Cannot help but wonder, indeed! So much to wonder about: Why is the Universe the way it is and not some other way? Why is it "there" at all? What is it for? (i.e., does it have goals, purpose? If so, whose or what's?)
I never did get back to js1138 with an example of an existent of the "spiritual" type -- Christmas was hugely busy for me, too, this year!
I will just say this out loud, and let the gaffaws begin!!!: the collective consciousness field is a "spiritual entity" and it is very real. It is manipulatable, too: Hitler played on the collective nationalist consciousness of the German people like a violin. And just look what happened!
How do you think Svengali Clinton manages to be such a big star, still -- in spite of everything that is objectively known about his depredations in office and his pathological mania for lying? He's "massaging the consciousness" of the like-minded: He is making of them a "single mind," so to speak -- a collective mind -- that adores Bill and would even sacrifice for him. All to feed his boundless narcissism. (Which is itself a "spiritual existent" in the present sense.)
In short, he is working in the field of collective consciousness, and he's very, very good at it. Hitlery is less good at this, by far. But as long as Bill is there, working the shadows for her, she doesn't need to be all that good.
In short, the collective consciousness is the field for which "spin" is designed and in which it is intended to work. "Spin" is itself a "spiritual existent," for that matter.
You'll get no guffaws from me about collective consciousness. Clinton and Hitler's ability to manipulate the masses like so many bees or ants was a great example.
There's also that sense we get when we walk into a roomful of ideological hostiles or friendlies when there is no visible or logical cause for such a reaction. Or am I just "weird" in picking up on the attitude of a group?