## Highlights - Speaker 1: are not squelched or denied, but they are regularized. Their stabilised. We we don't want to either pretend we are more spiritual than we are. We are, after all embodied creatures, but neither should we suggests that we are more sensual than we are because we are also rational creatures. And we need to combine the head and the belly in the chest and make ourselves truly rational animals. Which is what you know, that's the classic definition of a human being and that combination, that unification of the two sides of our nature happens symbolically speaking in the chest, [(Time 0:30:19)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63c757370dced53101b0700c) - notes:: Doesn’t really apply well to those who have neurodivergence and issues with emotional regulation - Speaker 0: us that chest. And when we have that chest then you know, like it's like a cooler to the waterfall we can think about and recognize the right response to something and then make it more tuned and congruent with nature and by nature, I'm talking like capital in nature. Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes. So you can, you can discern value within objects that meet your senses. They're not just dumb lee there, They're not just imprinting themselves upon your senses as if you are nothing more than a clay tablet. One of the images that Lewis uses in making this point is the image of the aeolian harp, you know, that stringed instrument that you can put [(Time 0:31:38)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63cb079d0dced531012b8a0d) --- tags: 📥️/🎧️/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - Men Without Chests cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: airr isbn: doi: url: 'https://www.airr.io/episode/60ef036c2ee0340010fbff27' author: "[[@The Art of Manliness]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - Speaker 1: are not squelched or denied, but they are regularized. Their stabilised. We we don't want to either pretend we are more spiritual than we are. We are, after all embodied creatures, but neither should we suggests that we are more sensual than we are because we are also rational creatures. And we need to combine the head and the belly in the chest and make ourselves truly rational animals. Which is what you know, that's the classic definition of a human being and that combination, that unification of the two sides of our nature happens symbolically speaking in the chest, [(Time 0:30:19)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63c757370dced53101b0700c) - notes:: Doesn’t really apply well to those who have neurodivergence and issues with emotional regulation - Speaker 0: us that chest. And when we have that chest then you know, like it's like a cooler to the waterfall we can think about and recognize the right response to something and then make it more tuned and congruent with nature and by nature, I'm talking like capital in nature. Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes. So you can, you can discern value within objects that meet your senses. They're not just dumb lee there, They're not just imprinting themselves upon your senses as if you are nothing more than a clay tablet. One of the images that Lewis uses in making this point is the image of the aeolian harp, you know, that stringed instrument that you can put [(Time 0:31:38)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63cb079d0dced531012b8a0d) --- tags: 📥️/🎧️/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - Men Without Chests cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: airr isbn: doi: url: 'https://www.airr.io/episode/60ef036c2ee0340010fbff27' author: "[[@The Art of Manliness]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - Speaker 1: are not squelched or denied, but they are regularized. Their stabilised. We we don't want to either pretend we are more spiritual than we are. We are, after all embodied creatures, but neither should we suggests that we are more sensual than we are because we are also rational creatures. And we need to combine the head and the belly in the chest and make ourselves truly rational animals. Which is what you know, that's the classic definition of a human being and that combination, that unification of the two sides of our nature happens symbolically speaking in the chest, [(Time 0:30:19)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63c757370dced53101b0700c) - notes:: Doesn’t really apply well to those who have neurodivergence and issues with emotional regulation - Speaker 0: us that chest. And when we have that chest then you know, like it's like a cooler to the waterfall we can think about and recognize the right response to something and then make it more tuned and congruent with nature and by nature, I'm talking like capital in nature. Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes. So you can, you can discern value within objects that meet your senses. They're not just dumb lee there, They're not just imprinting themselves upon your senses as if you are nothing more than a clay tablet. One of the images that Lewis uses in making this point is the image of the aeolian harp, you know, that stringed instrument that you can put [(Time 0:31:38)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63cb079d0dced531012b8a0d)