The Human Spirit

Assuming that all the physical world is energy at varying vibration rates it is easy to predict that there exists a vibration energy pattern that remains when the physically known biological existence ceases. The body dies the soul endures. It is my belief that the human body is the incubator for this energy pattern that is nurtured by your thought processes. The more you exercise your mind and emotions the more intense the pattern becomes. This energy pattern is the enduring spirit that remains when the biological body's death occurs. It has very little to do with righteousness and sin or heaven and Hades. A weak or deformed body could produce a more intense energy pattern than a robust or beautiful body. Nor is the spirit about intellectual capacity as defined by IQ or academic pursuits. It appears to me to be more about understanding emotional wisdom than anything else. Empathy and compassion seem to be the factors that nurtures the spirit. I find that solutions in life like in mathematics can best be found by looking for the lowest common denominator. The lowest common denominator of the Universe is energy; all the perceived physical world is energy at different rates of vibration.



The Universe is neutral but religion can be evil.

When religion attempts to interfere with the right of free choice it has become evil. Religion takes the path of evil when it tries to stop change which is usually part of progress of human civilization. The Universe's pattern is change; that is evolution is the natural way most especially palingenesis (renewing). R.M. Bucke theorized that human conscience's itself is evolving. I suspect that Jung may also had a grasp of this progression pattern. Society is progressing because human consciousness is evolving. Unfortunately most organized religions become archaistic; locked into their orthodoxy they can not grasp the essence of the idea that change is part of the Universal plan therefore they cling to much to the past instead of embracing the future as change requires. Of course not all change is necessarily good but embracing the concept of change means that bad changes will also be changed for a better choice in the long run; the philosophy that if life deals you a lemon make lemonade. As Nietzsche observed "Truth is not something present all along that needs merely to be discovered and disclosed; it has to be created. ... that in itself is never final: not a process of becoming aware of something .... fixed and determinate but of conferring and actively deciding."

It is interesting to contrast the views of Kierkegaard who felt that the greatest gift bestowed on man was the freedom to choose God and that in rejecting God "freedom of choice will become your 'idee fixe', till at last you will be like the rich man who imagines he is poor, and will die of want" with Sartre's observation that he found it "extremely embarrassing that God does not exist; for there disappeared with Him all possibility of finding values. ... We are left alone, without excuse. That is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free." I find it intriguing that in Sartre's rejection of a God concept he bemoans the loss of someone to blame rather than the loss of a companion with whom you can celebrate the richness of the universe.

I suppose that I view God more as Schopenhauer's conic mirror that makes sense of the distorted images.
"However, if we now consider the mighty influence and immense power of outer circumstance, our explanation in terms of inner character will seem hardly strong enough. Furthermore, that the weightiest thing in the world--which is to say, the life course of the individual, won at the cost of so much effort, torment and pain--should receive its outer complement and aspect wholly from the hand of blind Chance--Chance without significance or regulation--is scarcely believable. Rather, one is moved to believe that--just as in the case of those pictures called anamorphoses, which to the naked eye are only broken fragmentary deformities but when reflected in a conic mirror show normal human forms--so the purely empirical interpretations of the course of the world resembles the seeing of those pictures with naked eyes, while the recognition of the intention of Fate resembles the reflection in the conic mirror, which binds together and organizes the disjointed fragments."
I suspect that some individuals are born with better conic mirrors than the rest of humanity.


Karmic Consequences
I believe that the law of Karmic consequences is a philosophical version of the scientific principle that for every action there is a reaction. Actions a person takes will have an intended and unintended reaction in other people. I conclude that karmic consequence may go beyond this into the realm of the impact of the emotional energy of the reaction; therefore I differ from those who espouse the concept of accepting bad acts as only a life lesson because I feel that for karmic consequence to flow people must embrace the emotional reaction to an act, experience the pain plus the rage and then let it go so it can flow back to the perpetrator resulting in your healing and karmic consequence to the one who hurt you. If you cling to the pain you remain a victim in that state that Caroline Myss defines as "woundology" so the emotional energy you should have released that would have had karmic consequences to the "wounder" stay bottled up in you and karmic consequence does not happen.

I view the purpose of life to be to experience every moment to the fullest to mature the soul. I can not accept the idea that to spend one's life sitting under a tree contemplating the cosmos while ignoring the life events going on around you is the highest purpose of being. Interacting with the life events around you seems to me to be living life to the fullest thereby nurturing the spirit.