The Space Between Direct Experience and Physiologic Reality

I find this to be the trickiest subject in manual medicine -- how to value the direct experience of palpation, while staying limber in my explanatory mechanisms.
This class clip focuses on Cranial Osteopathy and its primary originator, William Garner Sutherland. I try to make the point that even Sutherland displayed the kind of intellectual humility that is vital if we're going to keep evolving our work.
Please forgive the narrowness of the discussion here -- I know that there are many traditions of Cranial Osteopathy, craniosacral work, and related fields. I hope you will still entertain the need for a skeptical inquiry alongside an embrace of our phenomenal experience -- that these are not in competition but vital twin spirits in our work.
If you're interested in further study, I teach a class called 'Craniosacral for Skeptics' with both an online and in-person version. -- bit.ly/2BAbqXN
REFERENCES:
A rat in the sewer: How mental imagery interacts with object recognition (Karimpur & Hamburger 2018)
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An investigation into the regulation of intra-cranial pressure and its influence upon the surrounding cranial bones (Graham Gard 2008)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19524...
Active Inference, Attention, and Motor Preparation (Brown et al 2011)
www.researchgate.net/publicat...