There is no reason you cannot, Dan. There are various schools of meditation and spiritual therapeutics of one or another sort which lead you in that direction, but with such things your mileage as always may vary.

There is no inherent reason why having a body should preclude ALSO having cosmic-scale spiritual experiences, but it seems to frequently do so, anyway. My belief is that for many people having a body involves adopting a lot of automaticities and abandoning a lot of creative responsibilities, and that's a slippery slope to walk back up; but there is no path other than walking back up in regardless of what techniques you use. The common denominators of all such paths that seem workable are re-assuming responsibility aned creative power over the apparencies of being that one has taken on as "the way it is", rather than letting them continue as external-determinants. One interesting recent book in this direction is called The Toltec Way although I have no reason to assume it is actually a Toltec legacy; but it is a nice name for the book, which discusses many aspects of this philosophical/spiritual approach.

'Course this could open the way for all kinds of supercilious corrective noises, but I guess I'll take the risk, and if worse comes to worse I will convert to petaphysics. That's a nice safe religion because the critics and pedants tend to stay out of range. :>)

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