The human body marks a confrontation between conscious and unconscious processes, or, between concepts and imagination. Unconscious processes do not fabricate a difference between inside and outside; conscious processes are the fabrication. Consciousness is a recognition of reality, those laws which contradict imagination. Magic Man mistakes concepts for images.

The road to reality begins with a wish. Wishing implies that something is missing. Human technology, whether it be magic, religious, or scientific, manifests this desire to incorporate the missing part. For Magic Man that missing part is like himself, for Religious Man the missing part is like his Parents, and for Scientific man, the missing part is the conceptual universe. If there are to be concepts there must be a missing part.

The imaginal body, the unconscious body, has no knowledge of the missing part. The unconscious body imagines, it doesn't know, it is not a "whole that is greater than the sum of its parts." This body exists in human experience, just as the real body exists in human experience. Imagination is before the conceptual process begins and after it ceases; it is the "primordial soup."