the soul or spirit is never without a body in the dual-aspect monistic world that I will be explaining in our next chapter. It cannot be, since the fundamental ground that is shining through the visionary symbol, subtle body, or landscape is neither mental nor material—which is to say, it is both, or neither. Similarly, every “spiritual” experience is also a “material” or “physical” event. They can never be truly separated because they are not so separated in the ground of all being. The same is true with what we so naively call “sex” and “spirit.” The materialists are right, but they are also
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