Embodied Nature and Health: How to Attune to the Open-source Intelligence [Paperback]

Marcin FabjaDski is Assistant Professor at Uniwersytet Zlski in Katowice, the founder of the Apennine School of Living Philosophy in Italy, and a guest lecturer at the Sapienza and the Roma Tre universities in Rome. He is the author of several books published in Poland and Italy, including Stoicyzm uliczny (Street Stoicism) and Uwolnij si: Dobre |ycie wedBug siedmiu filozof?w-terapeut?w (FreeYourself. A Good Life According to Seven PhilosopherTherapists).

This book describes how, as a species our survival and capacity to flourish depends on realizing the intimate relationship of humans with nature through active, embodied participation with nature. Living within the physicality of the planet is not a limitation, rather it is our liberation. Full realization of the consequences of this relationship, through embodied action, can liberate us from ego-dependence and transform us into a community of interdependent and flourishing beings.

Embodied Nature and Health: How to Attune to the Open-source Intelligence describes a systems analysis of presence-centered cultivation of well-being through particular ways of being physically and mentally active in relation to nature that aims at helping the individual attune to natures rhythms. The systems analysis proposes the hypothesis of the Open-source Intelligence: an intelligence which originates from the placement of individual organisms in the tissue and the process of life. This framework draws upon and integrates contemporary research into the humannature relationship and human well-being, and ancient philosophies that were developed prior to the Cartesian gap between the mind and the body, as well as using an auto-ethnographic approach dervied from the experience of the author.

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