Spiritual reality
Hello, I've been thinking about some points lately about material and spiritual reality, and I wanted to ask if what I'm saying is true in your opinion. I've talked about it with a few people who more or less agreed with me, but I wanted to ask you because I appreciate your analysis and accuracy.
A. Sensory disabilities – The first point is the understanding that our absorption of reality is limited. Our perception of reality is done through the senses. Man also has a mind, but the mind is based on information presented to him by the senses. In any case, all the reality that man paints outside of himself is only a material-sensory reality.
A blind person cannot see. Reality appears to him only on the basis of the other four senses. If all people were blind, they would never be able to paint the appearance of reality.
In any case, it is easy to understand that there are other aspects of reality that humans cannot perceive. Just as the blind cannot perceive the appearance of material objects, so too we cannot perceive other aspects that are not perceived by one of the five senses.
We will note that just as the appearance is not of a different object from the same object that we perceive through the sense of touch, for example, but is a reflection of the same object, so there is no reason to say that in those very objects that we perceive with the five senses there are no additional aspects that we do not perceive. That is, in those objects whose material side we perceive, there may be additional aspects. [Although it is also possible to understand that there will be separate objects that cannot be perceived in a material way, and it is possible to perceive them from other aspects].
on. Man – There is one immaterial being that we do manage to encounter – the human spirit. Man's personality is an immaterial being. Man encounters and becomes aware of himself not through the senses, but in an indirect way. Therefore, through man's encounter with himself, it has been proven that not only is there no difficulty in understanding that there is indeed a reality that is not perceived through the senses, but that this is indeed so.
Another important point is that although a person becomes aware of his spiritual reality through his consciousness in an immediate way, his spiritual reality is not the same as his consciousness, but rather through consciousness he encounters a part of his spiritual essence. Besides the fact that it is clear to a person that his spiritual reality includes many parts of which he is not at all aware, it is also clear that when a person is sleeping, for example, or in other states in which the person is unaware, he still exists.
third. The connection between matter and spirit – After we have come to know from observing the reality of human life that there is an immaterial, spiritual reality that cannot be perceived through the senses, we must observe the relationship between that immaterial reality and matter. In other words, what is the relationship between the body and the spirit.
I will not go into trying to understand the wonder of this relationship, but for the sake of this matter I will proceed from the simple intuition that it exists. There is a two-way connection between matter and spirit, such that material and physical events affect a person's spirit, and a person's spirit in turn affects his body.
D. Materialistic view of man – We will emphasize that even though according to our words there is a connection between the spiritual side of man and the human body, it was possible to analyze the physical behavior of man while ignoring the spiritual side of him. Of course, this view would miss part of the causal chain, and is probably also prone to errors (also ignoring the fact that there is free will).
the. Additional spiritual beings – We encounter only 'one' spiritual being, ourselves. The question is whether it makes sense to assume that, just as there is a human spiritual being, there are additional spiritual beings. Of course, 'we did not see' is not evidence, since, as we will explain, we perceive reality through the senses, and these only perceive material aspects, and likewise, the fact that we manage to explain reality even without assuming the existence of a spiritual being contradicts the fact that such a being could exist, and that it even has an influence on matter.
Regarding other people, we unwittingly project ourselves onto them, and assume that they too are not just a body, but are composed of a physical and a spiritual side. The explanation for this is that we encounter this in ourselves. Likewise, in animals, for example, most people assume that there is a certain spiritual reality, and that an animal is not merely a physical being. The question is whether there is a rational reason to assume that indeed in people and animals there is a spiritual reality that is connected to their physical reality, or whether this principle is true in reality as a whole. From ourselves we learn about all of humanity, and most people also learn about more developed animals, and why stop there? Is there a reason to assume that in less developed animals like bacteria there is no such reality? And why stop where there is biological life, and hang the spiritual being on a biological physical reality? And why stop with plants and not continue to remain still?
Of course, everything we say about a spiritual reality that is related to material realities does not mean that it is present 'in them', since it is a material reality that does not exist in space. Rather, the intention was only to say that it has a relationship of (mutual) influence with them. Of course, there is no problem in saying that there are spiritual entities that are not related to and influence material entities.
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