Where can I see a Spirit for myself?
I would like to believe you but,,,,, Where can I see a Spirit for myself?
Of course, you cannot see a Spirit with your eyes because it doesn’t have a physical appearance. However you can get a very real experience of the spirit in someone else in two situations – Birth and Death.
Birth and Babies
Have you ever looked into the eyes of a young
baby, maybe less than six months old?
If you have had some experience of bringing up a baby, you will have noticed that sometimes its face has an amazingly out of this world look. Do you remember seeing this?
William Wordsworth, the Lakeland Poet, wrote a famous poem called Ode: Intimations of Immortality which includes the line
But trailing clouds of glory do we come,
This refers to the way babies still have a far away look in their eyes which relates to another world. Wordsworth calls the look ‘celestial’. This can occur for several months after birth.
Have you seen this? What feeling did it give you?
Death
Anyone who dies of natural causes, rather than a fatal accident, usually takes some time about it.
No matter how long or painful the process has been, most people seem to experience a ‘revival’ towards the end which may last a few hours or days.
Experienced medics recognise this and usually send their patients ‘home to die’, although they don’t usually tell the relatives that.
During the last few days or weeks the dying person is detaching as a spirit from the body and returning to their full spiritual identity.
Relatives and friends who are present and calm during some of this time report this to have been a beautiful experience.
Have you had this experience yourself? Sadly many people get so emotional, which draws their attention back to themselves, that they fail to notice.
So those are the occasions you can get closest to experiencing someone else’s spirituality. If you have not had this experience yourself why not ask other people who have been in those situations?
However we want to help you learn how to experience your own spirituality.
Which came first: Mind, Body or Spirit?
Why is the order important?
You will have heard these three words grouped together in various contexts. However few people stop to consider how they may have come together or relate to each other.
Here is a suggested answer and you can judge whether it makes sense to you.
If you agree that a Spirit is immortal, then it is likely to have been here first. At some point it has decided to take on a body to do something or achieve something in what we might call the ‘Physical Universe’.
The Spirit looks for a body that is close to being born or waits until a pair of suitable parents conceive one. At some time during pregnancy or just after birth, the spirit enters or connects with the body.
The baby then grows into a child but can’t create much of an effect because it is still dependent on its parents or care givers for survival. The spirit may not be able to do much through the body but can still make its presence felt. Children often report experiencing visits from angels and strange perceptions which may even frighten them.
Meanwhile the young child is developing a memory to remember information and skills that it is learning. This becomes part of what we call the Mind. As the child grows it is using the mind to remember, interpret and react to life as it experiences it. These experiences can be mostly good or mostly bad, and they will colour and affect how the growing child sees and operates in the world.
As the child grows into an adult it has more learning to do. It must learn life skills which enable it to survive and achieve what it wants. These skills enable it to make its way in the world and to become an independent operating person.
Only now can the spirit start to exert its influence on the body to start creating the results it came to this universe to do or achieve.
Does this model of how Mind, Body and Spirit may relate to each other resonate with you?
Why am I here?
What is the point of my life?
This or a similar question can occur at any time in life but is most common when we hit our forties. Prior to that we were busy trying to fit into the roles that our parents or teachers or society had mapped out for us.
This was usually to get a good education, get a job or learn a skill, then get a partner, build a home and have a family, and work hard to generate the money to pay for all the above.
By the time you are in your late forties, these jobs are largely done. Then you may have thoughts like ‘Is this all there is to my life?’
Be fair to yourself! You have done a very important job. You have taken care to repopulate the planet by replacing yourself. Thus you have insured continuation of the human species.
However you are only in your forties! Modern life expectancy suggests you have another forty to fifty years ahead of you?
What are you going to do with all that time? You can occupy yourself with grandchildren or pursue your career.
Unfortunately grandchildren grow up and careers can fail to satisfy beyond a certain level. You will then be left the same question and feeling of something missing in your life.
Could it be this is the time when your Spirit is starting to call out to you?