Connected Knowing Exploring Self, Soma, Empathy, and Intuition.

What is truth? What is authority? To whom do I listen? What counts for me as evidence? How do I know what I know? Yet to ask ourselves these questions and to reflect on our answers is more than an intellectual exercise, for our basic assumptions about the nature of truth and reality and the origins of knowledge shape the way we see the world and ourselves as participants in it. (Belenky et al. 1986, 3).

Over the last four-and-half centuries, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions have created a paradigm in which the mind is valued over the body, thinking over feeling