Saturday, February 13, 2010

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience of reality." My experience is psychosomatic, simultaneously embodied and disembodied, simultaneously myself and mybody. Whatever happens to myself, happens to mybody. Conceptually, myself and mybody are analagous. The body of experience is always and only psychosomatic.

The judgement of health or disease touches upon myself and mybody; there is no disease of mybody that is not a disease of myself. To abstract myself and mybody is convenient for physicians but it deceives the would be healer and the other who would be healed. When we are sick in body, we are sick in soul.

Is the human body of experience ever healed of its disease? Health or well-being is a relative state; it is always a question of maintaining the integrity of the organism as against a programed tendency toward disintegration. The desire to dissolve the body arises from the the body itself, it does not come from "outside." Desire is ambivalent, the situation is ambiguous, and the maintenance of myself and mybody is a subtle operation.