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world. Watch a wild animal's response to its

environment. It will react in a more rapt,

effective and concentrated way than we

civilised human beings have been capable of

for millennia. Life can - life does! - go on

without thought. If a surgeon were to open up

your skull and cut the nerve fibres that lead to

the rational speech and thought centres in the

cortex, the rest of your body would still react

to the perceptions transmitted through its five

senses. It’s the body that incorporates the

mechanisms by which we see, hear, taste,

touch and smell the world in which we live.

Without the unconscious, unreasoning flesh

we would have no means of constructing our

images of present reality.

We can’t hide away from the world, nor

should we – we’re an integral part of it, not

separated from it somehow. There is actually

no need to resist it, fight it, or to try to change

it. We can only hope to truly know ourselves