The spiritual realm Review

What is the origin of all things? If we eliminate matter, energy, time and space, what do we have left? A single point infinitely small containing virtually nothing--not even time and space. A point of origin for all things including itself.

Each of us is made of an infinite number of these points. They make up the lines and shapes that we see when we look at your image. They are the essence of you and everything else. They are immaterial and spiritual. Your image, the visual element of your soul, can be captured on film. Note that your image can exist apart from your flesh and blood--your material self.

The same can be said of your voice and personality which can exist apart from your flesh when you are video taped. Perhaps someday it will even be possible to download your thoughts and free will onto a disk. Your thoughts can certainly be recorded with written words and tape.

All that I have described is possible only because you are not simply flesh and blood and matter and energy. You have an immaterial self, a set of points shaping who you are. Thus your image, for example, can be manifested by pixels as well as the matter you are composed of.

The points I refer to are the same points that geometry students are introduced to. A point is something we cannot measure exactly or observe. It is like a ghost, a spirit. It seems imaginary, yet it is real. We know they exist because we see the lines and shapes they make. We have points in time called seconds; we have points in space called coordinates; we have points of mass we call pounds. None of these points are real in the material sense, yet it is impossible for us to imagine the material universe without them.

We know there is such a thing as a yard. But what is a yard? It is three feet, right? OK, but show us something that is exactly three feet long with no margin of error. You can't do it. It is impossible. You can get closer and closer to the exact "point" of three feet, but you will always be slightly off.

The bottom line is you can't even prove that such a point or measurement exists except by inference. You know that there is something longer than three feet, and there is something shorter, so you figure three feet must be somewhere in-between. You know it's there but you can't pin "point" it.

It proves my point (pardon the pun): it is like a ghost. It appears to be there but when we try to grab it, we can't. Ironically, all things we trust to be real, are made up of these ghosts.

The smallest things you are made of are not subatomic particles, but the infinite number of points that make up each subatomic particle. The essence of you is not material but immaterial. All things we deem rational and real are composed of irrational points. I say irrational because that is how mathematicians describe each point or number on a number line.

The shape of who you are is a set of irrational number lines which are sets of irrational points. Without these irrational points I would not be able to see the image that your picture and your flesh manifest. Without these irrational points, I would not hear the lilting timber of your voice, only air molecules beating against my eardrums. I would not be able to check the time or my weight. There would be no space for any material thing to exist, since space is yet another set of irrational points.

Our powers of observation and measurement have always been finite, yet reality has an infinite attribute: any point in time and space. As a result, there is always more to reality than meets the eye. I call that something more the spiritual realm. You call it whatever you choose.