I am a spirit placed in a physical body from several months into the gestation cycle. The problem is that birth severs in most, this knowledge. Not only is this the case but religions really don't want you to know that the first place you should look for the Temple is basically you.
The sages, prophets, and gurus, spiritual teachers in the past knew this and I have used many Western-based insights and quotes to mirror that which I know.
I know who and what I am as compared to the multitudes that don't.
Don't forget you are the Temple of God, not the Church you've been told is.
As Christ said Go into your closet" (vessel, you) "and pray."