The Soul is a Porous Form

What has been called the spiritual is, in fact, the world AS WE EXPERIENCE IT--which is based on our visceral response to it. We do not so much see the world as see its form, its outward appearance, as it is exposed to a narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum. We experience the world as a photo negative, as a mold.

Matter is about mass, but we experience mass indirectly, by observing only the effects of one body on another. We live in the world of forms, the world of shadows. Optical illusions and magic tricks have taught us not to trust our senses--they are imperfect imprints of reality. And memory, which serves as the only trace of the world just passed, is completely unreliable.

In this world of forms, things appear delineated. We find lines to color in and we give the different shapes names. These lines represent the forms of things, but on a literal material level, as we have only discovered by extending our senses through instrumentation, atomic particles and atoms move freely and constantly within and through the various forms.

The forms of things, their living patterns, provide the pathways for matter/energy to circulate through the system. These forms are containers of energy, giving it weight and color, but energy never ceases to circulate. These forms have zero substance themselves, yet they are the very stuff of reality. What is the spiritual? Forms with no substance. Virtual reality is the only reality we know.

The forms are not static. They are vortices of energy in the crackling embers of the Big Bang. The energy moves in endless spirals, cycles within cycles, as energy is exchanged according to the Laws of Thermodynamics. Shift your thinking to consider energy flow as the true picture of reality and consider how porous solid things are under this way of thinking.

I am a porous form. A constant tide of energy moves through me. My physical stuff is constantly replaced, yet I, this porous form, remain. This porous form is what past ages called the soul. The I that I know is the soul and all that I know of the world is a show of outward forms designed to make me a more efficient hunter, gatherer, or reproducer. This limited world of shadows is the spiritual world.