billw
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After 19 years of pondering these things, I have a strong inclination to believe that the answers have been there for a very, very, long time. Psychic phenomena, astral bodies, mental bodies, the "soul", laws of rebirth, miracles, mortality, the eternal, consciousness, etc., are all covered here:I think this leads to other questions - why do we need to grow up? Why weren't we created to be at the mature state, whatever that is?
And it seems at least some of our negative behavior comes from our evolutionary heritage? So if we're supposed to mature why did we first evolve from an environment that is "red in tooth & claw"?
Perhaps most disconcerting is that why aren't we being guided as to how to grow up or why this is important? Why do we instead live in an environment that seems designed to orient us to a materialist or at least limited panpsychic worldview? (Of course there are hints, like that in the weirdness of QM, that suggest there's more.)
My go-to example is what if inside our skulls there was a little ball of light rather than extensive brain matter. Wouldn't that at least be a strong reminder that we are Yoda's "luminous beings" rather than "crude matter"? On the other hand, perhaps this would've ensured the old religions of the world stayed dominant, that as a species we couldn't take on some potentially necessary skepticism....which then leads to the question of why this skepticism might even be necessary....
What, exactly, is out there in the spiritual worlds (if they exist) that we need to wary of?
http://www.summum.us/philosophy/patanjali/johnston/
Cheers,
Bill