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1) The Black Winged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind.  David Peat.  Chap 7 p175-204 Creativity and the Body. Book
                - reforming what we think about the body

2) The Taoist Experience: An Anthology.  Livia Kohn. Chap 5 and 6 p133-190. Book
               - religious influences on the way we think of the body

3) Health and Long Life: The Chinese Way.  Livia Kohn. Chap 4. Book. 
              - Chinese understanding of the mind

4) The Varieties of Sensory Experience.  David Howes (Ed.).  Chap 5 p61-78. Anthony Synnott. Journal.
              - Reforming our understanding of the senses.

5) Sensuous Scholarship. Paul Stoller. Book
              - Reforming the way we approach the body in scholastic settings

6) Empire of the Sense. David Howe (Ed). Chap 3 Susan Stewart p59-69, 7 Alain Lorbin p128-142, 16 David Howes p281-303. Journal
             - understanding the relationship between the senses and perception

7) Discovering The Body's Wisdon. Knaster. Book
            - understanding the usefulness of the body

8) Concentration and Contemplation: A Lesson in Learning to Learn. Robert Altobello. Article
            - reforming the understanding of mind-body an scholastic settings

9) The Book of Internal Exercises. Stephen T. Chang. Chap 3. Book
           - Learning to work with the body, and the Chinese/Daoist view of the body

10) Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking. A.C. Graham. Journal
           - understanding Chinese thought processes

Plus a few more.

New Abstract

Abstract:  This paper will aim to be a comparative paper on how academia in the West, specifically Europe and America, and academia in the East, specifically China, approach the body in scholastic settings.  The research method is interdisciplinary and will have sources in psychology, philosophy, somatics, religious studies, and anthropology.  It will focus the mind-body split in the West, where and how it originated. How the mind/body is being viewed in contemporary thinking.  It will compare these findings to religious/scholastic philosophers of Daoist and Confucian thoughts on the body, their origins and how they are being used in contemporary thinking.  Afterwards, I will focus on the psychological and social effects of how a lack of movement in the scholastic settings versus more active scholastic settings.   

            Thesis:  The way in which Western academia approaches mind over matter in scholastic settings actually does more harm than good to overall health and mental development.