I'm still having difficulty accepting the idea of 'mirroring' because it implies that they are the same thing. They can be the same, but they also have the potential to be unrecognisably different. Not something usually associated with mirrors...
I also disagree with the distinction between inner and outer as a distinction between spiritual and physical, which further promotes the misrepresentation of the reality which they both reflect. To say that, despite there being no separation between the two, the spiritual inside contains all thoughts etc., implies that a physical approach to understanding thoughts is wrong, or at least inferior.
Simply put, to say that one mirrors the other implies that one or the other (or both) is real, instead of showing that both are incomplete, filtered views of something else.
That leads to the alternate, common analogy of filters. Spirituality, materialism, science, etc., all can be thought of as filters through which we could possibly see completely different views of the same thing. For example a spirituality filter may make one particular view completely translucent, while a materialism filter makes the same view completely opaque. Or vice-versa.
What do you think?
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