Dan_LastName
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I do not disagree, but for me personally, studying these reported experiences of others in these realms has helped my understanding of our current realm, at least I BELIEVE that it has. At least in a metaphysical sense.
What it tells me is that our current realm is NOT “base reality.” And that these other realms are not these spooky “spiritual realms.” They are just other places, like our current place, where conscious beings live. They are no more or less “spiritual” than our current Universe. I now look at what most people call “spiritual realms” as just other places as I do France, or Japan etc. The “ghosts” who live in these places aren’t ghosts, they’re just conscious beings like me living elsewhere. And some of these places are completely as physical as our Universe (apparently based on a plethora of credible reports).
It’s quite a shift from the predominant Western Christian influenced notion of the “spirit world” as just a singular ethereal realm where God lives. And this is the sort of impression or base assumption that many/most hold in the Western world whether they are Christian or not.
We need to shift away from seeing these other conscious beings as less real and ghostly, and rather begin seeing them as ALIVE conscious beings, the opposite of dead. And also to cease imagining our Universe as “the material world” and everything else as a fundamentally different “spiritual realm.” There are likely countless numbers of dimensions (if that’s what you want to call them) where beings are operating and working on their spiritual growth, which (to me) means the same things as, “working on the quality of their conscious experience.”
I am curious about your idea of other realms (or whatever you want to call them). Would you say that your perspective is a kind of materialist view of other realms?