What is our soul?

Question

What is our soul. And is it linked to our brain. What happens to it after we die.

Answer 1

I believe it's the energy that makes us who we are, and it is returned to nature to be reincated once our physical body is dead.

Answer 2

The soul is that part of you that carries the memory of all your past experiences, not only from this lifetime, but from all past lives as well. Those experiences are recorded in emotion. The soul resides just behind the Xyphoid process at the base of the sternum.

As far as whether or not the soul is "linked to the brain",.. this is true,.. but only in the fact that the brain in truth is merely a "transciever" between the mind and the body. .. The mind in truth (.. and one day in the perhaps not too distant future, science will discover this to be true),... is not the brain. The mind is a subtle energy field that both surrounds and permeates the body.

................ As it stands right now,.. science still believes that the brain is the source of consciousness,.. but this is not at all true. Consciousness is an energy field which carries it's individuality in the memory of the soul. ... That energy field is eternal and when the physical body dies,.. consciousness and the soul,.... will live on in a subtle form until it once again incarnates into the physical realm to live again.

Answer 3

The human being a very complex multifaceted person... we are made up of three amazing parts. The body with its five senses to contact the physical world. The soul made up of our mind, will and emotions and then deep in us is the human spirit whereby we can contact God and have relationship with Him. Each part in a believer is inter-related in that even though the mind is part of the soul, it functions through the capacity of the brain. Everything in our soul is expressed through our bodies. If we are sad in our emotions we cry with our eyes. If we make a decision with our will of the soul then that is expressed by the body in whatever choice you made. So in a way if you have brain damage then in a lot of ways your ability to function as a person may depleat in all ways. Our spirit is a part of us that functions on a different level and capacity. It is indeed sad if someone suffers brain damage and is not able to see or read or speak.. but deep in this person's spirit and soul there are activities taking place no matter what. The body houses the soul and the soul houses the spirit. Good thought provoking question tnx for the post sandy

Answer 4

Maybe it's like the light in a lamp; the lamp being our physical attributes and even our personality.
The soul enlivens us and maybe even likened to a blank disk which receives the spiritual dimension of our life, like a recording.
Some souls receive more beautiful and more complete recordings than others but nobody returns a blank disc..everything that gets recorded is part of a letting go process which is what love is; the spiritual art of learning how to fly.
Those well practised in the art of letting go of self in life - even if it's just to pick up after the kids - will know how to fly when the time comes and they will ascend to Heaven on wings of love fashioned in the fire of life.
Those who have not taken the bother to fashion those wings in life will be depending on prayer and work to complete their journey...
Who knows maybe everybody will get there in the end but time can be a very unkind relative.
Anyone who thinks this is purely a material experience is spiritually blind and should be prayed for.

Answer 5

The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is a self-aware ethereal substance particular to a unique living being. In these traditions 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 (but not always as explained below) considered to be immortal and to pre-exist their incarnation in flesh.

The concept of the soul has strong links with notions of an afterlife, but opinions may vary wildly, even within a given religion, as to what may happen to the soul after the death of the body. Many within these religions and philosophies see the soul as immaterial, while others consider it to possibly have a material component, and some have even tried to establish the mass (weight) of the soul.

However, atheism and other non-religious philosophies do not accept the existence of a soul.
The word "soul" did not exist in the times of Jesus, Socrates or Aristotle, and so the quotations, interpretations and translations of the word "soul" from these sources, means that the word should be handled very carefully. One might go as far as saying that the word "soul", in the sense we use it today, did not exist in Hebrew or Aramaic, but it existed in Greek

Answer 6

Hebrews 4:12 says, For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart

We are made up of a spirit, a soul, and a body

Soul in this scripture is psuche (5590) and spirit is pneuma (4151).

Soul (5590) is the breath of life. the seat of feelings, desires, affections, aversion. basically the mind and heart

Spirit (4151) being the disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul

If you die today then you shed this earthly body. Your soul/spirit will be with the Lord if you're saved or you'll go to Hades. After the judgment those in Hades go to Gehenna or the lake of fire. (maybe at the center of the earth) God will create a new heaven and earth after this earth is destroyed by fire. (probably lava) and we will all live here on the new earth

Answer 7

There was a scientist who conducted an experiment to see if there was such a thing as a soul. He got permission to have people who were dying placed on "weighing beds" so that their weight could be monitored precisely. What he found was that at the moment of death, peoples weight decreased by a very very small amount. Does this account for the weight of the soul? I'll leave it up to others to work out.

Answer 8

It is you, your identity, your thought, personality, that which has a memory, understanding and will. It is your spirit with a body.The brain is the inter media by which it connects to the physical world. If you look inside your brain, you will not find the soul. It's effects are like to the wind you cannot see the wind, but you can see it's effects. One little way of trying to explain the soul maybe.

Answer 9

I believe the soul as we callit is the breath of life!after we die it goes back from whence it came to God

genesis 2: 7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Answer 10

well I can't tell you what happens when you die because I am not dead, but a person's soul it the person themselves the body is your shell you soul or spirit is what moves on it is an energy who what you are, it is the one thing nobody can take away from you.

another description of soul is if you can dance on soul train LOL! ok I am giving away my age here. some of you remember Saturday Soulllllllllllllllllllllll Trainnnnnnnnnnnnnn right after american bandstand. LOL

Answer 11

According to all Christian Bibles, it is the blood and dies with the body. It is not immortal and does not survive the body and is only separate when we bleed. The Israelis were to slit the throat of the sacrificial lamb and allow its soul to drain out on the ground. When Christ died, his soul went no where. He could do nothing until his father resurrected him and then it wasn't his body or soul, as his soul bled out and his body was destroyed to fulfill the covenant of the sacrificial lamb. All that he was, was written into the Book of Life. When his new body, a spirit body, was created, all that data was downloaded into it.