JoelB
All Praise To TMH
The consciousness is often a product of its environment. An "idea" or perception doesnt exist unless it is able to be percieved and understood by the subject through stimuli.
laymans example: the idea of being suicidal is incomprehensible by person Y. It cannot be comprehended by person Y because said person has lived a prosperous, joyful life. He cannot possibly understand why someone would attempt suicide. Therefore in person Y's mind, such feelings do not exist.
Unless person Y has been in person X's shoes, experienced every level and kind of stimuli person X has experienced throughout life up to this point, he cannot understand why person x has developed to this point. However, to person X suicide is a believable reality that has come to pass due to unfortunate circumstance.
Moving forward, Since our consciousness is under the influence of [this] reality. we often cannot understand nor perceive anything else. Because our tendancy is to submit to a physical reality, due to physical stimuli.
Now, with this being established. How can you say nothing exists outside a physical reality, when all you know is physical stimuli?
Except most religious/spiritual dogma presumes that we are "Spiritual beings living in a temporary physical body" and that our "souls are immortal".
Therefore, If our souls are immortal, they could not have been "created" at the moment of conception. The spiritual stimuli would have been created prior to coming into our physical form. At this point in our lives we all have already experienced the duality of life. Spiritual/non material existence and Physical existence.
Imagine existing in a spiritual form for what seems like infinity(since you spirit is immortal), and BLAM...you are in the physical...then BLAM you die and you are back in the spiritual form again. (On a timeline your existence in the physical would be a microscopic dot in comparison)
Would the influence of the dot really override the influence of our infinite spiritual consciousness?
