From what I understand, combining my own spiritual experiences with what I have read about biofields from White Feather (see https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/we-are-broadcasters-35b357da93ad) and Rebecca Romanelli (see https://medium.com/illumination-curated/scientists-are-beginning-to-understand-the-tool-healers-have-been-using-throughout-the-ages-d53879e6d3e8), the mind exists outside of the body in our biofields and includes the portion of our souls that is incarnated within each of us and makes us human.
For more on the marriage of science and spirituality and philosophy as well, see my Ménage à Trois Between Science, Spirituality and Philosophy, They should have a permanent and mutually satisfying interdependent polyamorous relationship.
Prior life memories you say are coded in our genes and that is probably to an extent accurate (epigenetics perhaps) but there are many more prior life memories that are not coded but are retained by our souls and certain of those may be made available to us or may affect us through various mechanisms in a given lifetime. (See, e.g., my https://medium.com/illumination-curated/life-is-school-for-the-soul-9b081dbe8453 and my https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/i-am-avessel-with-17-042-previous-life-cycles-of-amassed-empathy-46df1b45261a)
Humans are a uniquely designed symbiotic species of highly evolved animals and souls. See White Feather's https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/simultaneous-selves-8eca7d61801d. This is also the story of creation in Genesis when one looks back at the original texts before certain words were mistranslated to man and woman. See Graham Pemberton’s https://medium.com/@graham-pemberton/what-do-the-first-three-chapters-of-genesis-really-mean-chapter-2-the-creation-of-eve-7aa72143925b and https://medium.com/@graham-pemberton/what-do-the-first-three-chapters-of-genesis-really-mean-chapter-2-further-thoughts-b6797482fd5c.
Simplifying the analysis, Adam and Eve do not represent the creation of man and woman but rather the creation of a species consisting of animal and soul. I had started to think along these lines a couple of years ago when I had the realization that the terms divine masculine and divine feminine actually refer to ego and soul (https://medium.com/new-earth-consciousness/my-reaction-to-two-recent-pieces-on-the-concepts-of-divine-feminine-and-divine-masculine-1f9b899faa17) which I later refined to animus and soul in my https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-human-spirit-duality-e456c0729e99 in which I explained my view that we are neither humans seeking spiritual experiences nor spirits seeking human experiences--we are simultaneously and inseparably both.
That's enough for now. I'll be tying this all together in a full essay soon about my lifelong relationship with my favorite book, Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund, which I first read in high school and will soon finish my 4th read.
Oh, I just remembered one thing. A few weeks or more ago I had copy pasted to you an article from the NYT about another side of the mind-body connection. It's become more and more accepted that much physical pain results from unresolved emotional trauma or even simple stress and psychologists and psychiatrists have started to try to resolve the physical pain through psychotherapy rather than painkillers. The article I sent you discussed a twist on that. Treating emotional trauma by mindfulness methods of getting the parts of the body affected to release the emotional trauma. Here's a gift link for all to that article. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/magazine/somatic-therapy.html?unlocked_article_code=8J3hQ50kZFj8MceKLJw8xw6r4dx1OVfCdqQD1Lbyx4Ad53SMAT4f6l8_VPmw2CbDtTFwqELDZEL8eZPbedtmqdj2rz2AU0xGRUQbOQXInmgco2ebOnCdR0o7IxNtmdGhFpHmr_am6TZ9jhzmlUMHahkeE1RQwqtolXdZ44fDv5jPuriT1Efw4bxZ6LwaXwMn8H4OjL1GDG4hL4D395b2i52BVtrUFNJ9Wlmptoi-sMZiU4JfJIa_-eXiHF5c3-bYwPCCM0Cg6STNvofW09W00x0MV05Q6Jv1UNAgVLS0jDoaDkfbnfJzuSi93OGgaNCDE8oXdGuGgkPhkg&smid=nytcore-android-share
