LH, I have to agree with a lot of what you state. To me, God is transcendent. I could swap a few definitions with you and know we'd be talking about the same thing. He is wholly other than our observable universe but the inner universe! Ah! Trnascendent in that He touches this world in a different way than psyicallity, with a different type of knowing than what the sensory imput can confirm.

But! The body apparatus is necessary and can serve as an intermediary between the cosmos and the sensory experience. That is, if we seek. I have learned through years of prolonged periods of unrelenting pain that, body does indeed affect perception and in some cases overwhelm. That's stuff for an extended discussion, not here. In one sense, through the human mind we are the means of the universe to behold itself.