Does Satan communicate with you?

[stevil]

YOU are not the mind or the body......you are the user of the mind an body

My "mind" is a manifestation of my body, primarily my brain.
If I am thinking, they can see this activity on a brain imaging tool, they can tell which part of my brain I am using. If my brain is damaged then my thinking ability changes, perhaps I lose short term memory, perhaps I lose the ability to smell etc.
If I get concussed (i.e. my brain gets rattled) it affects my capability to think.
If I am drug it affects my thinking, if i have adrenaline flowing through me it affects my thinking.
I am not merely a user pulling strings on "my" body. I AM my body.

If I were something entirely different from my body, my thinking would not be impacted in such a way, my thinking would not be seen as brain activity. I might even be able to gain control with my mind of someone else's body. But alas, life isn't that exciting, I am confined to my own body and impacted by the physical stuff that goes on in my body, affecting my moods and capabilities to think and act.

But one day your vehicle will stop running.....and you will have to step out of it....

By what mechanism would "I" still exist?
Where would I be placed in SpaceTime? How could I access memories? How could I be a collection of anything if I didn't have any substance and hence no mechanism to think or exist?

 

[RaymondG]

If I were something entirely different from my body, my thinking would not be impacted in such a way, my thinking would not be seen as brain activity.

A car can be hooked up to machines that can view activity going on within it as well.....but this fact does not mean that there isnt a driver controlling it.

I might even be able to gain control with my mind of someone else's body.

Actually, this is possible but is strictly prohibited. In most cases, this knowledge cannot even be obtained by a mind who desires to control another.

But alas, life isn't that exciting, I am confined to my own body and impacted by the physical stuff that goes on in my body, affecting my moods and capabilities to think and act.

Life is more exciting than you may think........You are only limited by your own beliefs and imagination. Until you understand this, yes, you will be controlled by your body. I guess, instead of saying "satan made me do it" you can say "my body made me do you." I will say the same to you that I would say to the religious who are controlled by outside influences. You can take control, if you desire......and no longer be slave to the world and those therein.

By what mechanism would "I" still exist?

By the same mechanism you existed before you identified with your body.

Where would I be placed in SpaceTime?

You will be everywhere.....anywhere........and nowhere.

How could I access memories?

If you die, you wont be able to.....If you believe in "Me," you will never die.....and wont have to worry about losing memories.....

How could I be a collection of anything if I didn't have any substance and hence no mechanism to think or exist?

Think about your dreams....Try explaining to anyone in your dream that they are not real and only exist inside your mind....and that they will cease to exist when you wake up. Then try to wake up before they throw you into the mental hospital.

I expect I would get the same treatment here, if I tried to explain. Eyes hath not seen, neither ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of men....the things prepared from them the Love the Lord.