TRANSFORMATION AND THE WAKING BODY: A RETURN TO TRUTH VIA OUR BODIES with Fraser Watts, "Mutual Enhancement between Science and Religion: In the Footsteps of the Epiphany Philosophers"; William H. Beharrell, "Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via our Bodies"; Marius Dorobantu and Yorick Wilks, "Moral Orthoses: A New Approach to Human and Machine Ethics"; Galen Watts, "Religion, Science, and Disenchantment in Late Modernity"; and Rowan Williams, "Epiphany Philosophers: Afterword."

This article considers the kind of knowledge that is constituted through embodied sensory perception and makes the case for a form of knowledge that is embodied, relational, and potentially transformational. Such knowledge is encountered through our physiological senses and cultivated by reestablishing connections to our bodies. The discussion starts by exploring the literature on sensory perception and interoception and moves on to the role of human agency, which is implicit in the idea of top-down causation. It is argued that this process can be explained by a top-down predictive model within which a sense of greater interoceptive accuracy may be cultivated while reducing interoceptive perturbation. The roles of active and perceptual inference are discussed with regard to the regulatory opportunities that these types of attention yield. By being more interoceptively aware, through a practice of contemplation, it is argued, we open ourselves to an encounter with divine presence that is immanent in the world around us.