Living in the Shadow of Reality : WestBow Press : 9781664279599 : 1664279598 : 18 Dec 2022 : Westerners often make the mistake of discounting the spiritual aspects of life as "not real", imaginary, a mere reflection of what is experienced in the "real world" (by which they usually mean, the physical world that we experience with our five senses). Many claim that the concept of angels and demons are creations of our imagination, that God or the gods of other religions are mere projections that we create for ourselves. The argument goes like this: Humans look at physical reality and then create/imagine a shadow world, the spirit world, based upon our experience of 'real life'. But what if the opposite is true? What if what we are experiencing with our five senses is really just a reflection in a pond? What if the "real" begins with the spiritual and then is reflected into the physical? If this hypothesis is true, if indeed what we see happening around us in the physical world begins i