7 Quotes by Neil Lewis

Estrangement from the world is to be expected when one is already estranged from one’s body. Adventurous activity, on the other hand, serves to unite the body and the world. Hence the fundamental flaw in dualistic approaches to the world … the groundlessness of Cartesian-style thought.

Tactile navigation - the kinaesthetic moving/touching of the body - is the total embodied awareness of a body in an environment. Knowledge is made corporeal with the sense of touch replacing that of sight as the primary mode of gathering data

A body in motion is a body endowed with kinaesthesis. The word kinaesthesis comes from the Greek word kinein, meaning to move, and aisthesia, to perceive. Kinaesthesis is thus the sense that informs you of what your body is doing in space through the perception or sensation of movement in the joints, tendons, and muscles … Kinaesthesis is therefore an embodied sense of awareness, and perhaps most akin to having an adventurous experience.

the body in motion configures a particular experience of self and nature.

To engage with the world tactually is to situate oneself consciously in that world and to have a potentially unmediated relationship with it. Modernity, on the other hand, seeks to mediate our relationship with the world

Life becomes easy in the metropolis because one is no longer at the helm, making decisions. No physical effort is required for we are now being carried by the modern tide … Mental and physical exertion has been superseded by an all-pervading passivity

the body is the most fundamental means of communication and interaction with the world