Inspiration™ Oil Blend from Young Living Essential Oils
Increase your inner awareness and experience spiritual quietness
Note: The term "spiritual" is used here in its common usage of the day. I have no real problem with that use of the term, in general, but feel that some clarification would not be out-of-order here.
It's my personal belief that what most often is referred to as "spiritual" is, in fact, "soulical" — that is, of the soul, rather than the spirit. This belief is rooted in the understanding (supported by 1 Thessalonians 5:23, and other references) that man consists of body, soul and spirit, and that the natural man — that is, the man who is not in Christ — is dead to the things of the Spirit until he is regenerated in Christ. Even then, there must be a time of growth in the things of God before that person would be truly spiritual.
But today, the term "spiritual" is used of almost anything with an element of the religious or mystical. However, in my understanding, religion and the mystical — as they are generally known today — are not truly spiritual, but soulical. Existing apart from a life in Christ — indeed, often without even a belief in a personal God — they could not be spiritual, in the sense that I understand it.
I will concede that natural man has an amazing capacity for the religious and mystical. And the soul has a latent power that some are able to tap into with nearly miraculous results. But, as a Christian, I have problems with the idea that the pineal is truly the window between the physical and the spiritual.
