[Mrs. Don-o]

"The spiritual is real the physical is unreal.....simply an impermanent ego projection/effect."

Fascinating! Would you mind telling me your church affiliation and/or your teacher or possibly a link on the Internet? I had never before heard this philosophy except from friends with a Buddhist or Hindu background. I would like to learn more about your belief.

[Zero Sum]

The spiritual is real the physical is unreal

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I had never before heard this philosophy except from friends with a Buddhist or Hindu background.

This spiritual/physical dualism is also found in certain "Christian" heresies such as Gnosticism. Given that God saw that His creation was good, and that Jesus Christ has a physical body, this dualism is not a Christian concept.

simply an impermanent ego projection/effect.

This "projection" concept is interesting, though, and C.S. Lewis discussed something like it when he called this world the "Shadowlands". However, I don't think he ever denied the reality of the physical. I believe that Lewis found this "projection" concept in Plato's writings, but that's something that's still on my much-too-long reading list. At any rate, Lewis echoes the Apostle Paul who writes:

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. (1 Corinthians 13:12)

[ninonitti]

I had never before heard this philosophy except from friends with a Buddhist or Hindu background. I would like to learn more about your belief.

That pretty much nails it Buddist-Hindu or is it Hindu-Buddist? I have enjoyed Christian contemplatives....Merton's a big fav; Sufi mysticism; Meher Baba;The Christ of A Course in Miracles.