From your own experiences, and your use of the word "soul" it seems to me "soul" means feelings and knowledge without a body. This would imply you can't perceive another soul (your soul here, another soul over there), you only could melt with another soul, but then it won't be an other soul anymore.

Spooky

I don't think of the soul or my soul to be separate from me. I am my soul and it is me. You don't become the soul in death. You simply shed and transform. Is the caterpillar really separate from the butterfly?

Hi

Spooky, you said "....you only could melt with
another soul, but then it won't be an other soul
anymore. "
Since we have read about and perhaps experienced these 'soul melds,' we can ask 'what is the potential (or purpose?) of a soul
that can blend with another and become something else? Does it become less, or more, than when it stands alone?

Bets

Bets wrote:
"Since we have read about and perhaps experienced these 'soul melds,' we can ask 'what is the potential (or purpose?) of a soul
that can blend with another and become something else? Does it become less, or more, than when it stands alone?"

It seems like the term "soul" only has a meaning when it's seen in opposition to "body". The difficulty now is, when we focus on the soul, what it is, we come in calamities as without it's opposite term it seems to vanish somehow. When we think of a "pure" soul, it's difficult to find words which can describe it, words as "less" or "more" are so attached to matter and spatial extension. I even guess that when we actually talk about a pure soul, there would be only one of it. It seems the less pure a soul is in the sense of a higher relationship to a body/matter, the higher is it's locality, the lower it's radius of connectedness. The lowest stadium would be like a total shutdown, a total inwardness.

Beau wrote:
"No future, no past ...only NOW."
Well, the past isn't anymore, and the future isn't yet. The future even will never come. As when it's there, it's the present. So, there is no past, but only memories; to memorize something is a process within the present. As well as having prospects, too, is something within the present. "The past" and "the future" seem to be noun forms of such verbs as "memorize" and "prospect", and these noun forms suggest that it is "there" somehow.

Spooky

spooky2 wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2010 at 8:22pm:


A stadium with all the "characters" you have ever been might be an incredibly descriptive view of who you are, who your soul is,  in a figurative sense...I am always amazed at the differing variety and ways a simple question can be answered...especially by those who know more what we are asking than we do...that is absolutely fantastic, Spooky.

I think you are right in that perceiving a body may be all that we can see, while a soul, which infuses the body, is not visible to our human senses.

Alan McDougall

The Soul in relation to the Cosmic Mind by Alan McDougall

The brain is not the soul of mind, it is the hard drive, the processor of your mortal body. The mind download constantly onto the brain right up to death and a little beyond and that is why some of us remember events from a near death experience

The “the Soul” personalized is an infinitesimal part of God in man. Just as a drop of water from the ocean has all the ingredients in the ocean, this “the Soul” has all the powers of God.

However, just as a drop of water from the ocean does not make up the ocean, the “the Soul” of one person does not make up God’s “the Soul”. All the drops joined together become the ocean; all the “the Soul’s in the universe together make up God’s Cosmic Soul”.

The Soul” is the source of all happiness, all misery, health, and disease, abundance and lack, riches and poverty, joy and sorrow. As the greatest

Our “Soul” is a microcosm and creates the macrocosm universe and more until it all consolidates into the godhead.

If you experience these things then you have an eternal soul, do you think a state of soullessness emptiness exists in you?

If you do you must and would die. By that I mean your physical body will die, because it is your soul or mind that sustains it as one harmonious organism

Like a laser beam, “the Soul” can focus its attention on the smallest atom or see the whole universe as if it is a speck. “The Soul” can become part of the environment and embrace the entire cosmos.

I know this is true, because when I died during my NDE I became god for a few wonderful inexplicable moments outside of linear time and space.

The speed of thought is more than the speed of light. In a millisecond, “the Soul” can reach the farthest galaxy, billions of light years away.

It is instantaneous and unlimited by space or time. For example, the precocious genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart said that he could hear a musical work as a single event and not successively.

What is thought what consciousness is??

What “the Soul” is and where it is situated has been debated for centuries. Rarely two philosophers agree on one definition or location for “the Soul”.

Rene Descartes, French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician said that there is a total and absolute distinction between mental and material substance and that “the Soul” he said situated in the pineal gland. I disagree the soul is a quantum energy field hovering around our body, especially the head area near the brain and many see it as an aura

“The Soul” is non material and cannot become part of a material such as the brain, pineal gland or amygdala.

We can go through every nerve cell, analyze electrochemically, spectroscopically, mass-photographically, electronically, and, using all known tests, we will not find any indication of “the Soul”.

There is no single location for the “the Soul”. The human “the Soul” is distributed throughout the human body and its environment.

Every cell has its own “the Soul” and has the ability to function independently or jointly with all the cells of the body.

For example, a neuron is capable of deciding whether it will transmit information to another nerve cell and, if it will, to which one among the thousands of cells with which it is in contact.

Similarly, endocrine cells decide whether they will respond to a demand for a particular enzyme by cells in another far corner of the body.

Even sponge cells exhibit a similar capacity of awareness. When a piece of sponge is ground up and individual cells are suspended in solution, they will come together and become a complete sponge within a few hours.

This indicates that each cell has a “Soul” of its own to decide to combine with another sponge cell and with which of the thousands of cells floating in solution.

Just as each of the thousand pieces of a splintered mirror will show the same reflection of an object as the whole mirror, each cell reflects our “the Soul” and each cell in the universe we humans etc, reflects the Universal Soul called by us as God

By Alan McDougall

I like your initial description here on the thread, Usetawuz. It is a pretty clear view of some states I have entered in which I accessed a series of perspectives and even emotions which I had no idea I was capable of experiencing. There is a 'bigness' to our being and our 'feelings' which is rarely experienced when concentrating on one aspect of the material world, which we are often doing. There is a hugeness and a lovingness and absolute 'forgiveness' which this larger 'being' expresses, and an understanding which is beyond any petty version of our smaller truths. Of this I am sure. This 'being' is capable of understanding the smallest of our experiences and putting them in context within a time 'frame' which corresponds to our ability to understand. Deep meditation is different from a 'dream' in that emotions are clarified for us, rather than misunderstood or 'acted' upon. We have 'bigger' emotions which we can use to motivate us toward healing the planet because we all have within us the capacity to 'care' far beyond what we see or describe as our everyday lives and 'selves'. That is my view.