@Leadfoot,
The materialist clinging to the experience as reality is the wrong ouroborus. This serpent has not dissolved the other, and therefore no life can come from it. The two need to BECOME one, not just ignore the existence of the other. It is just killing itself to live, and eventually runs out of life to heal its wounds.
In Buddhism, the four Great Elements (Pali: cattāro mahābhūtāni) are earth, water, fire and air. Mahābhūta is generally synonymous with catudhātu, which is Pāli for the "Four Elements."
Alchemy addresses these four elements, as does witchcraft. Our own science of physics used to rest on these, but when forcing a materialist worldview, it just cannot hold up. Something made those four elements.
Funny, I find an answer in the very first few lines of Genesis 1:1-10 KJV
God (Fire) spoke (air) over the Waters (spirits) and the Earth (manifestation) came as a result.
All four elements, so many religions.... Yet ONE claims Legality. I’m not here to start a “religious war”, so do not mistake my point. I’m simply saying that all religions that are focused on a materialist mindset are trapping the minds, into a hive-mind, that then forces upon the others, and thus stealing their life, to stay alive.
What this says, from any angle whatsoever, is that we are spiritual creatures, who get stuck being focused on the outward manifestations, rather than the spirits we give life to.