Thought for the hour.

[ysobelle]

Do we start as incorporeal beings? Is childhood merely the time when we cement our psyche to our physical being?

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[center.livejournal.com]

we are limited by the physical.

childhood, teens, and adults mold their thoughts and behaviours by the development of neural pathways. some form bonds so strong and unwavering that they don't change. this is crystalization.

some are more fluid.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

So you think kids are closer to spiritual beings?

[foxglove-8778.livejournal.com]

this smacks of the chicken and the egg....

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Well, it is a cyclical thought: that we're spirits, we become attached to bodies for a time, then we are spirits again once our bodies release us.

[surlywench.livejournal.com]

Ready? I believe that when we are in utero, and have no concept of linear time, we "hop" to different points in our lives. It's how I explain deja vu, or the feeling that you've already met someone (aside from the whole past life thing) -
so yes, we start out that way as incorporeal and childhood is the time in which we learn to function in a world of physical limits and laws.

[hennabee.livejournal.com]

The body, the mind and the spirit are three different entities that interact with each other for needed tasks.
The body and mind are vessels for the spirit to express itself, gather information, and interact with the world on a physical level. We were never these bodies to begin with, but beings that agreed we were separate somehow and joined with a vessel to individually experience this world. Those that don't join with a vessel might be the ghosts we're seeing.
But you see we are all a brilliant light within a clay pot figuring out how to reach out to the other lights around us as best we can, and through our different experiences and means. And when we are done and we have learned enough, we lose the vessel and become light again, perhaps chosing to return and try a new vessel.
Most excellent topic m'dear.

[well-artesia.livejournal.com]

In a word... yes. :)