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Riffing off Eliezer on consciousness, here is (my alter-ego) Ramone on spirituality:
We are souls who know we are spiritual. Since we can conceive of mere non-soul "animals," physical bodies without spirit, spirituality must be a non-physical "something more." (Until someone proves this is not logically possible, we assume it is.) We call this something more "God", or at least a part of God. So our full selves, which we call a "soul", contains both a God-part and an animal-part.
We know God is real and that we are not animals. Skeptics ask: how do we know? Our God-part, being God and spirit, can directly see God and that it is spiritual. What could be simpler? But skeptics persist; they correctly note that it may well be that the spiritual, or God, part of our soul has no causal influence on the body, or animal, part of our soul. If so, they wonder, how could our animal-parts know about God? Their mistake is to think that animals "know" anything – clearly only souls know anything. We obviously use words like "know" and "think" to refer only to high noble things, not base lowly things; there is only a superficial analogy between signal processing in animal bodies and the what spiritual souls know or think.
But base skeptics persist with their base analogy, asking how our animal parts can process signals to see they are part of a soul with a spiritual part? After all, skeptics sneer, if spirits have no causal influence on bodies, and if in some alternate evil universe our bodies were in fact not parts of souls but lone animals, would not those bodies process the same signals the same way? If so, would they not then incorrectly "think", with their animal pseudo-thoughts, that they were part of a soul? Yes, such imagined abominations could have abominable pseudo-thoughts, but since in our actual universe we actually are spiritual souls, why is it so strange that we actually think that we are what we in fact are?
To belabor the obvious, Ramone’s God argument is intended to mirror Chalmer’s qualia argument. Accept both or neither, or show the difference. (FYI, Chalmers and I exchanged about twenty emails last fall.)
Ramone on Knowing God
Miriam: How is it you've come to those views? Why do you believe that?
For that matter, what do you mean, precisely, by an "energy fingerprint"? (For that matter, when you say "energy", are you talking about the same sort of thing a physicist things of when they use the word, or are you using the word in a different way?)
What do you mean by "vibrations of energy"? How do different frequencies "align one to a physical dimension"? (heck, what does that even mean?) (I don't mean to ask for a crude "imagine tuning a radio" analogy, I'm also asking for what's "under" the analogy, what's actually meant)
What, precisely, is a "static vibration barcode", and how is it that such a thing can "transcend all dimensions" (What do you mean by that, anyways?) and how does that cause "essence of self awareness of life" to form?
Let's start with those questions for now.
I have a saying that I express at times: "The only difference between man and animal is the form that houses the spirit".
Each spirit has an energy fingerprint unique to itself, manifesting in body in order to realize life, with a mind in which to experience it. In life, each spirit experiences the game of life by the limitation of the host body. The lack of fingers and thumbs, and upward bi-pedal motion, restricts many animals from evolving the ability to create, construct, manufacture. Also, each animal according to each evolutionary stage of his brain's ability to learn and adapt. Each human, animal, organic matter, inorganic matter, and all physical forms are composed of vibrations of energy in different frequencies aligning to this physical dimension. Each form has a specific vibration aligning to its particular form and this physical dimension. Each spirit also has a static vibration barcode unique to self which can transcend all dimensions and can bring the essense of self awareness of life to form.
Man was made in the image of God....and so is everything else in existence. So God brought forward all that is from the image of its own vision, relinquishing boredom for a quest in a game of life.
All that is are parts of the consciousness of God. God experiencing life through its many forms of creations. God giving each of his parts/spirit amnesia (free choice) in order to learn and experience a game of life.
We are all the collective consciousness of the one.
The above are my views.