The Body Politic is the system and framework of communities engaging in the public expression of private preferences, interests, desires and objectives. Innate Intelligence is a term most commonly used by alternative health care providers to describe the body’s ability to maintain its own health without outside interference. This inaugural presentation of the Conscious Lawyer is grounded in the assertion that there is an Innate Intelligence to the Body Politic like the innate intelligence of the physiology of the body, that allows it to maintain its own balance and resolve its own problems — and that a democratic legal system is how that innate intelligence expresses itself.

According to this analysis, there is a natural, regulating system in The Body Politic which is analogous to the healing systems inherent in the human body. When we deviate from the underlying logic of a sound system, the result is the creation of distortions and, in turn, reactions that will attempt to put the system back into balance. Using the current health care system and emerging alternatives as an example, original Nader’s Raider James S. Turner will discuss how the law serves as an expression of the self-balancing impulse in a community’s relationship with its core reality.

In this two-part presentation consisting of 90 minutes each, Mr. Turner presents his view of how the American Experiment (as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights), and the unfolding ebb and flow of American energy from the time of the Founding to the present, mirror natural health concepts. He then suggests that understanding and applying these concepts can enable lawyers to contribute to healing current social dislocations. Mr. Turner will discuss the underlying logic of this analysis and how the balancing mechanisms of the legal system work most effectively when they are congruent with the bedrock revealed by natural logic.

Mr. Turner will conclude with an introduction to the concepts of Holistic Law, Law as a Healing Profession, and Integral Law, providing guidance to lawyers who practice or who might desire to practice in these ways how to work most effectively to create sustainable, positive changes in the legal system and in society as a whole.

Cost
$75 to view the recorded archive of this 2-part workshop