The Science of Spirit. Part 7
By: Seeker
I called this series of thoughts The Science of Spirit, yet so far I haven’t really gone into just what I mean with that title.
If we are ‘of the Spirit’ (whatever that means) then the implication is we are more than just a body, that what makes us who we are is something other than blood, cells, neurons and electric charges. There would seem to be two immediate views if this is so.
It’s possible the spirit’ side of us is totally unknowable to the physical side, that whatever it is comes from outside this existence and never partakes of it save by the connection we have with our bodies. If it doesn’t interact with physical laws, can’t be detected or tested, then it is outside of what we can know – at least while we use the filter of our physical experiences.
It’s also possible that we are here for precisely this reason – to come to know and understand our ‘self’ and how it functions, to find ways to describe what is otherwise simply an Awareness that gives us a point of view to which we refer when we say ‘I’ and that, at some point in our futures, we will find ways to interrogate our spirit side and discern how it relates to the Universe we see around us.
Of course there are those also who think that our Universe is all there is, and that everything, including who we are can be explained by coming to know, in ever greater detail, the rules and functions of the cosmos in which we live.
There are also those who think that all is spirit, that everything we see and experience is pure spirit and that the presence of Awareness is what makes it ‘real’ and physical.
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