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An illusion with the persistence and the heft of the physical world is, I would argue, reality. Your (presumed) unwillingness to walk into the path of a speeding 18-wheeler conveys your own sense of what's real and what's not, wouldn't you say?

The physical world is reality to the extent that our relative human consciousness gives it reality. When human consciousness perceived a world limited to a small section of "flat" land, that was their reality and it dictated the parameters of their experience. In the absolute reality of the spiritual, something like getting hit by an 18-wheeler could not happen - nor would there ever be a desire to see if it could. In my limited understanding of what the spiritual realm is about, there are no accidents, there is no disease, no death - there is only one animating force, one perfect Source, and all existence emanates from and reflects that Source. It would not be very wise to challenge an 18-wheeler while still struggling to progress out of the limitations of human consciousness. However, it does help greatly when confronted by human challenges to try as best as possible to reach a more spiritual state of mind. That practice has proved to work very well for me.

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The physical world is reality to the extent that our relative human consciousness gives it reality. When human consciousness perceived a world limited to a small section of "flat" land, that was their reality and it dictated the parameters of their experience. In the absolute reality of the spiritual, something like getting hit by an 18-wheeler could not happen - nor would there ever be a desire to see if it could. In my limited understanding of what the spiritual realm is about, there are no accidents, there is no disease, no death - there is only one animating force, one perfect Source, and all existence emanates from and reflects that Source. It would not be very wise to challenge an 18-wheeler while still struggling to progress out of the limitations of human consciousness. However, it does help greatly when confronted by human challenges to try as best as possible to reach a more spiritual state of mind. That practice has proved to work very well for me.

Some observations about what you wrote:

I don't know what you mean by "relative human consciousness", and so I don't know what 'non-relative (absolute?) consciousness' might mean, either.
I don't know what you mean by "absolute reality of the spiritual".
Your description of "the spiritual realm" is classical, but, again, I don't know what sort of being such a realm might have. Is there information exchange in such a realm? If so, entropy can't be ignored, and so it's a physical realm that we're talking about. On the other hand, if there's no information exchange in the spiritual realm, then it's indistinguishable from blank non-entity (what the non-religious consider happens to a human consciousness when it dies).
I would respectfully suggest that you not challenge a speeding 18-wheeler even if you succeed in 'elevating' your consciousness (whatever that might mean).