ScaryFacts
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| Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Jan. 05 2007,20:52) | Let me share this essay, which I wrote perhaps 15 years ago:
I was brushing my teeth, or doing something else as ordinary, when suddenly struck: I am arches of experience emerging from the workings of my body, a transparent structure of color and action, transacting with an environment that is itself built of both awareness and physicality. A reality that includes body and experience. I am a tower of mental and physical homeostasis and balance, built of many rooms of knowing and behavior, a structure of self.
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I never thought before about brushing teeth being a transcendental experience.
Bill, this is great post. I am beginning to think you (and others) may be correct that our “soul” is not independent of our bodies. As I mentioned in an impossibly long post earlier: Christianity teaches the necessity of a physical body post resurrection. If we didn’t need a body, it seems to me this teaching wouldn’t be so important.
But as I also mentioned, this begs a huge question about where is the soul between death and resurrection. I don’t have any real insight there yet.
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