Consciousness Continued: A fresh start

This goes well back in the thread, (#7) but I wanted to follow up on it. I'm wondering why you would think that. We have four terms that we often seem to use interchangeably; consciousness, mind, spirit and soul. I frankly don't know how to differentiate between them.Enough people seem to have experienced out of body experiences while they were brain dead to indicate that they actually do occur. I realize that there are those who have alternative explanations but that too is a matter of opinion.The question then is which of these four possibilities, (or are they all one and the same?), is functioning when the physical brain has stopped functioning?Why do you believe that we require an additional metaphysical body between the body and the soul? This is one of the issues that puzzles me. It seems that the entire physical world is made up of particles, some having mass and some not, and even at that we can only observe 5% of things anyway. As I, with my less than minimal knowledge, understand that scientists seem to think the these particles are in reality bits of energy or maybe even thought. We don't really even know what energy is. If the physical world is a projection from some other dimensional projector then we are starting to see the lines between the physical and the metaphysical to become extremely blurred.Interesting thread but in the end we can only make our best guess and then we are into areas of faith.

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