Book excerpt: Many people do not believe in the existence of an unseen realm and others try to operate in it yet do not understand it. In order to understand spiritual realms, we must understand realms of authority. Though there are many kinds of authority, spiritual authority is the greatest. If our authority in Christ is by the Spirit, it cannot be determined by a person's gender or race; there is no distinction between them in the spirit. According to the Scripture in 1 Corinthians 2:4-15, spiritual things must be spiritually discerned! Intellect, science or anything that we can relate to in the natural will only distort man's view of what is going on in the spirit realm; we discern things spiritually by knowing them through our spirit man and not through our natural man.