Thoughts and Ideas on the Spiritual Nature of Experience

What is the nature of spiritual reality? Spirituality is the nature of this experience on earth. It bugs me sometimes when people talk about life after death as the ultimate question in life. This to me is just not true. Spiritual reality is as real, well more real than the chair you're sitting in right now. I trust the physical reality of the existence of my soul over just about anything else in this life. Science tells us that matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration. Metaphysics implies that there are at least 11 dimensions. All cultures in the history of mankind acknowledge some kind of spiritual reality. Let us be enlightened by a quote from the French mystic Teilhard de Chardin:

“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”

-Teilhard de Chardin, (1881-1955)

A simple and very true thought from a spiritual man, but now let us look at the thoughts of a man from science;

"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”

-Albert Einstein

What is always interesting to me is the correlation between science and spirit. Here with these two quotes we have a perfect example of this. Comparing these two ideas we come across a theme - that first comes the basic fact of the spiritual nature of our reality, and then second is the physicality of this existence.

Teilhard de Chardin On the Role of Art in Evolution

Leonard Shlain uses this quote in his book Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light. It's a really interesting book on a lot of different levels, the thread being, tying the work of the artist and physicist together.

"In short, art represents the area of furthest advance around man's growing energy, the area in which nascent truths condense, take on their first form, and become animate, before they are definitively formulated and assimilated. This is the effective function and role of art in the general economy of evolution."

(Teilhard de Chardin, Toward the Future, trans. Rene' Hague pp. 90-91. Art & Physics pp.387 -388.)

The preceding quote, from the chapter titled I/We is discussing universal mind, the fourth dimension, and the role that artists play in understanding the weave that ties these things together. This idea ties in heavily with this post: Jung on the role of the artist. Artists mold the unconconcious, dream/mythos, unexpressed needs, whatever you want to call it, of culture and bring those ideas and images, words, music etc., into the physical world of expression.