2007-04-06 15:53:01 · 12 answers · asked by voodooelectric 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question. Logically, I think our brains just record and process all events in different ways. We are the sum total of our experiences. Yet, once in a while, something mysterious and unexplainable happens. And that's what keeps us believing.
2007-04-06 16:11:30 · answer #1 · answered by Carol B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the great 'guru', and self-professed 'charlatan', Georgi I. Gurdjieff we humans are 'Three-Brained Beings'. This triple thinking centre comprises the actual brain, the medulla oblongata or brain stem, and finally the heart.
Some may find the 'heart' included as a component of brain difficult to understand. But if you study a medical text you will find that the heart area of the thorax does, indeed, have one of the highest concentrations of nerve cells. It is the area with which we 'feel'. That is why we talk of 'matters of the heart', and 'heart-ache', these are not just sayings, but 'truths' which have, almost accidentally, popped into language.
The above three elements are, of course, physical structures, organs, all of which die and decay once the 'animus' has left the body, like Elvis leaving the building. Is that it ?
Some say yes, and some, like me, say no. Have you ever looked a recently deceased person ? For me there is simply no comparison with the living being, a dead body is just that, a lump of meat. Why ? Because the spark of life has gone.
It really doesn't matter what we call it, spirit, soul, spark, animus, God-particle, what it is is pure energy, life itself.
We are energetic beings living in an energetic Omniverse, and there is vastly more to us than meets the eye, here, in this dense place, we think that physicality is all.
It isn't, and we are much more than our bodies.
My take, known, not just believed. :-)
2007-04-06 16:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe we have a spirit also. I'm not quite sure how to explain it but maybe I could say it is somehow connected to not just our thought (that is the grey matter part) but also to our heart...who we are inside. Often the two sides conflict and when they do I know it causes a great deal of discomfort. I believe the spirit is that part of us that comes from God. It is what makes us in his image. The body (including the grey matter) goes back to dust or slime or whatever it ends up as after we die but the essense of who we are remains.
2007-04-06 16:08:24 · answer #3 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
2007-04-06 16:02:04 · answer #4 · answered by Charity 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we each do have a spirit, a lot of times in the book of proverbs referred to as the "heart", especially when referring to our innermost thought(s).
man is flesh (the biological), soul and spirit (these two sometimes used interchangeably, and very confusingly).
the soul would be the seat of emotion, the conscious and sub conscious minds while the spirit would be the conscience, sometimes "gut" or "intuition". both of course are intangible and not measurable, but very real.
i have often thought of our consciences as the difference between animals and ourselves
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2007-04-06 16:23:21 · answer #5 · answered by Tuesday 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we do have a spirit.
But we must master it from our creator's universal gifts of life to create all the wonders for the good of mankind and for our own survival and advancement of ourselves with time in planet of apes.
Without those gifts of fountain of youth will be surviving and running on batteries like "Candle blowing in the wind " with lights flickering and dying out in their youth in planet of apes.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors in the creation of living human kind with total loss of those precious gifts that was lost with time in planet of apes.
2007-04-06 22:09:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The body is just a shell for the spirit
we are all spirit beings................
2007-04-06 16:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by Gifted 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My (necessarily subjective) experience tells me we have spirit.
2007-04-07 04:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by mesun1408 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going." --Ecc 9:10
http://watchtower.org/e/20010715/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1997/5/15/article_01.htm
2007-04-06 16:00:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
looks like jisum 2 me
2007-04-06 15:57:03 · answer #10 · answered by Albinoballs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋