Somatic Science® draws from several traditions that highlight human presence, awareness, and transformation. While the framework is rooted in contemporary neurocognitive research, these influences contribute to its depth and orientation:

• Georges Gurdjieff emphasized the role of attention and self-observation in freeing human experience (our essence) from mechanical patterns (our acquired personality). His work underscores the importance of voluntary presence and conscious participation, themes that echo in the Somatic Science® emphasis on real-time awareness.

• Ming Pang, founder of Zhineng Qigong, articulated a vision of human life as the interaction of consciousness, energy, and information. His systemic approach to the integration of consciousness parallels Somatic Science® in recognizing coherence between internal experience and external environment. This is how the human experience relates to and becomes one with Nature.

• Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Ma embodies compassion and unconditional acceptance. This orientation toward relational openness resonates with Somatic Science® principles of safety and connection as foundational for transformation.

• Francis Lucille and his teacher Jean Klein emphasize the direct recognition of awareness as the ground of experience. His teachings highlight simplicity and immediacy, which inform the Somatic Science® focus on perception free from conceptual overlays. This is the nondual perspective where intelligence and experience are inseparable. This view supports the Somatic Science® orientation toward curiosity and discovery beyond fixed identity.

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Together, these influences contribute to Somatic Science® by affirming that human well-being arises when awareness, relationship, and embodied experience are engaged in freedom rather than constraint.