| It hinges on the difference between believing / not believing and whether or not observable evidence exists to support a particular argument. |
Hi Furry. I understand where you’re coming from, but I don’t think you’ve grasped the point I’ve been trying to make. I’ll try and clear a few things up, starting with larger aspects of reality and digging down to details.
Firstly, science has revealed that energy cannot be annihilated or newly created. It can only change form. Therefore, ‘Something’ must have existed for ever. It has no beginning and no end. (This is what I refer to as “the Infinite Existence.”) Naturally, “the Infinite” transcends our finite minds, and also transcends science. But what is its ultimate nature? In other words, is everything that exists made purely of materialistic stuff that can be weighed or measured by traditional scientific methods?
As a human example, consider a mother’s love for her child. Is there such thing as “spiritual wealth”? Do you believe in love? If not, then that’s your prerogative. But it might be wise to keep an open mind. Consciousness itself eludes scientific weighing and measuring. (Consciousness, or “spirit”, is the intrinsic ‘is-ness’ of your self-awareness, which experiences life, and which at this moment is reading this blog.)
Imagine living in the time when our scientists believed that the world was flat. This belief was simply due to a limited perspective. (In this case, it was a perspective in the physical sense, as opposed to the psychic sense.) Now imagine a spaceman from another planet landing on earth, and telling us that the world was round. We probably wouldn’t believe him. An open minded person might conclude, “I’ll believe that the world is round when observable evidence exists to support the claim”.
This would be a wise conclusion for the person to make. But my point is that in terms of spiritual awareness, a person with a small degree of psychic awareness is like the human who believed the world was flat. His perspective, in the psychic sense, was limited. A person with a large degree of psychic awareness, however, is like the enlightened spaceman, who had a greater perspective of reality.
Spiritually speaking, the evolution is this: Ignorance, faith, intuition, knowledge. Those whose consciousness has blossomed to deeper degrees of intuition and knowledge don’t need “proof” of their convictions or beliefs. Instead, their heart speaks a different language to the hardened scientific minded. (There is indeed a difference between the cleverness of the head and the wisdom of the heart.)
The wisdom of the ages teaches that “God is Spirit”, and that all is not death and finality. From my point of view, people who are psychically attuned are aware of deeper levels of reality that are equally as real as inanimate matter. These levels of reality are detectable and measurable, but not in the same sense as traditional scientific methods. (We’re all psychic, by the way. It’s just a question of by how much. For example, we can often tell whether a person is loving, warm and open, or whether they’re cold, closed and hostile – regardless of external behaviour. ‘Sensing an atmosphere’ is a basic form of psychic intuition. So is sensing a mother's love, or spiritual wealth.)
People with a strong faith in God or a higher force, possess a degree of psychic intuition. The less psychically attuned our consciousness, the smaller our perspective of reality, and the less we can comprehend deeper levels of reality.
Whatever our views about such issues, they are necessarily subjective, because we’re all catching brief glimpses of the Infinite Reality through the small windows of our consciousness. How deeply our consciousness might have blossomed is another question. Have you ever read about the Buddhist sutra of the Lotus Flower? It’s profound indeed.
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