21 levels of Self-Deception: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview
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7. Ascendancy is Spirit
‘… if we want an intensification of spirituality, it might be better to become more intimate with the things of the earth than to build a self in the sky.’
Thomas Moore — The Re-enchantment of
Everyday Life
‘The bodiless spirituality that many find comforting I don’t trust. I don’t trust its preference for white light and its assumption that the spirit resides in the sky or in the brilliant stars.’
Thomas Moore — Original Self
As explained in the previous chapter, the terms spirit and soul are used advisedly in this work — borrowed as they are from religion. Spirit is not used to mean that there is any kind of separate and discrete substance within a person that has its own existence. Nor do I subscribe to a literal belief that there is some element of God, such as the Holy Spirit, that can indwell an individual person and partly or fully motivate that person’s actions. The terms spirit and soul are often used almost interchangeably in religious writing.
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