by cyranorox » November 26th, 2008, 4:31 pm
I'm the Cheshire Cat.
couldn't resist: Mitch's exposition might work if we correct dualism to duality, and simplistic to simple [complex not being a term of praise with me]
Energy is the convertable currency of objects, although it may reduce to strings in their rolled up dimensional habitats. no news here. We have minds- ok. We have spirits-ok. We have bodies- check.
spiritual energy is more of a problem. my understanding, although this is not an area of theology i have specially studied, is that the spiritual world is composed of persons, ie angels [and temporarily the dead, until the Resurrection], not unhypostasized energy. In the sense of 'action, cause, deed', the energies of God and/or the angels do affect nature- CSL says as much. nothing new here. Magicians, occultists and the like think to use spiritual energy, and it matters much to them; to the extent they get any results, they are almost certainly being fed demonic [fallen angelic] power disguised as neutral spiritual 'energy'.
Modern physics talks in terms of strings, dimensions, carrier particles like gravitons [massless, predicted by superstring theory]; bubbles of spacetime may be the basis of everything natural. Mitch seems to be behind the physics times, circa 1904 a.d.
what the man means by 'the mind is a physical living organism' is just not clear. what organism means to him is probably not what most of us mean; an individual living being, not a component of a being. It might arise from a confused analogy with mitochondria.
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