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I think there is an underlaying structure in each person which is not totally affected by one earth life. So, when a person leaves the physical, and enters fully the nonphysical, it could turn out that most, if not all, what this person did in the recent life, was bad, but this recent life is not the entireness of what this person is. The evil may be due to the circumstances of the recent life.
However, this is not negating the possibility of a personality structure in which simply no resonance for love is left, no "perceptors" for love. Then, this would be a lost soul, as described in Bruce's fourth book.
The question of a soul without attributes is an interesting one. A person is defined through his/her deeds, memories. However, there is this "I" function which primarily enables one to be a person, by relating perceptions and memories as "mine". This happens way before there is an intellectual person who can reflect about his/her own certain attributes, it is something babies and animals have, too, by simply having the ability to be affected, to feel joy and pain, as it requires this pre-personal and pre-worded "here", "this happens to ME"; otherwise there only would be perceptions without a perceiver. So, it might be possible to have a soul without attributes. Looking at experiences in meditation, and what others write about extraordinary states of mind, such as NDEs, and divine apparitions, it makes some sense. In the end, haven't we to detach from our memories? Aren't it our specifics, our personalities, which hinder us to go back to the source? When we assume the possibility of a melting with all that is, without the loss of the "me", it's only possible when we divide the "I- function" from the memories, so that we can melt into one being, with all our memories, and still being "I".
Spooky
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