Dana,Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 4:37 pmGood point ... Being curious as to Steiner's take on the ontic essence of these 'guides' (which I'm assuming are akin to so-called 'guardian spirits') that profess to be more like magnetic fields—which may simply imply that they are non-locally transcorporeal in nature, rather than individuated loci of Mind within a locus of form, regardless of any phenomenal attributes that are projected upon them, e.g. wings and halos—I checked out an excerpt from a Steiner Q&A (below), but it doesn't really address what that ontic essence is. Can anyone point to where Steiner specifically addresses this in his body of work? And what did he tell the French physicists?
I am thinking maybe you are non-local in nature, as you managed to quote and respond to my comment before it was posted
But, more seriously on that note, the spiritual beings of the higher heirarchies are not different in essence than you or I. They are further advanced in their evolutionary progression. There are certain spiritual influences of the modern age which attempt to thrust down all spiritual realities into the rigid intellectual abstractions of materialist mindset. A spiritual being who is working in alignment with our interests as we are preparing to evolve into the spiritual realms, according to Steiner, would never present themselves to us in the manner FB describes and say they are more like "magnetic fields" rather than actual living beings engaged in ideational activity just as we are. One could probably go to www.rsarchive.com, click on "lectures", randomly click on a lecture, and get something related to the nature of spiritual beings that verifies what I am saying.