In medical school, they repeatedly tell you that there are substantially more microorganisms in your gut than you have human cells - "so who controls who know???". It's so tiresome to hear bullshit like this all the time, knowing it only serves to consolidate a view of Man as just an accumulation of cells, bacteria piss and shit. This worldview really is ingrained into the most fundamental institutions of our society, it is everyhwere... and they tell you that you should eat 0,8g protein / kg lol
I can't think of Descartes' cogito anymore without thinking of Chuang Tzu's Butterfly Dream. For those unfamiliar, the Taoist philosopher once dreamt he was a butterfly, fluttering around all carefree, riding the wind and doing butterfly things. When he woke up he could no longer tell if he was Chuang Tzu dreaming of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being a Chuang Tzu.
The two are similar questions of the nature of reality, but the latter offers a path to transcendence. Like a Zen koan, you ponder the paradox long enough and your brain kinda breaks, leaving you with a floating sensation: Man (aka "self/ego") is butterfly (aka "nature/not you") is man is butterfly is... ad infinitum until you're okay with it being both/neither. And then you can do stuff without being "in your head" all the time. This I believe to be approaching the Eastern idea of enlightenment, which is as you say, to get more into your body, and get your body more into its environment. The answer isn't to further isolate your brain from your body by retreating into a cave of abstract granularity, but to 'float around and find out'.
In medical school, they repeatedly tell you that there are substantially more microorganisms in your gut than you have human cells - "so who controls who know???". It's so tiresome to hear bullshit like this all the time, knowing it only serves to consolidate a view of Man as just an accumulation of cells, bacteria piss and shit. This worldview really is ingrained into the most fundamental institutions of our society, it is everyhwere... and they tell you that you should eat 0,8g protein / kg lol
I can't think of Descartes' cogito anymore without thinking of Chuang Tzu's Butterfly Dream. For those unfamiliar, the Taoist philosopher once dreamt he was a butterfly, fluttering around all carefree, riding the wind and doing butterfly things. When he woke up he could no longer tell if he was Chuang Tzu dreaming of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being a Chuang Tzu.
The two are similar questions of the nature of reality, but the latter offers a path to transcendence. Like a Zen koan, you ponder the paradox long enough and your brain kinda breaks, leaving you with a floating sensation: Man (aka "self/ego") is butterfly (aka "nature/not you") is man is butterfly is... ad infinitum until you're okay with it being both/neither. And then you can do stuff without being "in your head" all the time. This I believe to be approaching the Eastern idea of enlightenment, which is as you say, to get more into your body, and get your body more into its environment. The answer isn't to further isolate your brain from your body by retreating into a cave of abstract granularity, but to 'float around and find out'.
"Continuing existing in such a manner, without a body, is what hell is."
The damned will get their bodies back at the resurrection, too. It will be the opposite sort of experience for them compared to the blessed though.
The battleaxe of the new against the old will be: "Death is rational."