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This new equitation treatise gets its originality from the fact that the author could put at the same level the scientist equitation from the innate sphere (to feel) to the one of the knowledge (to perceive), reachable by everyone.
"To understand is to feel" becomes "to understand is to perceive".


To reach this aim, it seems necessary to explain the term "to feel". If "to understand is to feel", we can say that "to feel is to to perceive what is invisible to the naked eye". That is what experience the gifted person who doesn't need to explain what he does because it is well made naturally. I.e. this person was given at his birth an arouse of his curiosity towards the horse, innate faculties allowing him to solve immediately any kind of problem that can occur, without wondering. This rider will follow an intiation course instead of a learning one.

Therefore, he knows without having learnt.
Those among us who don't know (the majority), will have to learn to know their animal to use his capacities in the best way. The learning they will get will be more of the perception side than the real knowledge. They will need a clinical approach of the horse. At first, they will have to discover the more or less serious symptoms of the horse mental and physical bad state thanks to the plain observation trained by the practice. They will then have "a clear and distinct perception" (René Descartes, XVIIth century french philosopher) of the basic problem in front of them. Then they are on the way to solve it. "Horse Oblige II" is only the illustration of the process.

"Our sensations are purely passive instead of our perceptions or ideas which are produced by an active principle that judges". (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, XVIIIth century french philosopher).
Michel FEVRIER