Descartes Reflection Paper

Descartes, I have been reading your works for days regarding your philosophies and have come up with a decent amount of questions in regard to your theories. The first of many is, you have three different principles in regards to the mind and body. Body, being the first and mind being the second, but the third is the two together. You state in your meditations that the body is material or made or matter and the mind is immaterial or something one cannot grasp. My question in regard to this is how do they interact with each other or, maybe to give direction, do you think the mind body interaction is like a duality in the sense that in tandem makes your third theory of the mind body interaction. Would you say, since you believe that God does exist, that in His teachings he states as above so below and that he may mean this in respect to your thoughts on the mind and body?

Also, since you see the mind as immaterial or as indivisible, do you think that the mind can exist on it’s own or does it need a vessel in which to thrive? Or by mind do you think of it as something deeper, such as consciousness? I think if we perceived the mind as more of consciousness rather than a material thing that the body, for lack of a better way of putting this, creates then I could further understand your point where consciousness can thrive without the host of the body. But if you believe that the soul resides in part of the body you are them making it a material thing in which it can ultimately be divided. To follow suit on the consciousness proposition, if God were to create us in his image maybe we have the physical perception wrong for that was created through the development of our planet on the live within it and that maybe you may have misinterpreted the idea of his image of being all knowing and vastly expanding infinitely? And if that were the true case then could we then think that he gave us all the information we needed to solve some of the questions that arose