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The Mind of Christ

The Mind-Body Debate of Dualism

By Thomas Lee Abshier, ND

June 25, 2009

 

Philosophers through the ages have attempted to resolve questions about the nature of the substance of mind and matter.  Are mind and matter fundamentally composed of two distinctly different substances?  Plato addressed this issue in the dualism versus monism mind-body debate.  The most extreme philosophical apologists for monism have attempted to resolve the issue of duality by arguing for a universe composed only of mind, with the external world existing in reality only within the perception of the mind.

 

Thus, we are attempting to resolve a question about the fundamental nature of the universe.  Is is composed of only mind and its internal perceptions?  Or is there a true external world outside of the mind and its perceptions, even if such an external world cannot be proven by any absolute evidence, since all evidence is also only perceived within the mind?

 

The body is only one of the issues, since any perceived substance or reality Is body composed of a second substance separate from the body?  The creation changes, so there must be something separate and different to allow for the changing manifestation of the creation.  he mind-body debate, consciousness the dilemma between the existence of only one thing, the being-ness of life, with the changeability of things.  In the Theory of Absolutes, the duality is resolved by recognizing that God the Father is the origin of all things.  The hologram of every possibility resides in the Father, and in the Son there is the perfection of the manifestation of the human way.  The Holy Spirit is the aspect of the Godhead that speaks and resides with men and directs their hearts.  Satan is the spiritual embodiment of all that is not lawful, good, and proper for man.  The creation is only significant and meaningful because of man.