I think this notion of "materiality" is an ancient chain letter that we can discard, or at least leave aside as we consider alternatives that can still support the notional 'self' & individual 'soul' without requiring a dualistic reality.
What the ancients understood as "matter" we can consider as 'localized coherence' (membranes, knots, vortices, etc.), and the "spirit" as fields, in a non-dualistic universe.
So speaking of Western religions, reconsider the meaning of the thought that "the kingdom is in you", and in the spirit of a holistic human metaphysics, note that whether in the "East" or in the "West", the key to transcendence appears to be shedding the illusion of the centrality of the localized "body" as the totality of the self.
> non-material souls
I think this notion of "materiality" is an ancient chain letter that we can discard, or at least leave aside as we consider alternatives that can still support the notional 'self' & individual 'soul' without requiring a dualistic reality.
What the ancients understood as "matter" we can consider as 'localized coherence' (membranes, knots, vortices, etc.), and the "spirit" as fields, in a non-dualistic universe.
So speaking of Western religions, reconsider the meaning of the thought that "the kingdom is in you", and in the spirit of a holistic human metaphysics, note that whether in the "East" or in the "West", the key to transcendence appears to be shedding the illusion of the centrality of the localized "body" as the totality of the self.