in my books and blog posts i have presented compelling evidence for dualist, bidirectional interaction between the immaterial mind of man and of god and the material components of the neural synaptic networks, making possible the personal communion between ourselves and god. dallas willard speaks to this relationship:
“the issue, so far as the gospel . . . is concerned, is whether we are alive to god or dead to him. do we walk in an interactive relationship [Italics added] with him that constitutes a new kind of life, life ‘from above’? as the apostle john says in his first letter, ‘god has given undying life to us, and that life is in his son. those who have the son have life’ (1 john 5:11-12). . . . accordingly, the only description of eternal life found in the words we have from jesus is ‘this is eternal life, that they [his disciples] may know you, the only real god, and jesus the anointed, whom you have sent’ (john 17:3). this may sound to us like ‘mere head knowledge.’ but the biblical ‘know’ always refers to an intimate, personal, interactive relationship. . . . the eternal life of which jesus speaks is not knowledge about god but an intimately interactive relationship with him.”