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It's long term, indeed. That's why I was surprised by a comment here claiming that the philosophy on abortion is conservative. A lot of people may as well read it and see it as a free pass, something like: "there's no hell, there's no devil, and I get to choose how I pay for it in the next life...

Do you know - or have a guess on - why the scribe bothered naming rivers and describing their courses as well as naming mountains?

I meant something along those lines. It was about making it easier for people to memorize information.

Maybe he put things in a way I would be able to remember. The terminology probably isn't correct or accurate, but just enough so that people who actually know what he was talking about could figure it out.

I guess there's a point where it all comes down to faith and believing we're doing the right thing. Sometimes we do things because we think they're right, sometimes we don't know why we do them. Free will may be about trying our best to do the right thing while knowing we have the option go down...

That's the point where I leave the subject to specialists. I'm retransmitting a message from around 20 years ago on a subject I know nothing about - frankly, I don't know what I described or if I described it as I should. I'm actually surprised I've been able to come this far in this...

You do understand. I like how you put it.

He did kinda outline how it works.

I guess that's the point. Science and history are definitely secondary to the text, but it doesn't mean they're totally absent, even if they're just unintended "side effects". Thanks for your kind clarifications.

Thanks for your clarification and elaboration. They helped me understand what you were questioning. The highlighted paragraph is about how time is perceived differently depending on where we are in the corporeal plane. It introduces the idea that if different perceptions of time happen in the...

It's just occurred to me that Shipwright did mention photons in one of his lectures. Maybe the soul is a photon or photon-like particle.

As special as he was/is, Jesus was in the corporeal plane then. He had a greater control of his body and a greater integration of the halves of his soul than any other human in known history, but still was influenced by the body's energy (the flesh, if you will). I don't mean to discredit the...

I like this. Do you think it's possible that the scribe wasn't fully aware of the whole meaning (or multiple purposes or layers) of everything he/she was writing by inspiration?

Thanks for the brilliant input, @RJM Corbet. Maybe time and space have different properties in another dimension. Is that incompatible with present science? I was referring to the time and space concepts that we are familiar with in the corporeal plane. I read some weeks or months ago that...

Welcome, @Paulus ! I'm glad it was useful. Reading The Spirits's Book has been in my to-do list for decades, even though I did read portions of it. I didn't see a Spiritist forum around here (okay, maybe I didn't look for it the right way), which surprises me. It's such a well-established...

I believe so. Time and space may be different concepts and behave differently in a different dimension. Maybe thought is a quality of self-aware beings, and non-self-aware beings act by instinct.

You can't remove a phrase from a paragraph and ask a question ignoring the sentences that come next. Removal of context distorts ideas. The text is meant to be read as a whole.

Thanks for the information. I'll read more about Advaita. I do agree that religions and the concept of prophets belong in the corporeal plane. They serve some purposes (not necessarily all of them good) but eventually may be abandoned.

I appreciate a philosophical line of questioning like this one. I believe time and space belong to the corporeal plane. We can't function without them as incarnated humans, and space is a big part of the corporeal plane. Physicists dispute the notion of time in some theories, so to speak. The...

It's interesting that you find it conservative to say that a fetus is not a living person. I probably can't say that in front of my Evangelical, Republican brother if I want to keep the peace between us. I'm not here to try to convince anyone (I hate it when certain religious people do that)...