What follows are my recent thoughts on epistemology and the psychology of the human spirit—to be refined and expanded later.

To be a spiritual being is to have a spiritual cognizance of God’s presence and of morality—both are expressions of the same fact. Unlike angels, humans have their minds—heads—buried in this fallen world similar to the Matrix; but their spirits are cognizant of God’s presence and of right from wrong. Spiritual cognizance for the angels—like God—is synonymous with their normal thinking. But for humans, the mind encompasses both the spirit and the brain with its developing thought patterns and imperfect accumulated knowledge. This necessarily renders spiritual cognizance in humans as a foundational level below consciousness that is the fountain of higher level thoughts and actions, whether rebellion, fear, worship, joy, guilt, love, etc, without actually breaking into the consciousness except under extremes such as crisis.