'I am'

Sometimes the simplest thing can start a cascade of thought; one word, or maybe a sentence, heard out of context can light up the synapses like a pin ball machine.

Such a thing happened the other day when someone wrote about how 'their spirit' was polluted by life. Now, I wasn't really interested at that point in the latter part of the sentence as it was the 'their spirit' bit that fired me off at a tangent.

Their spirit...

The human condition is an interesting one for occultists, here we have a mammal not to dissimilar to its cousins that is still equipped with the mental 'reasoning' of its ancestral kith and kin. The ego, the reactive mind and the reptilian hind brain lend nothing to the status of homo sapien as such, but they do modify our behaviour in ways not yet fully understood. The 'I' of being aware of being aware is not generally seen as being a part of the mammalian construct; instead it is accepted as being the 'self identifier' of Spirit. For the uniqueness of this particular mammal called 'Human' is that it is in a symbiotic relationship with an alien entity called 'Spirit'.

Spirit being human.

Now what fascinates me here is, how many spiritually minded folk 'identify' themselves as spirit and how many as human. For me, I am a spirit inhabiting a physical form for a period of time. I regard myself as 'immortal' within the grand design of three dimensional space, of having no sexual alignment outside of my body or any need of becoming greater than I am. I personally see my body as a transient vehicle that permits me to experience this Universe in a linear, tactile manner.

Now... if someone refers to 'their spirit', isn't it the case that they have 'gone native' and lost the sense of who they are.

Example; I drive a car, when I am in my car I do not refer to myself as 'the driver'. I am fully aware that I am not the car, even though the car is doing what I want it to. There is a logic that tells me that when I climb into the car I do not lose my sense of self identity and become the car. In fact, if I believed I was a car my fellow humans would suspect that I had suffered some sort of 'episode' and would refer me to the appropriate therapist.

So how 'spiritual' are the spiritual folk who refer to their spirit as something that is not Them?

The idea that we are human entities evolving towards spirit never works out under scrutiny, it's a bit of a 'flat Earth' theory that sounds quaint but doesn't hold water. However, as a trap it is beautiful; spirit believes itself to be human and subject to all the frailties thereof, and in that belief it essentially devolves life after life until it is unable to function in the universe.

You are not something that 'has' a spirit, you are something that 'has' a body; that is spirit being human. Your soul doesn't go travelling at night, but you do!

The next time, try thinking about 'where' you are thinking from.

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