I *think* we have a lot of control through choice. It's like a choose your own adventure story book. Same story but different choices lead to different outcomes. Everything has a cause, doesn't remove that you can do with it what you choose. Your choices are not just a result of cause, is the message I see in my life.

I don't know, but I am unsure why people separate physical from spiritual. I don't know why they cannot be one. One with many parts, noy even parts just different veiws.. through our eyes. The physical word it pretty amazing. The dimensions to it that we don't even grasp, that we dont even see but we are still in it either way. Why do we need the physical to be separate from spiritual or mind?

Thats just how I see it Secretum. I am glad you are searching for your own understandings. I was also raised in a heavy christian home. Sometimes you need to reevaluate and take your own jouney. Often our beliefs will change over time.. I think the more you search the more they will change. I like to leave doors open, because none of know. We can speculate and formulate, concluding is much harder.