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1980s NYC, Art, and Fashion NYC Downtown Divas at Palladium, LimeLight, Studio 54
In Avant Guard Art and Fashion Performances.
Judges featuring,: Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle. Micheal Musto, Diana Brill, Cookie Mueller.
Shows: Beyond the Velvet Rope. Miss Made Man Transsexual Beauty Pageant. 1986 NYC.
1980s NYC, Art, and Fashion NYC Downtown Divas at Palladium, LimeLight, Studio 54
In Avant Guard Art and Fashion Performances.
Judges featuring,: Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle. Micheal Musto, Diana Brill, Cookie Mueller.
Shows: Beyond the Velvet Rope. Miss Made Man Transsexual Beauty Pageant. 1986 NYC.








![Philip Shepherd Radical Wholeness
Philip Shepherd is recognized as an international authority on embodiment. His unique techniques have been developed to transform our experience of self and world, and are based on the vision articulated in his celebrated book, New Self, New World. The approach he takes heals the frantic, restless pace of the intelligence in the head, which tends to run on overdrive, by uniting it with the deep, present and calm intelligence of the body. This is an antidote to the prevailing view of embodiment, which involves sitting in the head and ‘listening to the body’; by contrast, Philip’s approach helps us listen to the world through the body. His personal path to understanding has been shaped by his adventures as a teenager, when he cycled alone through Europe, the Middle East, India and Japan; by his deep commitment to and studies of bodywork; by his experiences as an actor, playing lead roles on stages in London, New York, Chicago and Toronto; and by the burning desire for freedom that has illuminated his entire life. He currently spends his time divided between teaching international workshops, and working on his second book, Radical Wholeness.
[quote title=”” float=”right”]”You cannot reason your way into being present. You cannot reason your way into love. You cannot reason your way into fulfillment.”[/quote]
New Self, New World explores the implications of the little-known fact that we have two brains: in addition to the familiar cranial brain in the head, there is a “second brain” in the gut. This is not a metaphor. Scientists recognize the web of neurons lining the gastrointestinal tract as an independent brain, and a new field of medicine — neurogastroenterology — has been created to study it.
According to Shepherd, there is a good reason that we talk about “gut instinct.” If cranial thinking sets us apart from the world, the thinking in the belly joins us to it. If the cranial brain believes itself surrounded by a knowable world that can be controlled, the brain in our belly is in touch with the world’s mystery. The fact that the second brain has been discovered, forgotten, and rediscovered by medicine three times in the past century suggests how complicated our relationship with our bodily intelligence is. Philip Shepherd Radical Wholeness](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lqSgtOpKsVw/mqdefault.jpg)

