Pass it on
There is information in the way you carry yourself into a room. Before you have thought anything consciously, your body has already registered what is wrong. To dismiss this is not intellectual rigor; it is selective blindness.
You have had the experience: you meet someone, and something feels off. You cannot articulate why. Their handshake was fine. Their smile was in the right place. Their words were appropriate. But your body knows something your mind has not yet processed; a micro-expression too fast to consciously register, a tension in the shoulders that does not match the smile, a rhythm of breathing that does not align with the calm words being spoken. You ignore it because you cannot justify it. And later, sometimes much later, you discover that your body was right.
The modern bias against embodied knowledge is a strange inheritance from Enlightenment rationalism, which treated the body as a meat machine carrying around the only part that mattered; the mind. But this is not how humans actually work. The body is not a vehicle for consciousness. It is part of consciousness. The gut has its own neural network, sometimes called the second brain. The vagus nerve carries information from the organs to the brain far more than the reverse. You are not a mind inhabiting a body. You are a body that thinks. The distinction matters.
To dismiss what the body knows because it cannot immediately articulate its reasons is not intellectual rigor. It is the refusal to accept that some of the most important information arrives through channels reason did not build and cannot fully audit.
The Christian tradition has always known this. The Word became flesh; not a concept, not a philosophy, not a disembodied truth floating above the material world. Flesh. The incarnation is the ultimate validation of embodied knowledge. If God thought the body was an adequate medium for His own presence, we should probably stop treating it as an unreliable narrator.