“After all, is the body not a cathedral?”
Although physicists must keep God out of their investigations of God and consciousness out of their investigations of consciousness, what is considered heretical today may not be tomorrow. The successive revelation of unconscious fantasies spur on human movement. When man ventures into the unknown, the imagination acts as an intermediary guidance system. Venturing into the unknown requires that one must activate dormant faculties within both the body and mind. If faith begins where knowledge ends, the inverse is true — knowledge begins where faith is suspended. To build the body, mind, and surrounding world is not an act of faith — it is always the result of activation and implementation of a noble will.
“The body is not a machine to be discarded”
What we observe is in part our own creation. To become conscious of this creative capacity thrusts mankind into the quantum spectrum. The universe reflects what is created, reinforcing the delusion of objectivity. What we view appears, for what is viewed is first created. We must avoid the temptation of reducing the universe to the theory of physics, for the theory of physics does not explain consciousness. This notion does not render the theory of physics irrelevant, it simply highlights the need for a more comprehensive paradigm that considers all that resides within the scientific, religious, and mystical.
The philosopher must continue to investigate the intersection of mind and world, spirit and matter, unconscious psyche and biological functions and processes, all while fashioning the body to be a vessel of creation. Let us consider this — body and world are not the exclusive enclosures of Being. Despite our essence being more than body and world, we must take a first step and reclaim the body that we have been conditioned to neglect and destroy.
Although investigations into consciousness should not be limited to investigations into human consciousness only, let us not neglect the brain of the human organism. Accepting the brain as a transmitter of consciousness — not a producer of it — it can be believed that an individual's consciousness survives, in part after the death of the physical brain and body. Those driven by the hemiplegia of religious neuroticism misinterpret the survival of consciousness after life on earth as a sign to destroy the flesh and neglect the organism. On the contrary, time on earth should be spent preparing all that remains after death for an active and noble existence and persistence. From a Davidian perspective, it is important that time in the earthly dimension is spent cultivating behaviors and regimens that benefit the individual in the hereafter. There is no use of residing in heaven if, while on earth, the will to seek wisdom is absent. After all, is the body not a cathedral? As above, so below remains the transpositional decree of on earth, as it is in heaven.
In our investigation of the hard problem of consciousness, body, mind, and object must be reinvestigated through a panpsychic lense. Perhaps mankind is a fascia that binds the universe together. Such a notion must lead the species to consider itself the universal intersection of creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing) and creatio continua (continual creation). Unfortunately, as a species, we have gone beyond the simple prohibition of fleshly pleasures and committed to the complete annihilation of the human organism through the implementation of cyber-physical systems that regulate our behaviors and attentions. The body is not a machine to be discarded but is a vessel of creation. To destroy the body is to destroy the capacity to create. The prohibition of creative capacities of the flesh creates an even stronger proactive urge to transgress such prohibitions in our quest to understand psyche and world — or more accurately, the world as psyche. This transgressive quality, the proactive urge to transgress beyond the veils and taboos which cordon off knowledge of the Self and the body, is a part of the Davidian ethos which results in celebratory jouissance that enables the development of a noble will through the fashioning and forging of a noble physical body. For the body is not simply an aggregate of materials, but is a vessel of energies and principles which seek full manifestation.
“To destroy the body is to destroy the capacity to create.”