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and what do you think manifests or leads someone to believe certain kind of beings have to be made of a certain material?

i think my soul definitely looks like a little bird

I feel like my soul looks like a blue blob i’ve always imagined it this way i dont know about others

I think my just is. Like air. It’s the same way I would describe God, a conscious being you can’t see. I also believe that there is no hell. When we die, we are sent to the spirit lobby, where we choose our new life, family, and experiences.

>>9001
>choose our experiences
Yeah I didn't choose to experience this.

>>8977
I took a bunch of mushrooms years ago and really internalized the Buddhist doctrine of non-self, so I don't think there are souls (or alternatively that my soul just looks like reality itself)

>>8977
I don't think souls and spirits reflect any photons for us to see

But they probably look cute, probabbly little kitten ghosts or bird ghosts, or little soft dango blobs, maybe even cat-eared dango blobs

>>8984
Haro evurinyan, hou aru you?
Fai, sankyu!

Ai wish ai waa a bardo.

If you can see a spirit, it's someone who hasn't fully moved on from their worldly attachments!
If you fully move on and rejoin the All, you lose your individuality for a bit .. to be one with Everything.
A spirit with a full body is held back by something.

>>10403
>lose your individuality
on my way

Spirits are formless. They don't "look" like anything because they are beyond the field of vision. If you are to imagine a spirit, imagine a thin layer of silk spread evenly over the entirety of space time. Spirits exist everywhere at all times. They're neither here nor there. Spirits are immaterial; they aren't tied to the physical realm. Your mother was right in that spirits appear like bodies of water; meaning, like liquids, they take the shape of the containers that hold them. When there is no containers, they overflow across the material realm. Spirits can appropriate the forms that they have seen in life, but those are like crass impersonations and don't hold weight. In your mind, imagine a great big ocean, but the ocean has no borders nor landmasses, it's just endless water. Now imagine all that has existed and all that will exist is held within the confines of that ocean. That is what the spirit is.

I always imagined them as just light orbs that can take on any shape or form they desire. Unless there is some kind of metaphysical gender for them but I doubt it

>>8999
Karlyn Borysenko in picrel vibes, new age/new thought is so weird. And kinda nihilistic when you really get into it.

>>9018
Mormons and new agers/thoughters believe you do because pre-birth/post-death you’re infinitely smarter and do it for a higher spiritual purpose. It walks a line between “ok that kinda makes sense” and spiritual bypassing, idk if I believe it cuz there’s so many NDEs that say its true and technically any finite suffering doesn’t mean anything for an eternal existence, I hope it’s not true though, it’s so nihilistic.

>>10528
You can just say you think they’re omnipresent, sounds a lot like Nirvana is what you’re describing imo