THE FUTURE OF THE BODY

 “The Future of the Body” evokes the question, “What is the body of the future?”

Will it glisten? Will the people of the world become like bones with the spaces between like the joint spaces of the larger world- together, a giant dancing body, our coodinated movements articulating the collective dreams of humanity?

The future lies always in a dream-time, just ever out of reach. We can not know what our dream will be, but we can prepare the way - as in each miraculous birth.

Respect for the future draws us back meaningfully to the present. Each thought, feeling and touch is the gateway to the bright unknown.

The body of the future may be in the shape of a prayer. Imagine humanity arranged and moving in bodies, minds, hearts and communities in such a way as to optimally attract the most wonderful of possible futures. With every breath we pray and we know - we are the wind in the sails of the future.

- David Lauterstein (written for the brochure for the National Zero Balancing Conference, “The Future of the Body”, Baltimore, 1999).