Derek, I REALLY LIKE your comment: '... I am mostly writing this as an attempt to articulate my own thoughts on the matter...'
Sorry I cannot imagine a summary of any aspect of my topic here I actually believe I am trying to understand it all myselfDTR1975 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:15 pm If we have made a soul contract with the creator, then that is the answer to the question "Why are we here?" Unfortunately, none of us is born knowing what the terms of the contract say. Nor do we know what the payoff is for fulfilling it. Most of the NDEs I have heard that mention a soul contract report that the person having the NDE was shown the contract, but they forget what it says as soon as they return to their body. So we are left right back at the original question: "why am I here?" Is there a way that we can figure out what we are supposed to do or learn? I am mostly writing this as an attempt to articulate my own thoughts on the matter.
I could summarize my own opinion about LIFE: LIFE is the people we love who love us, which is ALL an intangible spiritual experience.
HUMANITY, PHYSICALITY, SCIENCE AND ANYTHING else is ALL absolute ALAN WATTS definition of significant nonsense
[other than Divine Presence, everything is nonsense so as to allow our freedom to add our own meaning to physicality, etc.]