Why 'Dream' though? God doesn't sleep, Gos doesn't exists in states, that belongs to us, are you sure you're not projecting?
And in a sense, we all do, but still I don't get 'dream'?
God acts because that's what God is, it's not something that He does. I rather like the Multiple States of Being of Hindu theology, but why any one state is a dream for God (and our one must be a nightmare, or at the very least a test of patience, LOL) I don't get.
Matter is as real to God as anything else He brings into being – its we who determine values.
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I disagree. again, I think you're perhaps over-anthropomorphising?
There is no substantial similarity between spirit and matter, and energy is just matter in a very diffuse state, or matter is energy in a 'solid' state – either way, energy and matter are the same stuff and belong in the phenomenal world.
There are many senses and meanings of spirit, but we should not fall into the error of conflating two things which rightly belong in different spheres – draw analogies, yes, but that does not mean 'sameness'.
Which came first – Mind, or Being? Spirit or Matter? act or Potency?
But whichever – there are no such distinctions in God.
Wholeness and God may be one and the same “things.” As a complex object like a human becomes more whole (which we associate with a harmonization/integration of that object’s inner parts, intrapersonal wholeness) , he/she becomes more of an open system to objects and beings outside self. This would be interpersonal wholeness.
This highly interactive state, most likely highly related to Agape love, is at least energy-like, or, as you say, a different state of matter (like a burning bush that does not burn out?), in that it is highly interactive, translocated (no longer simply in one place), more flexible, etc.
I think this “soulless” is one step closer to the perfect order that one could consider as being the Source of the wholeness/soulness.
Low integration levels of stable objects could be thought of as more matter-like. The parts are more or less glued together without dancing together.
From a philosophical Idealism point of view (which very well could be an anthropomorphic-like project of the thing that thinks, my individual mind. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it is a MERE projection of a particular reality. It could be an expression in the image of Mind behind, within, a mind.), energy/subtle body and matter/gross body are different states of Mind/causal body. Viewing it in the opposite direction from the notion that energy is a varied state of matter.
Reflecting my Logos lean.
If one thinks like matter, one may also be projecting one’s own identity with matter. To me, that seems to be a limiting self-fulfilling prophecy. I am not saying that spirit is a run of the mill type of energy, but that it could be an especially pure (subtle) form of it that rests near Mind’s door. “Knock, knock, knockin on (Mind’s) door.” (Bob Dylan) . Perhaps it is more beneficial to think of direction than of delineation. As we become more like the Whole One, we seem to become more openly interactive, like an energy flow, such as a fire spread.
Thanks again for your stimulating thoughts.
Love,
Darrell