Great article. Attending to the sorts of observations he describes here is a great way to get accustomed to perceiving subtle phenomena (qi). But it’s not only coupled to the visual sense. Information perceived with this inner sense can be translated into any sense experience (sight, sound, smell, even taste), or into language or even direct "knowing", and it can provide all sorts of incredibly useful and verifiable information from a distance. I may write a short substack about how this works from what I can see, what I think it tells us about the nature of reality, and why we really need to widen our models of perception beyond "mind is only in the head" and beyond "mind is only in the body."
🆕 Very pleased to share my expanded essay on Somatic-Visual coupling. ⬇️
"Have you ever noticed that with a high degree of accuracy, you know what it would feel like to lick any surface you look at? And I mean just by looking, not actually touching. No? Well, give it a try, now. Look at the nearest table, wall, or whatever object to you and imagine licking it. You have an immediate sense of the felt texture of it, don't you?"View quoted post on X
