Following Jesus
The Holy Spirit and How to Pray
Prayer here is contact between your spirit and the Father's spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Father's own spirit, and Jesus told you to ask the Father directly.
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Summary
He starts from the opening of the Bible: the Elohim are physical people, male and female, and humans are near enough to them that the text says the two can have children. The Father has a body and a spirit, and so does Jesus, because humans are made in that image. Much of what follows is marked as experience. You feel a stare, you think of someone just before they reach you, a parent feels a child die far away, and a sealed jar of ferrofluid is the picture of a field that extends past the body and can join another.
He says consciousness is not produced by the brain and that memory traces have never been found there. Jesus identifies the Holy Spirit as the Father's spirit, calls the Father holy in Matthew 6, and says the advocate from the Father will remind you of what He said, which is also how Jesus Himself learned it. Splitting Father and Spirit into two people would split Jesus the same way, so Matthew 28 is read as two baptisms, the trinity as a later imposition, and Psalm 82 as a council that outside works describe as twelve.
Matthew 6 and Luke 11 are read as protection from Yhwh: the name kept holy, His Kingdom coming, daily bread, forgiveness, and not being led into a test. You ask the Father for His Spirit in Jesus' name, because Jesus said to ask that way in John 14 and John 15. The practice is to address Abba, say what is happening or groan it without words, then be quiet and stay, which he calls telepathy. The sample prayer asks the Father to clear any impostor spirit, lift the veil, fill you, and remind you what Jesus taught the disciples.
