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I don't believe in the supernatural. I don't believe in re-incarnation, an afterlife, or spirits...because it seems unlikely; based more on what is desirable than an explanation for what is. Were these things to exist then we would have to redraw the bounds of nature to incorporate them. I see no need to have a supernatural explanation for anything that exists.
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(I underlined, and italicized the above to make it easier for everyone.)
... Coming back to this- I was thinking (before getting engrossed in my other thread for the last couple of days) that maybe there is something already "afoot" in science that will lead to our gaining better understanding of the spiritual realm as indeed being a basic part of the physical realm that we experience with our senses.
Here's a quote to get us started- "The space-time theorem of general relativity establishes not only the Creator's extra time dimension(s) or their equivalent, but also His capacity to operate in all the space dimensions the universe has ever possessed (or their equivalent). What follows, then, from string theory and from all these recent findings in particle physics and astrophysics, is that God must be operating in a
minimum of eleven dimensions of space and time (or their practical equivalent)."- from
Beyond The Cosmos, by Dr. Hugh Ross, PH.D.
I realize its from a christian perspective, but it still points out what I'm meaning for us relative to this discussion. These concepts are really cool stuff to me, I didn't include here the extra-dimensionality of time(infinite time in an instant of time). But I highly recommend his books for gaining greater understanding of how this universe works, and may work.
So here's my thought- namely that as mankind grows in knowledge we will find that the spiritual realm fits into this same universe's space and time, occupying it as well in additional dimensions that we as yet haven't found means to identify or move into, but they would still be operating under the known laws of nature with additional laws of which we are currently unaware.
It would only be supernatural in the sense that the dimensions exceed the four we live in. (our single dimension of time being the fourth)