There are, as one would expect, all sorts of reasons why we abandon our bodies, and why we now fear to reclaim them. . . . On a superficial level, we refuse to reclaim the body because we just don't think there's any reason to — it seems a big to-do about nothing. On a deeper level, we fear to reclaim the body because it houses, in a particularly vivid and living form, strong emotions and feelings which are socially taboo. And, ultimately, the body is avoided because it is the abode of death.

—Ken Wilber

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