Reply To: What is God?

[Kyrani Eade]

Kyrani wrote: My understanding is that the soul is non-physical and inconceivable intellectually, other than to say its primary quality is consciousness

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote: Then how do you know it exists?

I will try to explain this, from my own experiences of enlightenment where there is a shift in identification.

“Normally” we have a sense of personal self, an experiencer. This personal self, arises where there is an identification with the activities of Mind (ideas) AND the subsequent bodily reactivity. This is often called “body-mind” in Buddhism. So there is a perception of a personal self as an experiencer having subjective experiences.

In an enlightenment experience (we might call a spiritual awakening), the sense of personal self is extinguished and the identification rests with conscious being or consciousness in its most obvious aspect.

In the enlightenment experience there is no identification with the ideas in neither mind nor the associated bodily reactivity. One identifies as something apart from the body-mind. This means that the identification is beyond or outside of this reality.

This reality is a Creation (in religious terms) or a simulation/ hologram (in scientific terms). It is essentially made of information, consciously upheld in the One Mind by the Supreme Being or you might better like the term Universal Observer, which has been used by some physicists. (note I believe there are no personal /human minds. It only appears that way because we, as conscious beings can call forth, perceive and thus use information /ideas from the One Mind. )

When we reach a station, where we are no longer identifying with the ideas in the Mind, then we can see beyond this reality, transcend this reality. We can glimpse the Ultimate Reality.