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This may help. Wrote a couple of days later after concept clearer in my mind (not necessarily in anyone else’s though!): Getting Back in the Game If we decide that we do, in fact, have a spirit, the next step is getting to know it. Knowing it means more than just recognizing it. It means we...

Good point. We can through that process

We CAN do beingness, which is what I mean by “being” , in terms of my being, relating and doing skills discussion. But we can’t do being as in creating them. We can nurture being but not create beings

Individual spirit as God’s Individualized Education (or Treatment) Plan is an interesting and somewhat promising (potentially useful) way to look at it. Got to thinking (actually, hardly ever stop!), God can do being, while humans can only do actions. We can throw a baseball. God can manifest a...

Maybe you and I are meeting somewhere midway between some of our previous arguments? I recently acknowledged that I believe that God and the God/Spirit realm is of a different dimension, but then proposed an individual spirit and a soul as portals allowing continuity between the other side and...

Meaning that you also have an appetite (as I) for exploring mystical experiences and/or explorations other than standard prayer and loving others? Is that what “mystagogy” means. I haven’t seen that word before.

I love the way you said this. It rings so true to me. Whether it is a deep part of mind or something beyond mind, something in us seems able to explore this “divine darkness” from which splotches of indigo light emerge (referring to my meditation experience). We CAN explore. And I love it. And I...

The main way I am doing it is creating a mindset of looking forward to my “night school” sessions as I sleep/dream. I take advantage of a naturally “thin veil” situation. It seems to be a specific form of lucid dreaming in which I try to encounter a character or characters representing my spirit...

Thomas, In the fourth paragraph of this excerpt I do qualify what I mean by “owning”— something to the effect that a guardian spirit is so consistently gifted to us that on this side at least it is ours, not someone else’s. Of course Darrell often ignores the spirit assigned to him, it such a...

Sorry to jump in on a question you asked someone else, but I view “saved” as meaning taking the smoother and shorter road instead of the rougher and longer road “home.” If we can manage to be at peace as we transition in the death process then we will be saved from a rough long road, whether the...

One of my “Night School” dreams last night cued up that line of thinking regarding the difference between mind and its content. I now understand that there was quite a bit of lucidity in the dream. A beloved pet (regular earthly me? Embodied me?) morphed from a horse to a ferret to something...

We have to get some things straight and stop bad mouthing “mind”. A mind IS a terrible thing to waste. Number one point I’d like to make is that mind is NOT its thoughts. We seem to be mistaking the mind as the sum of its thoughts, when it really is a whole greater than the sum of its parts...

I like Depok Chopra’s view of God as Pure Potential. Also like Paul Tillich’s Ground of Being. Together, I sense a FUNCTION worth utilizing, a “God” worth worshipping.

The fact that “God” came out of our minds means it has some sort of truth, perhaps a metaphorical expression of a mental/spiritual FUNCTION? Even if it is not “true” in any objective sense. Even Santa Clause is a meaningful metaphor of the spirit of giving. The Easter Bunny is about the...

That statement seems to rely on either/or logic when a both/and logic could conclude that mental identification of God, etc., is both imaginary (a mere version of the truth) AND true (containing the essence of a truth, such as a God Function). In the animated movie, The Little Mermaid, the crab...