jademarlin26 said:Is that so? Perhaps you can attempt to shoehorn that fantasy into the period when a child is too young to articulate anything, leaving you free to believe whatever conveniently fits your personal "philosophy."
Once you impose an identity and language upon them—essentially conditioning them for life—they lose touch with objective reality. I am not suggesting this conditioning isn't necessary. It is simply a fact that children, much like adults, invent stories.
Why on earth would angels be just "fantasy"?
It’s actually a perfectly logical assumption—honestly, it’s a legitimate scientific hypothesis to suggest that angels really exist.
1) Every major religion on the planet bears witness to them. We have accounts that align almost perfectly, even though they were recorded independently and "spontaneously" across different cultures.
2) It is highly probable that intelligent beings exist whose consciousness isn't tied to a material, neurological carrier.
I don't see any valid reason to deny the existence of conscious intelligences that lack a physical body.
For instance, we recognize different types of minds—like flies or even plants—that process information using non-human brain structures.
Humans are just one specific case where consciousness has taken on a sensory, biological form.
Most of us look at a dog and think it's somehow "lesser" than us, probably because it doesn't know anything about quantum physics.😁
But maybe a creature like a dog possesses a cosmic perspective where it is whole, and we are the ones who are incomplete.
After all, our concept of a "bone" is completely different from how a dog experiences it.🙂
Likewise, our coarse, everyday matter might seem totally unreal to beings made of finer substance.
There is no way for us to prove this, just like there is no way to definitively prove whether four dimensions truly exist.
Space and time are just phenomena through which we perceive distorted images of ideas. Our measurements of space and time are basically just social constructs, and they likely vary wildly between different types of beings.
There is clearly a gap between our senses and how they correspond to consciousness. Any theory needs a medium to bridge matter and spirit, much like how physicists once needed the "ether" to explain how vibrations travel.
3) Countless people have reported encounters with angels well into the 20th century.😲
4) Take Paulo Coelho, for example, in his book Valkyrie 5.
5) Or the famous Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox in their book Angel Physics.
My takeaway:
The person claiming angels are just a fantasy is probably the one doing the fantasizing.😉
And one thing is certain: they've definitely never met one themselves.🙂
