Spirit and Body

Some quick thoughts:

Death is non-existence. Non-existence doesn’t exist. Therefore death does not exist. This is simple logic. 

However we see the body ‘dies’, or rather ceases to be animated by a living spirit, so it is the living spirit that animated the body that does not die. 

Jesus said, He would save his life will lose it. The person who primarily identifies with the body loses their real life of the spirit, and of course the body which they try to cling to.

Sin, or at least so much of it, is this enslavement to the body, or carnality. And because the spirit is the truth of self, then it really is enslavement! Thus things like shame, where the self as spirit knows it acted in submission to something lesser than itself, and the false nature of what to submitted to became very obvious as one went deeper into its nature and pathways.

On the other hand, there is historically lots of dismissing and hatred of life in the physical, because of its being at odds with a felt spiritual perfection. All kinds of religious and philosophical doctrines pour out and transform in time from this feeling, right down into atheism. This in itself is double-minded or a schizophrenic disconnect. There is no need to view the body as evil! But it is a huge matter to fully reconcile the spirit and life in the physical realm. What is wanted is the two in accord, not discord. That might sound nice and simple and logical, but it’s no small thing.