I was doing some reading to try to think of something to write for this blog and I ran across something that pointed out that in primal religions there is not a distinct line between the physical and the spiritual, as there is in our everyday lives. I don't know if this would be an advantage or a disadvantage. It seems obvious and easy to say that it would be better to be united with our souls in the physical state. But I want to argue the opposite. The physical is not always a place and in the attempt to perfect a soul, I think the ability to shield it from the physical helps it. I am not saying to completely never let the spiritual side (which I am calling the soul) come into the physical, for it seems it must. I am arguing that sometimes we need to go about the physical, the boring, the repetitive and not let our souls fall victim to our bodily chores. The soul should sour, to bring it into the physical seems to handicap it.
On the other side, uniting the two allows for the mundane to become more than mundane. I'm afraid that there will always be mundane chores though, so I must agree with my previous argument.
work cited:
Hoare PhD., Timothy D. "Some Basic Concepts in Primal Religion." Johnson County Community College, n.d. Web. 10 Nov 2010.
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