If the outside corresponded to the inner life in people, we wouldn't have "bodies" as we do. The inner life is too complex, too various, too fluid. Our bodies incarnate only a fraction of our inner lives. (The legitimate basis for the paranoid endless anxiety about what's "behind" the appearances.) Given that they would still have inner lives of the energy + complexity that they Have now, the bodies of people would have to be more like gas, something gaseous yet tangible-looking like clouds. Then our bodies could metamorphose rapidly, expand, contract- a part could break off, we could fragment, fuse, collide, accumulate, vanish, rematerialize, swell up, thin out, thicken, etc. etc. As it Is we're stuck with a soft but still largely determinate (especially determinate with regard to size + dimension + shape) material presence in the world- almost wholly inadequate to these processes which then become "inner" processes (ie, far from wholly manifested, needing to be discovered, inferred, capable  of being hidden, etc.) Our bodies become vessels, then masks.  Since we can’t expand or contract (our bodies) we stiffen them a lot. Of course, maybe we wouldn't have so much subjectivity if the "Outer" were better designed to register the interior life. Maybe subjectivity as we experience it (all the pressure, the force, the energy, the passion of it) is precisely the result of this " confinement" inside our being. (Like the pressure build up when a gas is heated up inside a sealed metal container.) (Is this the purpose of the disparity- the good of it? But that's too Panglossian a thought.) Of course, it is. That's what all the sages have known + When the demand for reconciliation of "inner" and "outer," they always posit a subjectivity which seems (compared with what we have at its best) radically depleted, bland, monotonous, empty. Plato, the Gnostic vision, Hesse's bead game community, etc. That's why the angels have no bodies (or they have "angelic" bodies) not, mainly out of (Christian-)neurotic aversion to the flesh. Experiencing the sacred is the opposite of being alienated. It is being integrated. Always implies a relationship to others.  [[freedom to, not just freedom from]] [[pina bausch]] [[redesigning, reimagining self]] [[The more we need the more we receive]]