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Originally posted by :::OshnSoul:::
oh, sure- but then I remind myself that this is only a costume- a tool to experience life in a physical manner. Why not think beyond the mind and the body and what we see right in front of us? There is so much more out there that simply goes unseen to the naked eye and the wandering mind. I choose to just experience it all.
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Because the mind and body are the tools we have to perceive the world around us, we are stuck in the physical world. Johnson and Lakoff address this in their work
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. Metaphorically, I understand what you're saying, but in a practical manner that I can apply to my existence it doesn't quite work. I appreciate the metaphor of unity, and I understand it as something we all strive for. I just don't experience it, not on a universal level. I experience as much as I can...