Instinct is thought of as the expression of physical perceptions and movements to things sensed. It's not considered rational or thoughtful. We react at times because our bodies are trained a certain way. As we are immaterial souls in physical bodies, I feel our spiritual impressions, those parts of us that are soul, also learn instinctively. When we're in our souls, which usually just comes from being like when we're meditating or just not trying to reason, we perceive the great beyond, the eternal void. In a state of purity, that is separated from our animal sides. Unfortunately, we can't live our lives as our immaterial souls as we're bound by our physical pains, lusts, desires, etc. I feel that when we're aware of what our souls are and have been in touch with them for any amount of time, our souls become instinctive in interacting with our physical bodies. Freud would probably call that combining the Id with the Superego. We don't just naturally recoil from a hot stove. We SPIRITUALLY recoil from things considered abhorrent or perverted. We don't just reject corruption because it's physically different. We reject it because it's borne of various levels of perversion which the immaterial soul, which cannot be physically perverse, recognizes from experience. I believe the soul evolves in human form. If that's considered reincarnation, that's fine. Over that enormous amount of time, we grow as spiritual beings as well as physical ones. We may be a physical tabula rosa but we are not a spiritual one. It seems likely every soul alive has learned something positively spiritually that they've carried over from evolution to evolution. I know from experience that we often lose those instincts depending on our physical realities. If we have abusive parents, we're probably going to become dysfunctional and, consumed with anger, last out at the physical world. Even though that programming may be no fault of our own, we've become perverted and corrupted by it and we forget our soulful instincts to be in a state of spiritual grace. I feel religion exists as a kind of rudder to help us focus and refocus on God and the soul. The material world corrupts us and the religious world (if operating properly), keeps us on course. When we reject that guidance, we become materialistic and increasingly physically animalistic. I have experienced all those states in this life. The disconnect from the soul, if continued long enough, invariably leads to addiction and other forms of dependence. We have to get through life somehow and, if we aren't physically connected with our spiritual instincts, we become dark inside and decay. Political power is all about moral and spiritual decay, which is why its adherents choose physical and financial dominance in the from of sadism as a way of trying to be happy. Their perverted physical instincts have won and they've become spiritually useless.
The genetically flawed (of which I'm one) are the greatest tragedy. The body really only exists to help us express our souls and our spiritual sides. In that way, it just needs to be functional and healthy. People with twisted genes like me have to deal with genetic perversion only a daily basis, which forces us to drift farther and farther from our internal souls. It's the equivalent of needing to cross a bridge to be happy but there are constant walls being constructed in the way. We have spiritual instincts but they're often blocked by many things that just won't get out of our ways. Those blockages lead to spiritual pain and hopelessness. It's a tough responsibility to keep trying to remove those blockages to be the best spiritual beings we can be, to access our souls. We have to cope as best we can, knowing we can't be where we want to be all the time because we can't be healthy enough to do so. I understand the physical lessons of being a disabled person. Are there spiritual lessons to be learned from it? I think so. I've learned that the soul and the light within are what really matter but I don't want to become Manichean, thinking that the physical world is evil and the light within good though I can definitely see why Manicheans think as they as I age. Evil is rampant in the world and the light within is perpetually in a state of goodness. IF we refine our spiritual instincts and try to BE with them as often as possible, we can bridge the gap as a society to a more beneficial level. We have to learn to reject the evils of the physical while living our physical lives day to day with proper spiritual instincts. We can't just disconnect. We have to bring good to this world in the form of ourselves. Thank you for reading!
