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What is a soul?
    #7947929 - 01/28/08 09:33 PM (16 years, 4 days ago)

Reading a sentence that stated: "# Explain why, if the personality resides in the soul, things like drugs and brain damage can affect someone's personality."

Well, it's got me curious. What is the soul supposed to be?


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7948031 - 01/28/08 09:52 PM (16 years, 4 days ago)

Soul is a joint rolled in toilet paper

- Science of Dr. Funkenstein

:edit: Does personality reside in the soul?? Personality as in "ego"? Soul resides in that, but that does not reside in the True Self (Atman).


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7949129 - 01/29/08 02:55 AM (16 years, 4 days ago)

The soul is the experience of consciousness, the experience of being. That's how I would attempt to describe the word, I guess. :wink:


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7949177 - 01/29/08 03:36 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

mind is easier to find
unless you like R&B


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7949507 - 01/29/08 08:28 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

A soul is a flea circus.


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7949715 - 01/29/08 09:34 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

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Visionary Tools said:
Reading a sentence that stated: "# Explain why, if the personality resides in the soul, things like drugs and brain damage can affect someone's personality."

Well, it's got me curious. What is the soul supposed to be?




For me Soul is just another four letter word. There is nothing substantial as evidence for it. I think it's a way humans deal with their death anxiety. We often have so much egoic fear of disappearing like the rest of nature we create a belief in immortality to sooth ourselves.


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Edited by Icelander (01/29/08 09:35 AM)


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: fireworks_god]
    #7949756 - 01/29/08 09:49 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

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fireworks_god said:
The soul is the experience of consciousness, the experience of being.




That's how I view it. Whether this soul transitions into another body, I don't know, but for the description of my experience, here and now, I think it suits just fine.


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7949765 - 01/29/08 09:52 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

This is pretty much what I expected.

No one has a fucking clue what a soul is, but get really serious about it.


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7949768 - 01/29/08 09:52 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

:thumbup::lol:


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #7949769 - 01/29/08 09:53 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

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redgreenvines said:
mind is easier to find
unless you like R&B




:rofl2:

i couldn't imagine


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: deranger]
    #7953096 - 01/29/08 09:39 PM (16 years, 3 days ago)

i wish i could remember where i read the definition..

something along the lines of the soul not being a part of the mind body or consciousness, it is what is simply and has always been there. like the consciousness is the foundation of the house you build, but the air that is and has always been there is the soul


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7954114 - 01/30/08 12:33 AM (16 years, 3 days ago)

IMO a soul is infinite, eternal, "beingness", counsciousness, the part of you that isn't attached to you. It's a hard concept to try and explain. I don't think you can really condense what a soul is in a few words. I could talk spirits and souls forever because they are infinite, everlasting, not decaying, always there, limitless. Hope this helps, Peace.


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: Icelander]
    #7955463 - 01/30/08 01:04 PM (16 years, 2 days ago)

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Visionary Tools said:
Reading a sentence that stated: "# Explain why, if the personality resides in the soul, things like drugs and brain damage can affect someone's personality."

Well, it's got me curious. What is the soul supposed to be?




For me Soul is just another four letter word. There is nothing substantial as evidence for it. I think it's a way humans deal with their death anxiety. We often have so much egoic fear of disappearing like the rest of nature we create a belief in immortality to sooth ourselves.




word.

There is afterlife but not as who you were a as a human, humans seem to like the idea that once John smith is dead, part of John Smith is still alive, which is and isnt true, John Smith is dead and gone, but he lives on as what he was before he was John Smith and the energy he influenced keeps flowing.

We don't have separate eternal souls, only universal energy.

Thats what i beleive anyway...so basically while your here try and spread as much positive energy as possible, because once your gone you move onto a new form.


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: publicenemy1]
    #7955621 - 01/30/08 01:37 PM (16 years, 2 days ago)

That eternal part of our personality that has an even eternal purpose. But eternity does not mean unchanging.
:rastana:


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Re: What is a soul? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7955990 - 01/30/08 02:59 PM (16 years, 2 days ago)

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Reading a sentence that stated: "# Explain why, if the personality resides in the soul, things like drugs and brain damage can affect someone's personality."

Well, it's got me curious. What is the soul supposed to be?




From a biblical perspective, the soul is a composite of mind and body. Hebrew thought as described in the second line of the Shema says: "Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul and with all thy might." - Deuteronomy 6:5. From this reference, there is a tripartite division into roughly spirit [heart], mind [soul] and body [might]. This division is different in that soul and body are separate and here soul probably means mind. The Greek translation of psyche is either 'soul' or 'mind' but psyche is a 'lower' form of mind. A higher mind which is sometimes equated with 'spirit' is the word 'nous.'

The soul therefore is somewhat 'amphibious' as either belonging to the realm of the body or of the spirit. In either case, the soul is not substantial - it is not a substance but it is more like a reference to life processes that operate in more or less embodied aspects on a continuum. There are bodily processes and then, closely allied to the body are emotional processes and less bodily enjoined processes belong to thinking. Beyond thinking is pure awareness which belongs to spirit.

In the Kabbalistic glyph of the Tree of Life, the body is represented by the bottom-most sphere and the 'soul' is represented by the 'astral triangle' of the next three spheres above. They represent thinking, feeling and sexuality/unconscious. The next three spheres above the 'astral triangle' comprise the 'ethical triangle' and the realm of 'spirit.' It is represented by the central sphere in the Tree which is pure Witnessing awareness - the awareness to whom one's personality belongs as a kind of mask or veil over one's 'spirit.'



Christian definitions of the soul can vary from one era in Christian history to another, and from one theologian or school of theology to another. Christian treatments of the soul borrow from some of the Hebrew thought that contribted to the Kabbalistic scheme but moreso from Neo-Platonism, especially Plotinus. The map of the Tree of Life has found its way into Christianity, Judaism and various Hermetic philosophical schools (sometimes deemed 'occult' which merely means 'hidden'). The 'immortality of the soul' is NOT a Christian doctrine. Orthodox Christianity stresses "eternal life" which is the life of God (Who is alone eternal). Roughly, Latin Christianity implies 'salvation' from 'without' while Eastern Christianity speaks of theosis - divinization of one's soul from inner transformation.


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