What am I supposed to suppose is real? You just give me a word with no meanings attached. What do you mean by "suppose the soul is real"? Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
perhaps it's like trying to describe the taste of a banana...yellow?
as you seem interested enough to reply, try skipping the first sentence and going to the second one.
If the soul existed and could be a value-addition to an onsouled life, couòd you care?
*or maybe your life is complete without 'going there', and you possibly think anyone who enjoys soul communion is merely deluded...
maybe there is a surrender needed to understand.
how about this?
critical thinking is crucial in life, all would agree hopefully.
are there times when excessive critical thinking might be an impediment to experience? has this ever been true for you?
perhaps you fell in love with someone your reasonable side urged you to avoid, for example.
or you made an apparently prudent decision, that later you regretted, realising it was fear, not wisdom that drove your choice.
perhaps 'soul' is like phlogiston or ether, handy terminologies till better ones, with more enquiry, arrive and take their place. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
When you say "soul" do you mean this?
The soul ... is a self-aware ethereal substance particular to a unique living being. ... the soul is thought to incorporate the inner essence of each living being, and to be the true basis for sentience. In distinction to spirit which may or may not be eternal, souls are usually ... considered to be immortal and to pre-exist their incarnation in flesh.
[I find] 'soul' more about the unconscious, fertile, magmatic substructures of personality, and the emotional gestalt we discover sharing numinous experience
it wouldn't seem like you do. So does 'soul' already have a meaning? I have to admit I have no idea what you mean by "the emotional gestalt we discover sharing numinous experience", among other things because I don't think I have had numinous experiences as in
that which is wholly other. The numinous is the mysterium tremendum et fascinans that leads in different cases to belief in deities, the supernatural, the sacred, the holy, and the transcendent.
because he evinces signs of humour, playfulness and compassion, i suspect he does.
but what do i know, i only play guru on the internet... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
you do manage to extract elliptical ones!
bell that cat ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Damn! I've been outed! Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
