Reviewing 2021, Part 2: The Importance of the Question: Why Do We Exist?

Reviewing 2021, Part 2: The Importance of the Question: Why Do We Exist?
Can the answer to why creation exists be simply because it is good? “Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, between 1800 and 1829, by Peter Wenzel. Public Domain
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Instead of focusing on our exercise or diet to increase our well-being, important as these are, what if we were to start at the top end and focus on our spiritual well-being. What would that look like?

In part 1 of this article, we considered how so-called business posts on LinkedIn in 2021 had become much more personal in nature, specifically relating to mental health problems, and how instead of people working at the top end of their nature—that is, the spiritual—often they were seeking to solve their issues at the lower end, which is the physical. The four levels of human nature are physical–doing (body), emotional–feeling (emotions), mental–thinking (mind), and spiritual–knowing/being (spirit).
James Sale
James Sale
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James Sale has had over 50 books published, most recently, "Gods, Heroes and Us" (The Bruges Group, 2025). He has been nominated for the 2022 poetry Pushcart Prize, and won first prize in The Society of Classical Poets 2017 annual competition, performing in New York in 2019. His most recent poetry collection is “DoorWay.” For more information about the author, and about his Dante project, visit EnglishCantos.home.blog
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