It’s tricky, but you can use logic to understand it. It’s called self-enquiry and you can find a bunch of people online that can guide you through the process. Generally it is understood through meditation, which gives direct experience that you can use to answer the various questions that arise.
Essentially, you realize that since you watch thoughts come and go, you are not the thoughts in your mind. Since you are aware of feelings and those come and go, you aren’t your feelings either. Since you can be aware of what you believe and beliefs change, you aren’t what you believe. Since you are aware of your personality and that changes over time and depends on circumstance, you aren’t your personality either. Since you are aware of time and it passes, you are beyond time. Whatever you can be aware of, you aren’t that. You are what witnesses all those things. What you really are is the awareness itself. Being without a body, it is without form. It is essentially spirit.
It is located “here”. In reality there is nowhere but “here”. There is nowhere you can go where it is not because it is you. You bring your awareness wherever you go.
Where your awareness is. It is here. Wherever you go, when you get “there”, it becomes “here”. In reality, there is no such thing as there. “There” can’t be experienced. Only here exists. Your awareness is always here.
The word “spirit” is a human construct. Words are never an adequate representation of reality. The concept of spirit is a broad term but what i am describing needs no imagining or words. Your brother sounds really cool, though. He is right about just knowing it. Everything I say is just conjecture without the experience to base it off of. Find a good guru like Adyashanti or Mooji and do some of their meditations. See what you think. At the very least it will bring you a little peace.
That isn’t the kind of spirit I’m referring to, but I get it. The problem is that the word spirit refers to an ethereal concept that can generally only exist as a thought in the mind. No matter what it is only an idea. An imagining. There is no way to communicate something that can only be directly experienced with words that are the product of imagination. What I am getting at needs no imagination. It simply is and always has been. It is found when the mind is set aside. Anyway, I don’t want to upset anymore people so I’ll stop. Your brother sounds like he wants to help, but I’d worry too. Does he also have sz?
Oh im not upset at all. I was just chatting about it.
My brother doesnt have sz but he hears ‘gods’ voice audibly.
Besides that hes actually very normal.
Normies can actually have auditory hallucinations too.
Yeah I used to like this girl who said she had bipolar disorder and said she heard voices. Now I’m pretty sure she was schizophrenic but embarrassed of it. I think hearing voices is one of those clear indicators of sz. What does he say god says to him?
It’s doable,a lot of hard self work but it can be done with that mindset. I am going that way with it, it’s been 5 years since I was commited and I’m miles away from where I was.