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123. Understanding and Experience

123. Understanding and Experience

“No verbal description can do justice to a technique which involves the changing…of an individual’s sensory experiences. One cannot describe the experience of seeing the colour, red. Similarly one cannot describe the much more complex experience of improved physical coordination. A verbal description would mean something only to a person who had actually had the experience described… Complete understanding of the system can come only with the practice of it.”(Taken from “Ends and Means” p223)

105. Between the Pigeonholes

105. Between the Pigeonholes

“When you get a thing like the Alexander work…who looks after it? It’s neither biology, nor psychology, nor sociology, nor history, nor anything. Therefore, it doesn’t exist. What is obviously needed in academic institutions…is a few people who run about on the woodwork between the pigeonholes, and peep into all of them and see what can be done, and who are not closed to disciplines which don’t happen to fit into any of the categories considered as valid by the…

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