Back again; somewhere in the causal movement to the "unmoved mover' as stated in another thread or here in this thread there can be a regression when at some point the "unmoved mover" is posited for otherwise the movement of causality if regression never stops and so the "unmoved mover" is a "stop" through reason and judgment, a spiritual activity.
I'd like to regress in another manner which I find enlightening as to whether there is a spiritual world. If we picture a man in old age and regress to his middle age with his powers and creations and continue this "picturing" to an age of strength and clarity at about 28-30 years of age to the picture of youth and its adolescent powers to childhood to the toddler to the baby who is born from the womb after developing through a pregnancy we come to the fetal conception .
The fetal conception is pictured as the penetration of the female egg by the sperm, a secretion of the human being at the time of climax. I'll stay with the orgasmic or climax in the male of the species and go from there.
William James, a well known if not great American psychologist unequivocally states : when a man cries the physical man secretes the tears and then we feel sad. First the lachrymal movement and then we feel sad.
Conradistinct is the comprehension that one "feels sad" and then we cry. This is something that we can become clear about and displays the difference between the materialist exegesis and the comprehension of the spiritual.
There are others and in the "feeling of shame" the blood rushes to the face and according to William James the blood rushes first and then we feel shame. Clear perception would state that one experiences "shame" and the blood does its rush to the face.
A third is in the feeling of "fear" the blood rushes to the center of the human body and he will appear pallid and other symptoms in this experiencing of fear.
According to William James the blood rushes to the center of the body and then we experience fear. Likewise we might say that we experience fear and the blood rushes to the center of our body.
And so, if we are able to see that the experience of fear, shame and sadness is a manifestation what may be called a "psycho-spiritual " episode then we can have traveled to a consequence of a non material or non sensible activity, at least in the usual terms of senses.
Another look or reason is that fear, shame, sadness and all those experiences of the human soul such as courage, love,even anger and hate are not physical but are well within what one experiences within this "psycho-spiritual" activity.
It is possible to state that "fear" and "shame" is created by the physical human body but it doesn't wash if one thinks in a healthy manner.If one demands the physical as the beginning then one must agree with William James and state that the human being is only physical body.
To buttress the spiritual presentation ancient and near ancient peoples ,who were us, knew that the world as we see it was and is the outer manifestation of spiritual activity for the entire world and cosmos was divine. They knew this through an atavistic consciousness which is a clairvoyant capability to which mankind has lost and gained his intellect.
Getting back to our original progression the orgasmic secretion of the sperm is a "psycho-spiritual" activity to which the very birth of the human being is ensconced. The creative activity is contained within us, not only in conception but in our very toenails, tongue and heart. We also, as contained within the cosmos, are the sensate creation of a spiritual activity which creates more than the physical body but non the less, even this physicality is consequential to the spirit.
We are not solely physical and the knowledge of man can be appreciated by study and I'll offer again:
The "Philosophy of Freedom" by Rudolph Steiner also known as the "Philosophy of Spiritual Activity" as per the author.
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA004/...004_index.html
and "Theosophy" by Rudolph Steiner; this can s;peak to higher bodies of man which are supersensible.
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA009/...009_index.html