The second flow is spiritual and helps us deal with the uncertainties, complexities and mysteries of our lives. While our spiritual flow is often focused on what we believe is our afterlife, it generally helps us with our current life and often defines how we live our life. Not everyone is spiritual, but there is plenty of physical evidence that human beings have generally believed that there is something additional to our physical self that affects our lives. The intention of our spiritual flow is to connect us to the meta-physical and non-physical aspects of our universe. For most, this is God, and our spiritual flow satisfies this need. The dilemma is that the two flows often seem unconnected and separate. The Harvard paleontologist Steven Jay Gould even proposed that these two flows are separate and parallel magistrates that together allow most human beings to successfully live out their lives.
While there are many spiritual pathways that guide most human beings, their intention is quite similar. Often these take the form of religions with very separate belief systems and many specific rules. Nevertheless, there seem to be a few common tenets at the core of most religious or spiritual practices. Most teach that there is a God, that this God loves us, and that this God wants us to love each other. However, many religious and spiritual practitioners believe that God is separate from our physical universe, or that God created our universe, and some, that God is our universe. Because we do or want to believe that God loves us, many believe that he has connected with us through prophets, priests or holy people. And most people, religious or not, believe that God does interact with us in some way. It is this belief that is particularly interesting with respect to intention and flow.
If we believe that our physical flow is God’s intention and that our spiritual flow is also God’s intention, then these two flows may not be completely separate and unconnected. After all, the spiritual is often called the metaphysical, that is encompassing physical. There is at least one aspect of both that seems to be common: Light. It governs our physical world, is the constant between energy and matter, and is a connection between space and time. Spiritually, it is often considered the manifestation of God’s spirit and the way that God illuminates and connects with us. While physical light can be measured and defined in terms of frequency and wavelength, spiritual light is much more personal since it is the relationship between ourselves and God. Since both flows use light for transmission, there may be an overlap between the two which is at least worth exploring.
