Existential Shame

He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."

—Genesis 3:10

The only place where modern man feels comfortable exposing himself is in a closed-off space, a bathroom, inside another closed-off space, a house.

We have dug so far into this existential trauma, this cognitive concealment, that it is now unheard of—illegal!—for a human being to bathe in plain sight.

What strange being goes through so much trouble when rain falls freely out in the open?

Such is the edifice of concepts, arguments, and convictions which the materialist mind has built around itself to cover up its self-awareness.

To keep from coming into contact with that uncomfortable question, that forbidden fact, that impossible "problem of perception"; the "problem of consciousness"; the ubiquitous specter of its own existence.