I especially appreciated Kosta's statement:
The idea of an immortal soul, a whole being that "feels" and "sees" and exists transcendentally on another conscious plane, is intriguing. To me, it's like dark matter—a convenient postulate that could answer a lot of questions, but no one knows what it is or how to detect it and recognize it.
I can tell him how to achieve this state but he will not be willing to achieve it. Paul provides the methodology and does Jesus. Paul says we must die to the Old Man and be reborn as a New Man. Jesus says that we must die to the flesh to be reborn to the spirit.
It is really quite simple. Just give up your incessant harrowing and let everything you think you know become refuse on the trash heap of your life. Then ask, no, beg the Lord to forgive your miserable self and take you on as a special case (I made up that part).
He is ready to give you a new mind and a new body. All you need do is ask with every fibre of your being and allow for no escape hatches.
All or nothing. God's Way or the highway. Life or death. Choose today.
post #790 is about you and should have been directed to you. I apologize for treating you in the third person.