What is the difference between your astral body and your soul?
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I believe it is one in the same.  It's like Toe-May-Toe vs Toe-MAH-Toe.  No difference, just what you prefer to call it.  I think more of the old school belief system calls it a soul. To call it your astral body is to view the soul with a more energetic anatomy....take away the body, and you have an energy "tube", complete with Chakras and Nadis...this is our core.  This tube and Nadis (energy lines of force) is what connects us to "All That Is"
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A broken spirit is much much harder to repair than anything physical in us that's broken.  Introspection is the key which leads to awareness and consciousness on a deeper level.  Find out what your soul is looking for and what brings you true joy.  If this means going on a retreat to discover more of yourself, then do it.  It is usually in the silence that we find out what our spirit needs.
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a soul is an energy with a concience. \nthe human brain is born with latent(sleeping) memories.\n\nit is possible to make these latent memories come alive, but only in a sub concious state.\n\nbut the level of time and patient that requires......i dun think it's really that imp to know wat u were..try know wat u are now.......caus eas a fact.99.99% of the people really dun know who they are...................do u ??\n\ntry keep your mind away from this........occult and metamorphosis is not child's play...you can have serious problems if you meddle with the past. belive me.i have done the thing.\n\nit isn't worth spoiling your present to know the past........and  as for the future.well..........u can only be told wat can happen........not wat will.............destiny.man makes.............but fate he cannot escape from.\n\nbe happy be positive, discover youself..........but dun meddle with your soul.belive me.....do not try the occult like i did..........i did and now i can't get out...plz heed!
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Well, the "in between" are still dead, but yes, there are souls that don't know they're dead.  This happens primarily when a person dies a tragic death, e.g. in an accident.  Sometimes, when they don't want to go to the Light, because they feel they have something to take care of, they will also be Earth-bound.\nIt has been reported that on occasion, a spirit could drain a person's energy, but that is also true for the living.\nSpirits see both, dead and alive.  You can't guarantee anything, including what you will WILL yourself to do after your body dies.
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good question . \n the soul is the real self and not the body the body is like a dress . well what u can do is u can stand in frot of a mirror  and ask yourself where is my hand then lift ur hand and tell ur self this is my hand . then ask urself which is my leg ten show ur leg to ur self  like wise do it for all your body parts . \nso what do u get : \n1) this is My hand . \n2) this is My head . \n3) this is My leg .\n4) this is My Nose.\n-\n-\n-\nso u see everywhere u get "My leg ', My head" and so on .\nif everything is yours as you are saying "my" my"  so when i ask u then you point to yourself where are you in that body then where do u point . \nyou cannot point  but that you the real self is there within your body thats yourself and actually subconciously we all know it but still we dont accept . just like the way we  knao in the deapth of our heart we know God is there and he is our best friend but still we dont accept . \n\nif u want to know more u can always mail me directly .
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when our physical self dies, the soul leaves and escapes into the universe, it lingers nearby its family till the time it feels that all is going on well after its departure from the body of the deceased, then it awaits its return in the form of a new born near GOD, where it is judged for its past karma and based upon it assigned a new body to come back to the world and spread the glory of GOD.
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The soul never dies.  The Greek word translated into "souls" below actually stands for "persons."  The soul is not a proven body part.  It is spiritual belief.\n\nNow the answer:  With God time is irrelevant.  The dead body lies in the grave.  The soul is in limbo, waiting for Judgment Day.  Someday there will be a resurrection into new bodies, needing no raiment nor sustenance.  Souls will enter Heaven or  Hell according to judgment of deeds while the body was alive.
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Soul is the intelligence which is beyond the mind. It is of course non-material.\n\nOur thoughts keep it improsoned during life because instead of we controlling our thoughts, our thoughts control us.\n\nTo free the soul, we need to watch our thoughts for what they are. Life is now and that is were you will find the soul if your mind is free of thoughts.
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i have found such to be true...  but that the soul doesn't have to just jump right back in to another body.  it can live in the astral realms for a time first, if it so wishes.\n\nmost religions will explain this with philosophical statements and questions rather than cold, scientific facts.  truly, this is a quest you must follow for yourself.  if you need help, i suggest checking out some of the teachings of buddhism.  you don't have to believe in them if you don't want to, but comparing texts often gives you a fine base from which you can draw your own personal conclusions.\n\ni frequent the y-messenger chat rooms under the name Suhrim, and only that name.  i wrote a paper on my personal theories regarding this (too long to cut and paste into here).  if you want, you can find me in the paganism rooms.. usually the higher numbers.. about once a week.  if you wish, i can then cut and paste that paper into the pm window.  :)
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I Am the Soul that inhabits a human body. I am made of the energy of God. While in the body I use the physical sense but I am also able to use other senses. How is it when you think of a song in your head you can actually hear it and not be using your physical ears? How is it you can picture a yellow bus in your head and not be using your physical eyes? How is it you can walk into a room where someone is angry and feel it before actually physically finding out? These are extra senses that can be developed into amazing gifts, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience. Any way I believe that these abilities can be achieved when one lives as the Soul instead of living as the body that has a soul.\nLove & Light
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There are plenty of documented cases or Astral Projection and OBE (Outer Body Experiences).  Astral Projection is a method of separating the physical self from the Astral Self (Spritual Self)  This can be acheived either by meditation with breathing techniques and other ways including injesting certain herbs.  \n\nOBE is usually the separating of the astral unintentionally.  This happened to my mother in law while going through emergency surgery after the birth of her first child.  SHe could look down at herself and see herself but she said she had no connection to her body and didn't want to go back until she saw the baby.
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i believe that you are still yourself with out your human body.  your body either gets burned or buried in the ground.  Your soul on the other hand is either taking to Heaven or Hell.  If you go to heaven the Lord is going to give you a new heavnly body, if you go to hell, i don't know what satan will do to ya.  I hope i neaver find out.  anyway, this is just what i believe, you have to decide for youself.
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From the Bible: We are composed of Three Body; Spirit, Soul and Body.\n\nYou are the Soul!\nand you can consciously communicate to God with your spirit.\n\nYou are not the body (physical)\nSoul are interpenetrating the body.\nSoul has to be develop, we must!\nby developing your character, listening to the inner voice.\n\nLearn Meditation..\n\nIf you like learn Pranic Healing. You will know lot of things.. that's a very good tip already!
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Your "soul" does not enter the body at conception. You are a being of light before you become a human being, therefore evolutioning with time, thru every life pattern or experienced existence in the physical body.\nWhich means that your "soul" is already in existence  before physical conception.....
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According to most religions, the soul is a gas like material that leaves your body when you die. if so, than I know what my soul feels like, since it leaves my body quite often, especially after I eat certain foods.
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In vedic literature you can find good information about it:\n\n We (the spirit souls) have two material bodies: the subtle and the gross. The gross material body is the one that we always see, it consists of gross material elements. within the gross body there is the subtle body, which consists of subtle material elements (namely: mind, intelligence, and false ego). The spirit soul (what we really are) is situated in the soutle body. \n At the time of death, the spirit soul leaves the gross body, but not the subtle one. The subtle body is the carrier of the spirit soul from a gross body to another. So we change our gross body at the time of death, but remain in the same subtle body.\n\n Sometimes, at the time of death, the soul will not be transfered to a new gross body. This can be because:\n\n1- That person has commited suiside, so should wait the remaining years of his/her predefined lifetime without a gross body.\n\n2- The person has a very strong attachement to his material belongings, like house or children, or spouse, so refuses to leave the place he lived. (This is the case you can see in "The Ghost" movie).\n\n3- ... (I don't know other causes)\n\n\n This causes that soul to remain in the subtle body for some time. This is what we call a ghost. They have a really painfull life, because they can not perform any action, but have desires to act.\n\n In the vedas (and most religions also) there are some prescribed duties (named Shradha) for the son to do for his forefathers to help them rescue from such suffering and continue their path of rebirth.
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I have a soul and a body.\nAfter death, I will keep only my soul.