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Laura Knight-Jadczyk's avatar

It might even be sometimes useful to consider that the objects, people, and events in our lives are themselves metaphors for spiritual concepts, principles, dynamics.

One useful text for the beginner to get used to the idea of how spirit translates into reality is Louise Hay's little book "Heal Your Body." Another is "When the Body Says 'No'". If a person can begin to understand with their own body, they can then extend this understanding outward, and hopefully expand the whole basis as well to things of the mind and soul.

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Grant Smith's avatar

In my conception, this spiritual sight can be thought of as a full awakening to your own subjective values. With a materialist mindset money can solve all problems. After all, material generally always has some exchange value. The thing is, whether it can be appreciated or not, people value things that cannot be exchanged. We have proof of this in the empirical data that demonstrates material wealth beyond a certain point doesn't correspond to satisfaction with life. Even if there is nothing beyond the material world, and these nonexchangeable values merely emerge from a purely material universe, acting in accordance with these values ensures that you will never have to deal with the cognitive dissonance of compromising yourself. It kind of sucks that we live in a time where being aligned seems more and more likely to land you in a gulag of some kind, but to paraphrase Gandalf that isn't for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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