Are Humans Spiritual Beings

“We are not spiritual creatures having a human experience.” “We are spiritual creatures going through a human journey.”

Most of us have heard these remarks from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French philosopher. And there's something about this concept that resonates with most of us on a primal level.

Something deep down in our guts or hearts, possibly on an unconscious level, recognizes that we are made up of more than just the sum of our ideas, feelings, and current life situation. We have a sensation of being more than simply our small “me.” And, even if we can't fully access the knowing of it directly, the concept that we humans are vaster than our finite and individualized egos seems relieving to most of us.

I once heard a story about a 5-year-old whose mother had just given birth to a new baby. The young child insisted on spending time alone with his new sibling. When asked why he needed this time alone with the new infant, the 5-year-old said that he needed it because he was forgetting about God.

We appear to be born with an intrinsic intelligence and understanding of our limitless and spiritual nature, but our conditioning and simply living life as it happens causes us to forget who and how amazing we truly are. We shrink, and we come to believe that who we are or what we are made of is simply a resume of the roles we play, our successes and failures, the beliefs we hold, and the issues we must address.

So, what stands in the way of us discovering who we truly are? What separates us from our true spiritual and boundless nature? The full response to such inquiries is multi-layered and nuanced. But, because this is a blog article, I'll just give you the quick answer.

Thought, or more precisely, our fixation with our ideas, is the number one thing that causes us to forget our true identity as spiritual beings. We invest the majority of our life's energy and attention to our thoughts from the time we are very young. And, to be honest, the most of them are neither fascinating nor helpful.

We presume that because an idea enters our awareness, we must believe it. We presume that because we are programmed to believe that we are our thoughts, we must pay attention to every idea that arises. This, however, is a fallacious assumption.

Thoughts occur, and we can choose whether or not to trust them. We don't choose to think our thoughts; they just happen. Rather, we are the observers of our own minds. It is up to us to decide how we wish to interact with the competing notions for our attention. Because of our obsession with thoughts, we spend the most of our lives in a trance, unaware of where we are.

To put it another way, it makes us forget about our bodies. We get alienated from our senses when our attention is focused on the constant stream of thoughts we hear. This is significant because our senses are the gateway to our own presence, our fundamental being, and our spirit.

Coming into the body, feeling the breath, and the sensations that are occurring right now—this is our portal into now, and it is only via this present instant, now—sensed directly—that we can recall ourselves as the infinite and spacious presence that we instinctively know (but forget).

What defines the human spirit?

The spiritual or mental portion of humanity, the human spirit is a component of human philosophy, psychology, art, and knowledge. The word “human spirit” is sometimes used interchangeably with “human soul” to refer to the impersonal, universal, or higher component of human nature, as opposed to soul or psyche, which might refer to the ego or lower part. Our intellect, emotions, anxieties, passions, and creativity are all part of the human spirit.

The mental functions of consciousness, insight, comprehension, judgement, and other reasoning powers are believed to comprise the human spirit in the models of Daniel A. Helminiak and Bernard Lonergan.

It is distinct from the psyche's separate component, which includes the entities of emotion, pictures, memory, and personality.

The human spirit, according to Olaf Stapledon, is made up of love, intelligence, and creative action.

The human spirit, according to John Teske, is a social construct that represents aspects of purpose and meaning that go beyond the individual person.

What does spiritual mean in the Bible?

Rather, when used to biblical faith, the term “spirituality” refers to the four-fold relationship that exists between God and man: holiness, the gift of the Spirit, life in the Spirit, and the discipline of the Spirit.

What is my guardian angel?

Guardian angels are spiritual guides that can assist you in your journeys on this planet.

Consider them divine life coaches: As you learn to know your guardian angels, you'll be able to sense their presence and recognize when they're sending you guidance.

And simply conversing with your guardian angels is the best way to get to know them. To get you started, here are four suggestions:

How can I become spiritual?

Seven Ways to Boost Your Spiritual Well-Being

• Examine your spiritual foundation. You are merely asking yourself questions about who you are and what you mean when you explore your spiritual essence.

What does it mean to say that humans are religious beings?

Religion is the relationship between humans and what they consider to be holy, sacred, absolute, spiritual, divine, or worthy of special devotion. It is also often thought to include people's responses to ultimate concerns about their lives and after-death fates. This relationship and these concerns are expressed in many traditions in terms of one's relationship with or attitude toward gods or spirits; they are expressed in more humanistic or naturalistic forms of religion in terms of one's relationship with or attitudes toward the broader human community or the natural world. Many religions regard writings as having biblical character, and people are regarded as having spiritual or moral authority. Believers and worshippers engage in devotional or contemplative practices like as prayer, meditation, or specific rites, and are frequently mandated to do so. Worship, moral behavior, correct belief, and involvement in religious organizations are all important aspects of religious life.

What is spiritual self?

Your Spiritual Self is the most beautiful and powerful version of yourself. It's your true self, the part of you that hasn't been conditioned, the you without patterns. There's no need to get caught up in the lingo because this is a personal matter for everyone of us. During your Process, you were acquainted with this aspect of yourself, which we refer to as your Spiritual Self.

Where is your spirit located in your body?

Understanding the anatomy and activities of the brain is required for medication or surgical treatment of brain illnesses. When it comes to locating the abstract conceptions of mind and soul within the concrete 1300-gram organ containing 100 billion neurones, the philosophical neurosurgeon quickly runs into problems. The brain, according to Hippocrates, is the seat of the mind. Aristotle's tabula rasa cannot be pinpointed to a specific portion of the brain with the same certainty that we can pinpoint spoken word to Broca's area or limb movement to the contralateral motor cortex. Galen's theory of imagination, reasoning, judgment, and memory being located in the cerebral ventricles was disproved once it became clear that the functional units–neurones–were located in the brain's parenchyma. Accidental injuries (Phineas Gage) or temporal lobe resection (William Beecher Scoville); studies on how we see and hear; and more recent data from functional magnetic resonance studies have all made us aware of the extensive network of neurones in the cerebral hemispheres that serve the mind's functions. Ancient anatomists and philosophers thought the soul or atman, which was credited with the ability to invigorate the body, resided in the lungs or heart, the pineal gland (Descartes), and the brain in general. When neurosurgeons were able to access deeper parts of the brain, the brainstem proved to be extremely sensitive and vulnerable. The concept of brain death after irreversible damage has made us all aware of the importance of the brainstem's “mix of brain soup and spark.” If each of us has a soul, it is undoubtedly enshrined here.