This concept holds in perpetuity - that enlightenment, while heralding the entry into a transcendent state, nonetheless represents only the start of a far longer experiential arc. Indeed, the tendency to confuse beginnings with endings is all too seductive - all too easy to lapse precipitously back into a static state, leaving our potentialities unrealized.

True awakening arrives, nay, precipitates only when the mind, freed entirely from self-generated perceptual constraints, stands unbound, indistinguishable from the fundamental essence that pre-exists them - a point, the great Ouspensky himself captured in his writings. Here, unity finds consummate expression.

Unfortunately, separation between body and mind all too easily continues - ensuring that fulfillment thereby eludes these pioneers - though they grasp the quintessence of what constitutes profound awakening.

In this way - and I do not hesitate to state this firmly - is manifested clearly what I perceive from my own research to be some tragic implications of failing to integrate all aspects of ourselves in achieving spiritual cohesion necessary for complete transcendence of our otherwise fragmented nature.

Failing such integration, a true symbiosis achieved between body and mind can bring to an abrupt unceremonious end what a moment ago was burgeoning spiritual development.

But, of course, some modern sages have said it all much more perceptively than I can and thus give testimony better and more meaningfully as to how best and properly to address this issue of body/mind unity than I ever could, who merely reports what they wrote thus many centuries ago:

"It is necessary to understand that only then can development be regarded as complete when all three parts - the body, the feelings and the thought - participate equally." -Gurdjieff

And he continued with no little insight:

"Development will inevitably be one-sided and, sooner or later, will inevitably come to a stop. Indeed, at first glance it might seem advisable, if development is incomplete, to devote oneself to the cultivation of just that aspect which is weakest."

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