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Imagine that you are looking at two plants (see the pictures above).  One you water and leave in the sun.  The other receives nothing but light.  Consequently, one plant decays and the other blooms.  These two events occur because one  organism receives the necessary nutrients for sustained physical life and the other does not.  Both plants need the same things and the difference in their outcome owes to the receipt, and the absence, of those necessary physical ingredients. 

The physical form is impacted by genetics and the presence or absence of necessary nutrients, such as water, sunlight, and air.  What makes a plant live, grow, diversify, and bloom is Life Force.  That Life Force connects the two plants even if it looks like they are separate or if their physical properties seem to act alone.  

Reality is a multiverse.  What distinguishes physical reality from the Mind of God in which ideas have their being depends on the lens of the perceiver.  Things that we can see and touch have physical dimensions; ideas in the Mind of God do not have all of these aspects.  Ideas are separate entities that can pass through each other without "touching" even if they exist in the same space as a physical object. 

In the example above, both plants are connected by the same Life Force.  In fact, they are both composed of Life Force; it condensed into two separate places to form the structures of the plants.  As Life Force gets dense, it gains additional properties, such as a three-dimensional shape, the biochemical energy engine, physical connections, mass, color, size, and many other perceptible aspects.  The decay of the unwatered plant means its physical needs were not met not the absence of Life Force.  The Life Force respects the needs of the body though it can overcome these requirements in some circumstances. 

What gives rise to separate blooms in nature is one Life Force with varying levels of density and separate sustaining physical and chemical properties for each organism.  To our minds, it may seem as if there are separate life forces for every physical entity but at a higher level, that is not the only truth.  The way we perceive ourselves and the bodies of other life forms determines what we see of Life Force.  In fact, there is only one Life Force manifested through multiple forms including our own.

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