The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies
…ars uncanny resemblance to the heavenly realm of eternally youthful bodies Augustine imagined centuries ago (Augustine believed that bodies in heaven would be resurrected at the “perfect age” of 33—i.e., the age of Christ). You might say that Chopra’s fantasy of ageless physiques secularizes/updates Christianity’s immortality myth of resurrected bodies incorruptibly frozen in their “prime” by incorporating the modern belief that individuals are th…
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