Somatic Theory

Over the course of human history the body, as a means of understanding reality, has been downplayed in favour of the mind. This was not always the case. In ancient Greece there was a tradition of philosophy that honoured the body as a source of wisdom that served as a counterbalance to an undue emphasis on the mind or cerebral thought. It it only in recent times that we have come to see rational thought and action to be the sole province of the cerebrum. In order to restore the balance between "psyche" and the "soma" we must go back and recover this neglected source of rationality, or in other words to reconceptualize our current narrow view of rationality so that it incorporates knowing with the mind and knowing with the body.

A detailed discussion of Somatic Theory and Four Modes of Human Rationality
can be found here.