# "The Flesh of Language" by David Abram \[Cosmos Café 2021-09-30\]

**URL:** https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-flesh-of-language-by-david-abram-cosmos-cafe-2021-09-30/4934
**Category:** Cosmos Café
**Tags:** abram, phenomenology, event, language, cafe
**Created:** [September 26, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-flesh-of-language-by-david-abram-cosmos-cafe-2021-09-30/4934 "2021-09-26T13:18:06Z")
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#### Post date: [September 22, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-flesh-of-language-by-david-abram-cosmos-cafe-2021-09-30/4934/5 "2021-09-22T20:55:14Z")

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> [@On another topic](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/4891/51):
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> Is there a latent proposal to follow the month (2 sessions) on Alderman/Integral Grammatology with a reading of some part of at least of Abrams’ _The Spell of the Sensuous_ ? If so, I would heartily second that. Something I learned this past weekend is how much I miss and crave a deeper relationship with the natural world and all its magic—yet how mental and modern I still am and will always be on some strata of my being. Yet the spiritual is all of it. As William Blake wrote, and Ginsberg echoed: _For every thing that lives is Holy!_

We (those in attendance and vicariously me, along with you, additional reader) concluded during the closing of Integral Grammatology 2 Café with an eye and ear examining our next route. Mention of _Spell of the Sensuous_ produced whoops and ahhhs and cheers. I am rereading this glorious book and extracting much, much more than my previous reading ten or so years ago. Posting here and now to get our inner ears into gear.

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Recirculating some media here that can be used as our core focus or as supplemental-complementary.

- @hfester suggested the chapter [“The Flesh of Language”](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/uploads/short-url/sjQfLwPIaaeDd3MUwQRkIlsRZ0H.pdf) (1.9 MB) a seventeen page read.

- @johnnydavis54 posted this delightful offering which, along with the above chapter, receives my vote as our core focus.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t4JvdXjUwfc/maxresdefault.jpg "The Commonwealth of Breath: Climate and Consciousness in a More-than-Human World") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JvdXjUwfc)

- @madrush posted this Terrence McKenna snippet which is in the same vein:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CfNt-ZIqYEU/hqdefault.jpg "Terence McKenna: The Language of Reality") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNt-ZIqYEU)

- [Sleight of Flower — Caesura](https://caesuramag.org/posts/george-quasha-sleight-of-flower) (from [this thread](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2021-04-29-the-wholeness-of-nature-4/4765/9) in which Heather suggested Abram’s chapter.)

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We have already blanketed the ground with droplets dripping with ripe fruit seeding future fruition. All within the merry month of September! Looking beyond and still within the same bountiful deep-thought-provoking material is

[_Consciousness Unbound_](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/consciousness-unbound-liberating-the-mind-from-the-tyranny-of-materialism-24-25-september/4928)  
_Exostudies_  
_Insert Your Media Here_

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