Abstract
There are two purposes for this chapter: (1) defend an argument for God from consciousness (hereafter, AC) and (2) provide a positive account of what it means for God to be a spirit/soul and defend this account against incoherency claims based on a purely via negativa. To accomplish these purposes, I address them in order. Regarding AC, I lay out important preliminary considerations, state three versions of AC and defend the premises of the deductive version, followed by a critique of the two dominant rivals to AC-naturalistic emergence and panpsychism. Regarding the presentation of God as a spirit, I defend the positive understanding of “spirit,” followed by a critique of the claim that since “spirit” must be understood in purely negative terms, it is explanatorily impotent or, worse, incoherent.
