"But there is a new wilderness, a new trackless waste, a new unknown and limitless territory, a new terrain of chaos, that calls us. It is a territory that has not been, and cannot be, colonized and domesticated by human ambition and greed, that in its true extent cannot be mapped by human logic at all. This is the "forest" of the human body. The body is now our forest, our jungle, our "outlandish" expanse in which we are invited to let go of everything we think, allow ourselves to be stripped down to our most irreducible person, to die in every experiential sense possible and see what, if anything, remains. In this, I am speaking not of the body we think we have, the body we conceptualize as part of our "me" or my self-image. Rather, I am talking about the body that we meet when we are willing to descend into it, to surrender into its darkness and its mysteries, and to explore it with our awareness."
- Reginald Ray, Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body, p. 12
"Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body."
By Reginald A. Ray, Ph.D..
Boulder, Colorado, Sounds True, 2008. Index, 393 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59179-618-3. VSCL.
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