn’t see anything but blobs of hazy, dim light. It was like my eyes stopped assimilating light from outside. 'Is this really happening?' was the question that kept repeating itself in my mind. Later, we came to Bahay Kalipay and had an inner dance session. My vision didn’t come back after the session, but there was a significant shift in me just by being around people who didn’t feel scared for me and trusted that this was part of the process. I went to rest after the session, and the moment I closed my eyes, an intense explosion of visuals appeared behind my eyes. It was the most amazing visual show I have ever witnessed in my life. |
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I started writing this thing this afternoon. It is now nighttime. I have just opened my eyes after an hour of lying down with eyes closed, watching all kinds of things dance behind my eyes. As I write now, I hear the waves roar loudly, I hear the air whisper softly, I hear my heartbeat quietly, I hear the moon sing delightfully, I hear the earth pulsate rhythmically. I hear all of this inside me, and through these sounds, I see clearly. There is nothing to see and yet I see everything. I can live like this forever.
I lost my ‘normal’ vision, but I didn’t really lose my sense of sight. I realized I have always been seeing not just through the eyes. I see with my hands. I see through sound. I see in so many ways. Everything is my eye. I am everything."
In this sharing, Joyce visits features of our Mind left out by our visual-dominant perspectives. Innerdance, as a process, reminds us of a way of "Seeing-through-Hearing," a synesthesia of sound within image.
Joyce describes how we might experience the essence of our words or thoughts. Before we learned to compress information into concepts, our thoughts came about from a generalized field.
Thought Sees Totalities and Particulars.
Prior and Posterior to Categories, Thought Sees Wholes and Parts.
It is not coincidental that the first school in Psychology is called Structuralism, a reductive study of the Mind (initially through Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener) whose main project was to reduce mental processes down into their basic categorical elements, using early introspective techniques to analyze the inner processes of the human mind.
Later, Gestalt Psychology initiated a school of psychology based on the idea that we experience things as Unified Wholes. This approach to psychology began in Germany and Austria during the late 19th century in response to the molecular approach of structuralism. Instead of breaking down thoughts and behavior to their smallest elements, the gestalt psychologists believed that you must look at the whole of experience. According to Gestalt thinkers such as its principal thinker Max Wertheimer, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The movements between Structure and Deconstruction, Reduction and Holism can be seen in all domains of the study of the Mind, Brain, Language, Culture, History and the Body.
In innerdance, we experience the structure of Whole and Parts from the Origins of Thought, where we are able to imagine, what was it like, prior to the mind's capacity to separate Nothing and Everything, into the Infinite Things of this World, those Things Called Concepts.
In our Brains, Whole and Parts cross each other - once separate, they come to know each other - sometimes ecstatically, sometimes, in painful transitions.
In the following video, an American nurse in Hawaii underwent an innerdance process with a group of people. What happens between the visual and auditory cortex in the innerdance, is experiential in the migraine where neurological circuits start to cross wire with each other. Here, Mary sees and describes right after the experience, what is internally at work inside our heads as we weave the spaces of vision and audition, through the body's intuitive movements.
As you watch the video, ask yourself, What Roles Do Movements Play in Connecting Both Sides of our Brains?
I lost my ‘normal’ vision, but I didn’t really lose my sense of sight. I realized I have always been seeing not just through the eyes. I see with my hands. I see through sound. I see in so many ways. Everything is my eye. I am everything."
In this sharing, Joyce visits features of our Mind left out by our visual-dominant perspectives. Innerdance, as a process, reminds us of a way of "Seeing-through-Hearing," a synesthesia of sound within image.
Joyce describes how we might experience the essence of our words or thoughts. Before we learned to compress information into concepts, our thoughts came about from a generalized field.
Thought Sees Totalities and Particulars.
Prior and Posterior to Categories, Thought Sees Wholes and Parts.
It is not coincidental that the first school in Psychology is called Structuralism, a reductive study of the Mind (initially through Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener) whose main project was to reduce mental processes down into their basic categorical elements, using early introspective techniques to analyze the inner processes of the human mind.
Later, Gestalt Psychology initiated a school of psychology based on the idea that we experience things as Unified Wholes. This approach to psychology began in Germany and Austria during the late 19th century in response to the molecular approach of structuralism. Instead of breaking down thoughts and behavior to their smallest elements, the gestalt psychologists believed that you must look at the whole of experience. According to Gestalt thinkers such as its principal thinker Max Wertheimer, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The movements between Structure and Deconstruction, Reduction and Holism can be seen in all domains of the study of the Mind, Brain, Language, Culture, History and the Body.
In innerdance, we experience the structure of Whole and Parts from the Origins of Thought, where we are able to imagine, what was it like, prior to the mind's capacity to separate Nothing and Everything, into the Infinite Things of this World, those Things Called Concepts.
In our Brains, Whole and Parts cross each other - once separate, they come to know each other - sometimes ecstatically, sometimes, in painful transitions.
In the following video, an American nurse in Hawaii underwent an innerdance process with a group of people. What happens between the visual and auditory cortex in the innerdance, is experiential in the migraine where neurological circuits start to cross wire with each other. Here, Mary sees and describes right after the experience, what is internally at work inside our heads as we weave the spaces of vision and audition, through the body's intuitive movements.
As you watch the video, ask yourself, What Roles Do Movements Play in Connecting Both Sides of our Brains?