The Potentiator of the Body

[JustLikeYou]

I think You sometimes assign Mind's functions to the Body (as overestimating It – an opposite tendency to mine, btw

You're probably right. In many ways, I'm groping in the dark concerning archetypes. Some things I accept more firmly than others, and I use these as the foundation upon which I judge whether I've accurately described an archetype or not. In the case of the distinction between mind and body, the firmest foundation I have is that the mind interprets and imagines while the body measures and acts. The two, however, are in constant communication. I wrote a section on this in the article called "The Importance of the Story." The upshot of this section is that the Stories we mentally adopt (by moving through the mind archetype cycles) provide tools to the body to aid in its measurement. These tools are a concept-laden vocabulary with which to construct methods of measurement. Thus, we would never have invented an electron microscope if we did not already have a concept of an electron and how it might used in observation.

Using the example you object to, namely observation of a pattern in a fictional story, the tools at the body's disposal are the use of language and the ability to connect complex groups of words together into a coherent story. The body, however, can piggyback on the mind's ability to interpret written word to observe this story as a form of raw data, just like we can program algorithms in a computer to recognize the same patterns. Like the computer, the body cannot extend itself beyond bare pattern-recognition. Interpretation of the significance of these patterns is the distinct province of mind.

Having said this, I am always looking for new and clearer ways to distinguish mind from both body and spirit. Your help on this front is very much appreciated.