What Is Spirit? Spirit is a Dot.

What is Spirit?

Spirit is something that no one destroys.

--From The Low Spark of High-heeled Boys, by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood

The Invincible

--Title to a book by Nicholas Roerich

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed…it can only be changed from one form (in the Form) to another (released from the body vehicle)”

-Albert Einstein (with a little help from my friends)

Energy rises,

Energy transforms,

Energy dissolves.

Repeat.

Question:

Hello!

What is your definition of Spirit?

Response:

Wow! That is a challenging question that could be answered in so many ways, all of which will likely be incomplete. 

So I sat with it a little while until an answer came to me in response to this specific inquiry at this specific time:

Spirit is the blank canvas of Nothingness

Which mysteriously emanates

The painting of constantly changing Everythingness

Until it dissolves back

Into the blank canvas of Nothingness

In eternal cycles

Through Timeless Time

And Spaceless Space

PS: To the extent that we retain a sense of individuality, the individual spirit/soul is akin to a dot of paint in the universal ever-changing cosmic painting. An individual that perceives only separation and no connection likely does not perceive they are a spiritual dot. An individual that senses they are a connected dot, even if only occasionally, usually has some sense of themselves as a spiritual being. There may be occasions when a dot experiences its sense of individuality receding into the vastness of the ever-changing cosmic painting. And there may be occasions when a dot experiences its sense of individuality receding even further into the permanent never-changing invincible indestructible blank canvas and becomes lost in the Fullness/Everythingness that appears as Emptiness/Nothingness.

God is the source and substance of all potentiality, all manifestation, and all activity and inactivity. There is nothing but Spirit, there is nothing but God.

But are there croutons in the Cosmic Soup? Read my book Torah-Veda to find out!