(September 27, 2016 at 12:32 pm)Bunburryist Wrote: There is often a tendency to fall into an "either/or" way of thinking; that if reality isn't like this, then it must be like that. I found myself being content with finding no common belief believable - neither the religious/spiritual view, nor the materialist view. Try to keep the "none of the above" option open when trying to understand what we are and what "the world" is.
I like to consider the possibility of an amiguous pluralism. For example, it could be that the universe is in a state of superposition: it's neither material nor spiritual, individually one or the other, or both together. It may be that the universe "behaves" as spiritual, or idealistic, or material depending on how we are interacting with it.