Returning to direct somatic experience can re-vision thinking and change perception (attributed to Reason)¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 2000 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because a design page cites it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Peter Reason's participatory inquiry holds that allowing direct experience of feeling the presence of the world enables re-visioning thinking and changing perception. → Loper 2000

Evidence¶

Loper 2000¶

Loper, Paul. (2000). Chormmunity: Co-Creating Embodied Community. ERIC Document ED443009. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED443009

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

The review-style article attributes this position to Peter Reason (1994) and his Future Participation Consciousness, quoting his call for "a return to the concrete and kinaesthetic knowing of the body". No empirical test is reported; the article presents it as an argument linking transformative learning to holistic inquiry.

"once we allow ourselves to return to a direct experience of feeling the presence of the world, we can re-vision our way of thinking and thus change our experience of perception"

Discussion¶

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