Is consiousness our soul or is it energy or both?
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I don't personally be live in a soul, and would attribute consciousness to the process of the brain. However I have to admit that it is hard to explain past lives. It might be due to information read, or heard or absorbed in some other way that is then manifested in a false memory.
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Some religious traditions see only a human as having a soul.  Others see animals (being completely innocent and unfallen) as also having souls. Animistic religions see EVERYTHING as having a soul, from humans to rocks.\n\nThe answer to this question totally depends upon your definition of the word Soul.  Some define soul as some kind of invisible force moving and propelling the body that exits us upon death.  Others define soul as being related to the function of breathing.  Others define soul as being an interplay between kinetic and potential energy.\n\nNobody really knows about any of these things.  It's all just speculation.  \n\nMy personal belief, as of this minute, is that sentience is really the indicator for spirit.  This can be interpreted very broadly to say that phototropism in plants is a sign of sentience.  I can live with that.  \n\nDoes this mean that the soul lives on beyond the body?  Absolutely not.  Once dead, that which was sentient is gone.  Forever.
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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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I don't believe in individual people having individual souls.... \n\nBut to some extent I do believe that via some proxy, the breach of the conscious / subconscious divide in the dreamscape can in fact be spread across the boundary between people as well. \n\nI mean.. do you think computers have souls in order to send data via the Internet? ...
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The soul according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. Such traditions often consider the soul both immortal and innately aware of its immortal nature, as well as the true basis for sentience in each living being.
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there is no scientific proof as far as i know that soul really does exist.but many philosophers have plausible arguments in support of the existence of the soul.as far as our energy is concerned it simply changes form and gets converted to heat energy,chemical energy etc.
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I believe that our soul journeys through this world, in many different lifetimes, till we have learned all the lessons put before us and we attain enlightenment.  Then our soul is freed from this earth and obtains a celestial form.  I don't believe in heaven or hell.  Hell is re-living the same lesson over and over again because we're too stupid to get it!  I've known a few people who have done that!  I don't think our souls could inhabit an animal body.  That just doesn't make sense to me.
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It was always my thought that the spirit and soul were the same thing, not two separate entities. In that respect, your spirit/soul and your body could be in two different places at one, after death. The fact that you are living and etc, means they are still striving together!  :-)
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It is true-everything happens for a reason; however, the reason is not always apparent to us.  Some things we understand right away, other much later, and some issues remain beyond our understanding forever.  For example, the oaths you ate gave you nourishment which was not only physical in nature. Our mind and spirit also get  nourishment from the food we eat thus when you eat food you love, you nourish your feelings of love. The food you ate nourished your spirit also. I believe even your spelling mistakes came for a reason.  Have a look please at the misspelled words and ask yourself why your spirit did not accept some words your mind dictated and your hand wrote? By the way I am not a liberal and I do believe in science not b.s. As you know there are many types of energy in the food you eat.  Why not the spiritual energies?
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Quantum mechanics is a model for understanding and predicting subatomic phenomena.  It has little use in our macro world of human dimensions.\n\nI believe the soul is in the intricate workings of the developed brain, which comes from the DNA instructions which include the development of the pre-frontal lobe, but do those instructions themselves, unacted on, without having built a brain, constitute a soul?
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the soul is neither good nor evil. its the choices that we make which are good or evil.
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I think that each of us is divine and part of the Universal Energy commonly known as God.  I think that each of us has the power to create our world - and we do it everyday, whether we believe it or not.\n\nI believe in myself and my own divine power.  I know that when I get sick herbs can help with the symptoms a bit but when it comes to healing I do that myself, using my own personal power.  I know that most of this existence is a reflection of my own beliefs and thought patterns.\n\nHaving said that, I don't believe that I am more powerful or more important than anyone else on the planet - but I am when it comes to my own life.\n\nPeace!
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Yes you can prove your mind!  Brain chemistry!\n\nSoul and spirit, totally different!\n\nNo matter how much you believe in them or faith etc, you are going to find it very, very hard to actually come up with any scientific proof for the existence of a soul or spirit!\n\nSorry folks...! ;-)
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We need to distinguish between Mind and Soul.  The mind is indeed a function of the brain, and the Soul is mostly indistinguishable from it while the brain is functioning.  We therefore leave open the question of whether the Soul is something quite apart, which can exist without the physical "housing" of the brain.  I personally think it is something different, and does exist apart from any physical structure, but my reasons are all spiritual/religious, and not in the least scientific.  The most scientific analogy is an idea or a concept, perhaps an archetype.  They clearly exist outside of any physical structure, and I believe the soul does, too.  My real question is whether it is an individual soul, and therefore there are billions of them, or whether we share souls at a higher dimension/level than we normally perceive.  The jury is still out on that one.
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soul    (sl) KEY  \n\nNOUN: \n\nThe animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. \nThe spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. \nThe disembodied spirit of a dead human. \nA human: "the homes of some nine hundred souls" (Garrison Keillor). \nThe central or integral part; the vital core: "It saddens me that this network ... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news" (Marvin Kalb). \nA person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion. \nA person's emotional or moral nature: "An actor is ... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not" (Alec Guinness). \nA sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music. \nA strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist. \nSoul music.
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there is an explanation for it should you choose to believe.\nwe as human beings experience and live all there is in the Universe during each and every moment, there is no more than there is right now - this very second- within the physical realm.\n\nYet the soul has been and will be forever free to travel as it so chooses throughout time, re-membering.  notice the hyphen.  it is within the "dream" state that the soul is able to disengage from the physical shackles of the world and manifest itself where ever and whenever. I have been doing this for years, as a child I would have the same dream over and over until it manifested.\nAnd more recently, when I am sleeping I have found that if I have taken a period of specific meditation before laying down i can direct where i "go" in my state of ultimate consciousness.  notice the lack of the use un -\nAnd the damnedest thing of all is this thing that happens all the time....  i will start dreaming about having a conversation with someone, and the phone will ring bringing me back to the state of un-consciousness will call life, and it's the person I was just conversing with in my "dream".  it's wild....\nabout a month ago, my friend who normally calls me in the early am when we are both on the road didn't call. I love deeply and was getting worried, well.. when this friend did call what we could consider late... the explanation was this... he had an inspector for the jobsite with him and blah blah blah...  he goes on to tell me the inspectors name and yada yada, which jarred my memory.  I had been in the truck with them that morning.  In sleep state i was asking if my friend knew someone named Paul... and blah blah and I'll be dammned if the inspector wasn't a guy named Paul.  Most really great dreams come by way of two souls being in the same place at the same time.\nI can will my kids and i into mutual dreams with their help.\nif they're willing we can go to f-in disneyland for the night.
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because we have a soul and free will