The vision that people had about the human body has evolved over time. Rather, it has continuousl... more The vision that people had about the human body has evolved over time. Rather, it has continuously changed, because "evolution" meant not every time, at every moment of a changing of the paradigm, an increasingly clarification, a more sharp image that cultures have developed in relation to the human body. Most radically different conception of the role, significance and symbolism of the human body were recorded-in the European space-between Roman and Greek antiquity and the debuts of Christian era. Worshiped in Antiquity and mortified by Christians the human body was the battlefield where were fought the fiercest ideological battles of the first millennium AD. And the fight-in a deaf form-continues... Radical difference between the way the human body it was and is still regarded were recorded and longer found today across and beyond the dividing line that separates the western world from Orient. If we stand-symbolically speaking-midway between the two worlds we see that, by contrast with the sombre, visceral vision of the body that it was building in the Western world, due in part to an iconography that emphasized (especially in the Gothic sphere) suffering, martyrdom, ascesis, emaciation and death, the Far Eastern world inherited and was cultivating by tradition the concept of a luminous body built in perfect harmony with the universe. The disciplining of the body in Far Eastern cultures known in the Hindu space as tapas – ardour, even though it has some similarities with Western ascesis, is oriented, by contrast with the former, towards the superior tuning of the body's energy strings, towards the idea of obtaining resonance with the universe's ethereal planes, and by no means towards the maceration of the 'flesh' as sole solution for obtaining spiritual volatility. The Yoga and Zen disciplines approach the body from a perspective diametrically opposed to the European one; while Western ascesis is 'flagellating' at the bodily level and glorifying in the sphere of man's spiritual 1 1 Sergiu Anghel graduated with a degree in choreography in Cluj and Bucharest, having previously obtained a degree in letters at the University of Bucharest, with a major in Romanian and a minor in French. His PhD thesis was entitled 'Archetype Dance in 2002'. He is a member in full standing of CIDD-Unesco and of ITI-Bucharest. He has printed two specialty books and has authored over 20 TV film shows, having written the scripts and dramatic texts of those works. He has been made an Officer of the Order for Education ([email protected])
The vision that people had about the human body has evolved over time. Rather, it has continuousl... more The vision that people had about the human body has evolved over time. Rather, it has continuously changed, because "evolution" meant not every time, at every moment of a changing of the paradigm, an increasingly clarification, a more sharp image that cultures have developed in relation to the human body. Most radically different conception of the role, significance and symbolism of the human body were recorded-in the European space-between Roman and Greek antiquity and the debuts of Christian era. Worshiped in Antiquity and mortified by Christians the human body was the battlefield where were fought the fiercest ideological battles of the first millennium AD. And the fight-in a deaf form-continues... Radical difference between the way the human body it was and is still regarded were recorded and longer found today across and beyond the dividing line that separates the western world from Orient. If we stand-symbolically speaking-midway between the two worlds we see that, by contrast with the sombre, visceral vision of the body that it was building in the Western world, due in part to an iconography that emphasized (especially in the Gothic sphere) suffering, martyrdom, ascesis, emaciation and death, the Far Eastern world inherited and was cultivating by tradition the concept of a luminous body built in perfect harmony with the universe. The disciplining of the body in Far Eastern cultures known in the Hindu space as tapas – ardour, even though it has some similarities with Western ascesis, is oriented, by contrast with the former, towards the superior tuning of the body's energy strings, towards the idea of obtaining resonance with the universe's ethereal planes, and by no means towards the maceration of the 'flesh' as sole solution for obtaining spiritual volatility. The Yoga and Zen disciplines approach the body from a perspective diametrically opposed to the European one; while Western ascesis is 'flagellating' at the bodily level and glorifying in the sphere of man's spiritual 1 1 Sergiu Anghel graduated with a degree in choreography in Cluj and Bucharest, having previously obtained a degree in letters at the University of Bucharest, with a major in Romanian and a minor in French. His PhD thesis was entitled 'Archetype Dance in 2002'. He is a member in full standing of CIDD-Unesco and of ITI-Bucharest. He has printed two specialty books and has authored over 20 TV film shows, having written the scripts and dramatic texts of those works. He has been made an Officer of the Order for Education ([email protected])
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