Warming up to the Pluriverse #6: Bonus track – On sexual creative energy

The main conversation ends with the notion of a child-like sexual/sensual energy that we tend to disconnect with while growing up. In the bonus track Camila dives into ‘that beautiful thing that we feel in our whole body’. It is linked to the vagus nerve that connects the brain to our sexual organs. How can we (re)activate this nerve? Listen!

References

• “ The vagus nerve is a wonderful channel of sexual energy.”
  selfcervix.com/pages/science
• “The gag reflex has a lot to do with life and death. It triggers a kind of release.”
  www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/gag-reflex
• Transition Design borrows methodologies from Social Sciences to address so-called “wicked” problems (climate change, poverty, loss of biodiversity, pollution) in an effort to catalyse societal transition towards more sustainable and desirable futures. See critical writings by Cameron Tonkinwise on the matter.
  www.cd-cf.org/articles/design-fo…-from-and-to-what/
• Glossary entry web mag
• Mamihlapinatapai is a beautifully succinct fuegan word referring to seeing and being seen, the meaning of which Chilean curator Camila Marambio phrases as “I know that you know that we both know what we want, but neither of us, neither of I’s, is willing to say so.”
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamihlapinatapai
• About the Pluriverse extra entry (…) One of my ancient poems is about the word recorder, which means to touch again the chords of the heart. “Re” is again, and “cordar” comes from “core”, and “core” is the heart. – Cecilia Vicuña in conversation with Camila Marambio in 2015 in: MARAMBIO Camila, VICUÑA Cecilia, Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja (An ancestral festering wound), Berlin: Errant Bodies, 2019, p.22

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