{"id":1420,"date":"2025-11-14T17:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:02:27","slug":"speculations-on-the-nature-of-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/speculations-on-the-nature-of-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculations on the Nature of Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nature-of-Spirit.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1421\" style=\"width:670px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nature-of-Spirit.png 575w, https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nature-of-Spirit-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>We are not human beings having a spiritual experience;<br>we are spiritual beings having a human experience.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file aligncenter\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-52e6013a-8033-4c37-9780-387096bcbe60\" href=\"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Speculations-on-the-Nature-of-Spirit.pdf\">Speculations on the Nature of Spirit<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Speculations-on-the-Nature-of-Spirit.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-52e6013a-8033-4c37-9780-387096bcbe60\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not human beings having a spiritual experience;we are spiritual beings having a human experience. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardsorensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}