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  1. SpiritQuest

    Any Arguments by which to Conclude that Consciousness Is a Product of Brains?

    Photosynthesis of plants appears to require quantum mechanics to work. Evidence that photosynthesis efficiency is based on quantum mechanics | KurzweilAI
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    Any Arguments by which to Conclude that Consciousness Is a Product of Brains?

    It appears that a brain might not be needed for consciousness to exist. How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will
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    Does pleasure weaken us?

    Pleasure and pain are opposites. All experiences during this life and other lifetimes are experiences that eventually result in awakening and enlightenment. The parable of the prodigal son is a story about awakening. Parable of the Prodigal Son - Wikipedia We are beings of pure light...
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    Scientific monism

    The speed of light is zero, pure and perfect stillness. What we are observing is the rate of manifestation of space-time. The universe(The All in All) is continually manifesting creation. There is motion and stillness, AKA movement and repose. The Kingdom of God is the pure and perfect...
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    The Golden Rule-does it apply to everyone?

    The golden rule can be described as an expression of the most fundamental law of reality, the law of cause and effect. Every-thing in reality is connected with all the other things in reality. We are all connected. As you do unto others, so you do unto yourself.
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    Arguments against Oneness and The Ego

    Yes, the word tranquility can certainly be included as a part of the description for that which cannot be completely enunciated and communicated via spoken language. Consciousness is the final frontier...
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    Is there such thing as a peaceful religion ?.

    Union of opposites Sayings of Jesus Jesus said, "When the outer has become as the inner, and the lower as the upper, then will this world find peace."
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    The Absolute Oneness of God

    God is the Universe - the Totality of Existence. Like an infinite ocean where we are like ripples on the surface of that infinite sea. God is the All in All.
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    Arguments against Oneness and The Ego

    Oneness with the Totality of Existence cannot be experienced as a concept but it can be experienced like a shift in consciousness during meditations, prayer, being in nature, and helping others.
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    religion / praying a type of witchcraft?

    Prayer is a form of communication, aka communion with the Universe, which is the Totality of Existence. Jesus said not to build your house on the sand but build your house on the Rock which means you must dig down deep and pull up all the shallow roots(shallow thoughts). The source of all Being...
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    Resurrection of Christ: Literal fact or spiritual reality?

    Resurrection is an inner spiritual process, also called enlightenment. Jesus is the symbol for our inner spiritual being, the Christ child that matures and develops as we experience life and learn and grow to love our neighbor as our-self. Who is the Christ? YOU are the Christ, which is the...
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    What is "Kingdom of God"?

    "Jesus said ‘the kingdom of heaven is within you.’ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‘kingdom,’ he would have said, ‘dimension.’ And ‘heaven’ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness. So if we retranslate the words of Jesus into modern terms [it would be] ‘the dimension of...
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    Anthropolatry

    Yes, idolatry is a state of mind, like a mental block where the mind is in darkness(ignorance). I also include myself as one who is not fully awakened so I am also in darkness. Jesus can be looked up to as a big brother ...or a symbol for our own spirit as it is written in the Gospel of Thomas...
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    Are You Divine?

    God is the Tree of Life and you are a branch on the Tree. Life is divine and you are divine. The body-form is like a flower or a leaf that appears on the branch for a season and then it disappears. Flowers and leaves come and go again and again as the Tree grows and extends eternally. We are all...
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    Historical Jesus

    Creation stories like those in the bible, other books, and oral traditions are allegories that impart spiritual wisdom and understanding. There probably was a real Jesus but the exact details of his biography have been lost in time. The Gospel stories are also allegories for the inner Christ...
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    Free will, Determinism, God, & aTheism

    Free will is the will to create. We do not have free will because only God's will is free. God shares His will with us when we receive it and then our will is also free. In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said, "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves. That which you...
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    What is the Message of the Book of Job?

    The book of Job tells us that suffering is part of life and that we can learn from it and grow spiritually.
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    Proof of the diety of Jesus?

    Jesus' deity is also our deity, in that we are spiritual twins with Jesus. The story of a physical virgin birth has been used by the orthodox church to make Jesus human flesh into an idol of sorts. In truth, Jesus was fully human just like us. Virgin birth actually refers to spiritual re-birth...
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    What is Sin?

    Sin is simply an error or mistake. We come to this world to learn from our mistakes and grow spiritually.
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    Definition of who you are

    I am, the immortal man. The universal oneness of the all defines who I am. If knowledge can be defined as collections of separate or different(divided) facts of experience ...then total knowledge would be known as the undivided wholeness of Being or gnosis.
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