Spirituality (2)

If we accept the concept of spirit, which could be our intellect, our conscious mind, or just our life energy, then must we tie it just to living things in our the physical, sensory world?  Must the spirit be combined with a physical object?  Can there be spirits, sources of energy that exist but are not part of our sensory world?  I am asking again for a suspension of disbelief.  Magic, so much a part of the ancient world and its beliefs in spirits, has been delegated to the realm of entertainment.  It still has a tremendous draw.  The phenomenon that is Harry Potter testifies to that.  

If these spirits exist, and are independent of the body, but just join with it for the live span of the body, are they benevolent or malevolent?  Are they our protectors or our persecutors, or both?  Is there a system behind them that guides the actions of the spirit, or are they free agents.  Are those who claim to see them telling the truth?  For entertainment, we enjoy to watch them as both good and bad.  Ghosts are easier to understand from this perspective than vampires or werewolves, but movies about them all proliferate.  I have to admit that I enjoy them.  The Hebrew Bible does not deny necromancy.  It only condemns it.  

Does the spirit upon leaving the body maintain its identity?  Or, if it is only a life source, will it join with another physical body as part of a greater life source?  Plato speculated that the spirit, the soul, outside the physical, joins with the knowledge of God in the spiritual world to know all that is, was, and will be in one instant.  Time is an irrelevant concept to just a spirit, since the spirit does not change like the physical body.  It just knows the time to enter and to leave it.  And so, can I expect to have answers to all my questions, like the one that prompted this page.  So I remember who I was?

For some believing Jews, it will not take death, but the coming of the Messiah to reveal the truth so that we understand it.  The Messiah is a topic for another time.  As I said, I do like to suspend my disbelief so I can enjoy vampire, werewolf, and ghost stories.  I have never encountered any of those in my real life, so I work under the assumption that they exist only in our imagination.  For some, God only exists in our imagination.  The choice might depend on how we feel about imagination.  Is it our highest mode of thinking, since it is free of the burden of reality and its physical laws.  Or is it our lowest mode, since it is not based on objective sensory data.  

We as a society tend to honor people of imagination who insist upon our suspension of disbelief.  Is the suspension just for entertainment?

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