In what way we are always grounded

The mind resents belonging to the body. It resists dependency, believes itself to be autonomous, superior, yet it may only be subordinate. We grope into ideas about what is called spirtuality, we imagine the body is temporary in a way We are not, we convince ourselves of the divinity of thought and the divinity of being beyond the body. What is holier than a spirit without physicality? What is pure is what does not engage the body of itself, the body of others, or serve any physical need. The rejection of our violent nature results in the ordering and object-making on the one hand, and in the fetishizing of the spirit without the body on the other. What better escape from the slavery to a constantly failing, aging, demanding being than the escape into the mind? The intellect believes itself to be the mind, self-consciousness believes itself to be necessary to the intellect, so on and so on. All consciousness is at the mercy of the function of the physical self - the body creates the mind. The body creates process, connection, and all thought. The body creates the mind. It's the soul that's created by the mind that may eventually assent to the divinity, necessity, elemental tie to (the only expression of) existence of the body. We must make such wide circles to find our feet.