Where are you?

  • As a soul, you exist in a multidimensional reality.  String theories
    currently predict that there are at least 10 dimensions of this
    reality, and maybe as many as 26.  Most dimensions are veiled
    from you while you have a physical body.  
                               
  • Your physical body only exists in three dimensions of space
    (height x width x length), and one of time. These dimensions
    contain planet Earth and what we call the "universe”.  We
    generally refer to these as the “physical” or “material" dimensions
    or world.  These physical dimensions are also referred to as the
    “natural” world.

  • The dimensions which are veiled from you are generally referred
    to as the “spiritual” dimensions or “realms”.  They are also
    referred to as the "supernatural" world.  They exist beyond the
    natural world, or physical dimensions.  They are not subject to
    the physical laws (physics) of the natural world.

  • The totality of dimensions is often referred to as the
    “multiverse”.

  • The physical dimensions are a limited and temporary home.

  • When a soul is living in the physical world within a body, it is said
    to be experiencing an "incarnation".

  • When our physical body dies, we leave it and return to the
    spiritual dimensions.

  • The spiritual dimensions are our true or real home.  We exist
    there as non-physical entities

  • We are not alone in God’s creation; the physical universe is
    teeming with life, as are all dimensions in the multiverse.  The
    multiverse can be thought of as the totality of God's creation.

Why are we temporarily living in the physical world?

  • The physical world is a learning environment.

  • Life in the physical world is more difficult than in the spiritual
    dimensions, so incarnating here enables us to test and accelerate
    our evolution as souls by learning to use our freewill to grow
    spiritually through love.

  • Our physical bodies require respect and nurturing.  They challenge
    us in ways that are not possible in the spiritual dimensions,
    where we do not have to work at caring for physical bodies.

  • In the physical world, the temptations to do wrong are
    abundantly available, so it is easy to make mistakes and learn from
    them. It is our reaction to difficulties and temptations that
    develop our character when we choose the loving path.

  • In the physical world, we are continually exposed to a wide range
    of loving and unloving souls.  This presents us with numerous
    opportunities to learn and practice unconditional love.

  • The calm, peace and beauty of the spiritual dimensions mean that
    the opportunities to test ourselves and choose the loving path
    while under stress are not generally available.  In these
    dimensions is not hard to do the right thing, because there is
    much less temptation, as well as more awareness of the
    consequences of our actions.

  • The physical dimensions contain a mechanism to learn right from
    wrong, and teachers to show us how to evolve spiritually:  
  • The mechanism is called karma;
  • The teachers are evolved souls who agreed to have a
    physical incarnation in order to teach us.  The greatest
    teachers include Jesus Christ, The Buddha and Mohammed.  
    In recent times the list would also include Martin Luther
    King, Gandhi, The Dali Lama and Mother Theresa.         

Ordinary life, our earthly
existence, is often dull. Romance
is exciting. Our moments of
romance are those when a little
bit of heaven seems, thank God,
to impinge, to intrude upon our
daily lives. I learn for such
moments. It is because I yearn
for them so much that I generally
feel this earth is not my home.
The yearning is particularly
intense when I am bored for any
length of time. I want to go
home.  Heaven is the home of
God. For years I have known that
my only real romance is with
God. I want to be with God. I
want to be in his or her arms
where I belong, and I hope I shall
be when I die. But I am not ready
to go home yet, and God does not
come to me often. Certainly
never on demand. She has Her
own schedule. Her timing is not
my timing, and I must content
myself with that. I am not so
good at being content, however,
that I do not look forward to
substitutes, even if they be but
shadows of the real thing...
M. Scott Peck

The ideal place to grow
spiritually is on earth because of
the influence of a physical body.
The opportunity for the full
range of love (child's love,
marital love, and parental love)
is ideally available while one is
on earth. Love which has been
misused or misdirected is also
best corrected in the physical. On
earth, there is the full range of
physical and spiritual senses with
which to act and communicate.
Nora Spurgin

An important purpose for
mortality is to help us learn to
recognize and to choose the
positive even though the
negative more fully surrounds us.
We make this choice consciously
or unconsciously in every
moment of the day, and these
millions of tiny choices create
the foundation of our identity.
We are what we think. We are
what we say, what we do, what
we fill our lives with. Ultimately,
every being creates himself by
these countless, crucial choices.
Betty Eadie

One of the reasons for the
physical realm is to test our
spiritual ideals to see if they are
real. If a soul has a spiritual ideal
and desires to know if it actually
possesses that ideal, the soul can
come to earth to be tested after
applying this ideal in a physical
life. The earth is a good school
for overcoming certain
weaknesses in ways that only a
body of flesh can. We apply
ourselves here on earth to see if
those weaknesses are truly
overcome. Here we can learn for
sure whether we have really
changed. Only by becoming
subject to the physical influences
of the flesh and the laws of this
physical realm can a soul know
for certain if they really possess
that spiritual ideal.
Edgar Cayce

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an
examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the
moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a
physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.
Mark Victor Hansen

This world is only a temporary place for our schooling. Our true
permanent home is the spiritual universe.
Betty Eadie
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