In another 60 years or so, we won't be here physically, so if what is real is that which is eternal, our bodies are not real, not really us.
I don't understand exactly what the spirit is, but I know that the essence of us (spiritual energy) continues after our bodies die. Sometimes I've questioned experiences that substantiate this & the only alternative explanation is that our subconscious minds have psychic abilities to predict the future. Either way, it's spiritual & unexplainable scientifically.
Spirit is a strange translation, the original word was 'breath', which I think makes it quite a lot easier to understand. What is it that we bring in and exhaust when we breath? It is oxygen, in various forms - we bring in pure oxygen and put out carbon dioxide, which means carbon inside our bodies has bonded with two oxygen molecules, then trees split them back apart so we can use them again. What is oxygen? It is something necessary in a fire, this gives a hint, although you also need wood or coal or something similar. We too bring in this through our food, but both are merely energy in different aspects. All is energy, science agrees here, it is just the understanding differs because spirit is a subjective experience, and science looks at things objectively. These are the two poles which are most important to merge, for they are the basis for all separation. I often say God is love objectified, man is love subjectified, what remains when the opposites are no more? It is said Jesus is fully divine and fully man, in this is the reason for it.
As for psychic abilities, it is merely a sensing of what the energy has done or is doing, while predicting the future is naught but looking at where the energy is going. It is only that most people are not sensitive enough to the energies around them, otherwise all things are available. In religious experiences, it is possible to get an even clearer picture of the future, and even recall the past clearly, it is because past and future are opposites - in religious experiences all opposites are merged creating a central meeting point that includes everything, yet is itself void of definition. This is the universal heart - which actually just means center - indeed it is the heart of God.
Before there was light, it was dark.
If God created everything, then God created both "good" & "evil" possibilities... Opposites so joy could be appreciated.
This is how existence works, yes.
God is absolute, it will be useful to say he is absolute zero. Now, to manifest good (+1) and keep God's absoluteness, balance must be maintained, its opposite must also be brought in (-1). Now, the contrast allows us to recognize either, and already there is a certain enabling of experience.
Everything works this way, and thus God's absoluteness is maintained despite the plethora of possibilities we see all around us. This all also gives us a hint as to how to find God though: find out what is that point of zero. Now you discover all is truly one, that all things are contained in this, but describing it is impossible. This is the wonder of the mystic, that underlying all this diversity, everything is the same.
No, I don't think I could find God as the objective whole of all perspectives.
Yes, I could find my true self - peace & higher awareness, being in the moment.
It would be impossible, for all objects are merely your subjective perception. Everything, as I have already stated, is just the play of energies, nothing is actually physical at all, but the mind creates a certain picture that we might function within it.
You must find out who the perceiver is, you must look behind all thoughts and actions, everything you experience, and see from where the experience has arose. Everything you are aware of cannot be you, let this be the criteria. You can look at thoughts, emotions, actions, you can see the whole body, even your internal body if your third eye is functional. Who is aware of all these things? You might say "I am", but even this has arisen in it, who is that one?
Accept no verbal answer, for the answer is only encounterable, it cannot be said.
