Actually I'm "discussing" this now in the Christianity
debate. Our Western minds have been so programmed by evangelical
Christianity that we are just a body and that we will be "resurrected"
in these heavy things that it is almost impossible to convince people of any ilk
that we are spirit. If we are going to be resurrected in physical bodies
like the evangelicals teach what is God going to do with infants and new
borns? Who in the world that have lost limbs would want those bodies
back? How about 90 and 100 year olds? I'm in my 80s and I don't want
this one back.
In a meditation group many years ago I was taught that I was an eternal
spirit but I didn't really believe it. I took classes with them because I
learned that I could heal myself and didn't have to run to a practitioner in
order to get healing (spiritual). After about two years of daily
meditation I could experience all of my chakras and energy system, 24/7. I
still do. Sometimes I wish I didn't, but recognizing and experiencing
yourself as spirit is the route to change and spiritual healing and that's what
we are here for.