The soul

The sense of being that you can feel within yourself.

@Morgan, i share your viewpoint. Yes, there is something animating this bag of cells and our bodies are kinda like the gloves a scientist would use in a nuclear test chamber.

I imagine every one of us is the same soul/nuclear scientist, inhabiting different bodies/gloves…crazy?

The soul is a subject most philosophers fail at proving and the poets succeed. I look at the two as different mediums for the expresion of the same feelings of wonder or astonishment.

There are new avenues of pursuit for the answer to this agelong questions. Inquisitive minds shall love what the Urantia Book has to say about this. May I add, inquisitive and open, minds….
Point your browser to:

http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-111-adjuster-and-soul

We are all souls having an experience of the body. It is the origin. Where everything comes from. It is pure consciousness. Our souls are fragments of larger souls, different aspects of one larger soul, which eventually leads to one consciousness in which we all were, are and ever will be.

I like the analogy, but I doubt there is something that is ‘our consciousness’, because it posits something behind or above that is the owner of it. There is just consciousness.

Maybe Earth is alive and animates every living thing. We can communicate wirelessly over the internet… Who’s to say that we aren’t plugged into some kind of Earthbrain/Consciousness.

Maybe that is responsible for sleep cycles. One part of the planet going to sleep while the other resumes for work everyday, pure rhythm.

Maybe we are the visible growth on Earth the organism…but again, i get crazy sometimes.

I watched a vid on youtube the other day (I’m pretty sure it was a link on another thread). It explained that one cannot describe ‘I’, one can only describe the things that make up ‘I’.

E.g. You are a human being, you follow a certain faith, you have a certain career, you are interested in a sport or an art. These things contribute to your personality. But what are you? What do you speak of when you refer to ‘I’.

There are videos that probably explain it better. My point is, could that be the answer to the soul? Something that we cannot comprehend, that part of us that it ‘I’.

@Nikola

In what way exactly? Is it not so that you ingest a ‘material’ thing and that manifests as consciousness? Where does the one begin and the other end?

In my opinion, they are just two sides of the same coin. And the coin is so thin, it doesn’t exist.

It seems to me that people who are not really into music don’t bother with the existence of the soul. Not that it’s really important. It may be the same thing with different words.

“The soul is a circle” -Plato
The soul is the circle which contains our entire consciousness and how far it can stretch. Most of this is hidden from us on a daily basis because we focus too much on our senses.

Here’s what soul is. The most common reaction to this is “What a big soul in such a little body.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXJPld9lUjI

If someone was barely interested in Gandhi, and how many people he changed for their own good, you should probably know that “Mahatma is an Indian word meaning Great Soul. This is the title of respect.”

What it means to me specifically is a complete expression of the heart, for an idea of the present which excludes me.