The body is coming back into sight as a site for experimentation and as a target for a type of quasi-transcendence. Within the inverted world of the lesser reality, the physical body has always been recognized as the vehicle through which life is experienced.
In other words, it is our avatar whilst in this realm. As such, it has always been a site of contestation.
In
some religious circles, the body is seen as a material distraction from
the Divine and its influence was seen as needing to be repressed and
subjugated (which may include certain physical deprivations, including
self-harm). Various religio-spiritual perspectives have regarded the
physical body as an obstacle, a barrier, to a sense of the sacred. The
other extreme is that the body is regarded as the ideal vehicle for
experiencing the sensual and sensuous – it is a vessel for indulgence
and decadent experience. Still, there has been no consensus reached over
how to regard the vehicle of the human physical body....<<<Read More>>>...
