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Monday 30 May 2011

The Mystery of Spirit

Will the world of science and scientific method ever understand and describe spirit? The ultimate spirit is God and the 'sevenfold spirit' which comes from Him. Is The Spirit of God only ever to be known to those who believe? Even scientists who believe must surely be frustrated by not being able to describe the Spirit of God to scientists who do not believe. One outcome of work of the Spirit of God is the existence of believers, yet it seems to me that they cannot expect to be able to explain their own existence as believers or the work which resulting in their faith to unbelievers, no matter how well educated those unbelievers. This is a both mental torment and a delight. It gets a little easier to bear it when scientists find evidence of what I would like to call 'spirit', such as when their experiments reveal the reality of phenomena like precognition. This allows educated, intelligent, reasoning thinkers to ask questions like: Does everyone have 'spirit' and 'soul' as well as 'body and 'mind'? Can 'spirit' exist outside of body and mind? Can inanimate entities have 'spirit'? Does 'spirit' link points in the space (and time perhaps) not linked by physical forces or entities such as photons and subatomic particles? Can 'spirit' allow an affect to take place across time and space without the need for such particles or physical forces (or string theory entities, whatever they might be)? Does this mean the future can affect the present? Can the future be known? Some eminent scientists like to rubbish such questions but the questions remain and the surely answers will be one day fully known.