So I'm writing a paper about a book (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence) and I'm at a point in the paper where I need to define what role the soul plays in relation to human interaciton with other humans. And I don't really have the slightest idea what I've gotten myself into. So I decided to ask you guys/girls for some help. So in short:

What is the role of the soul with regards to human interaction/relationships?

Heh.

I traded my soul for a George Foreman Grill.

"Knock out the fat!" http://www.totse.com/bbs/mad.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/mad.gif)

quote:Originally posted by Elephantitis Man:

I traded my soul for a George Foreman Grill.

"Knock out the fat!" http://www.totse.com/bbs/mad.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/mad.gif)

It's a lean mean fat reducing grilling machine.

If it's about the soul's purpose in relation to other souls, I dunno what to tell you.

It's just people interact. The soul is contained in these people. Those who believe it as such.. believe it as such. Those who don't still contain the souls and take part in its interaction with others' (if the soul is indeed there).

Man and woman are two parts of one soul. True love is when a man and woman are attracted to each other in every way possible, and their souls unite.

It sounds lame, but it's true. Ask a Sufi or a Kabbalist. And i mean REAL Kabbalist, not that shitty Hollywood Kabbalah.

a horse ate a radish.

quote:Originally posted by Loc Dogg:

when a man and woman are attracted to each other in every way possible

Like... Siamese twins?

According to the New Gospel, "your soul (subconscious, id, spirit, past, etc.) is the sum total of every feeling you're ever created (had)."

According to the New Paradigm, "your soul" is a misnomer, as the real you IS "soul," defined as a localized manifestation of the universal force/unified field/kingdom of God.

According to the shamanic paradigm, one's soul is one's vital energy, some or all of which may be lost, and which a shaman may recover.

"Conversation"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



God and I in space alone ...

and nobody else in view ...

"And where are all the people,

Oh Lord" I said,

"the earth below

and the sky overhead

and the dead that I once knew?"

"That was a dream," God smiled

and said: "The dream that seemed to

be true; there were no people

living or dead; there was no earth,

and no sky overhead,

there was only myself in you."

"Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,

"meeting you here in this way?

For I have sinned, I know full well

and is there heaven and is there hell,

and is this Judgement Day?"

"Nay, those were but dreams"

the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.

There are no such things as fear and sin;

there is no you ... you never have been.

There is nothing at all but me."

The bit of me that the christians I accidentally surrounded myself with believe will burn in hell forever if I don't let that pretentious fool with a messianic complex who ornamented a bisected power pole into my heart.

I usually define a soul as an electric field created by your nervous system, and on the off chance that there is a fiery pit it will be cast into, I'd rather that than forced interaction between myself and christians for all eternity.

What's to make you believe there is a soul? There is no "ghost in the machine" - we're all just matter. You can't test, quantify, weigh or reproduce a "soul." It's not scientifically valid.

Essentially, the soul may be a non-physical quality about your body while incarnate (physical, on earth) an essence that contains both your physical bodies sensations and actions/movements through life, along with every thought and memory you've ever had and basically every conscious aware experience you've been in.

Supposedly during the time incarnate on earth, you have the conscious body in which you are more inclined to believe in the living breathing hunk of bio-mass you're inside and around, and after incarnate time, you are inclined to be aware of the energy body that exists without the physical body. The energy being the containment of every single experience your body has had, and every other human body experience it stems from. As a soul being a connection to the body, from one present moment of "now" in time, to everysingle "now" moment that has ever existed for you.

When you release, you are able to see not (sometimes on earth, if it is right) only every single "now" that has existed within that body, but every single "now" that has existed within every other body that you've had. Meaning if your energy signature, which is represented through our pattern of emotions, thoughts, beliefs and actions, has ever existed in another body then it's all being added at the time to your self-awareness which will cease at a certain point, for each body individually, yet collectively to an over-awareness which holds more than one experience. Transcends time and space as we know it, and connects many bodies or points as lives directly an non-locally to each other.

Its your Mo-Jo

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