Do you believe you have a soul? That you will still exist after death? Or that this is all there is?

Question

How did you reach your conclusion?

Stony, your answer makes more sense to me than anything else I've ever come across. I suppose that's odd because I have only European ancestry: English, Scottish, Irish, and French. However, I've always thought native Americans have great wisdom. Your respect for our Mother, the Earth, comes through loud and clear in your answer.

Answer 1

Yes I believe I have a soul and that every living human has a soul too.

How did I reach my conclusion? Just a deep knowing that this is so. One can never argue with another's belief. If I believe then that is my truth. And I so believe.

Answer 2

I do not "have" a soul. I "am" a soul and I have a body. As a soul ,death of the body in of no great concern. Death of the body can be compared to a family having their house burn down. It may be an inconvenience short term, but the important thing is the family is intact and will continue its existence relatively undisturbed. Just find a new house and normalcy returns.
How I reached this conclusion? There is something innately within every human that senses a truth when one becomes aware of it. Higher truths are not in the realm of having to be proved. They lie in the realm beyond knowing where one knows that he knows. Unless one has acquired to a certain level of awareness, basic truths escape ones belief. There are few consolations in life better than moving beyond doubt.

Answer 3

Sometimes, answers to deep questions like this do not come without much introspection and searching. I would first like to say that, when we are dealing with what language can express, we are dealing with symbols. Symbols are not the objects or actions that they symbolize. So soul is only a word, but there is obviously something there; but is it just a word? As an example, I can spell 'you' or I can speak the word 'you', but the question I ask is this: when I say 'your name' does your living body come out of my mouth? No, it does not. When you look out your window do you see the word trees, stuck into the word ground? You are looking beyond the symbols with your question, but what good will it do to look beyond those symbols,and what answers will you get when you only use the same symbols to answer your question. Only more questions?
My answer to your 2nd question goes like this: death is only a word so how can the word 'you' turn into the word 'death'?
I know it sounds like semantics, and it may even sound crazy, but what we call you is not a word. Again, the word 'death' is only a symbol for what happens to what we perceive as our physical body; but the same is true for the word 'life'.
That something unfathomable that we call 'you' has been here since the universe created information and it will always be a part of the universe.
When you play the game of words, you can only say what words can say. Try this: tap a friend on the shoulder with your hand, and then- without touching them again, try to make them feel the same thing by speaking all of the words that you can. It will not happen. Words are only words.
More words count less.

Answer 4

There is definatly an afterlife. I believe we are spiritual creatures on a brief earthly journey.

I had a near death experience five yars ago. I was in the white light which was the most peaceful place I have ever been. It wasn't my time to leave this earth so I came back to life.

My youngest son passed away four years ago & I feel his energy around me at times. I have had to accept that he is no longer in his body, which is very diffuclit because I grew him within me.

I feel that as humans we don't have any concept of what lies beyond this earth.

I look at the night sky and wonder if my child understands the mysteries of the universe. It is awsome and humbling.

Answer 5

Yes, I have a soul and I will exist even after death.
I reached the conclusion by trusting spiritual knowledge with my intuition.

It can be proved:
Living beings have soul because that's what makes it different than non-living beings. And if they have soul, they exist even after death.

Answer 6

By the Grace of God and through the practices of siddha yoga meditation (the same as jesus taught) I know that i am one with God in unconditional love within the heart. I am spirit,I function in this environment with the aid of my computer brain and my space vehicle we call a body, when i express personality separate from God I do so through the atman or soul."The mind is not for thinking,the mind is for receiving thought". "God dwells within you as you". As the colors of the rainbow are contained within sunlight,so to are we all contained within the light of unconditional love. I am a being of light,I am the life of the body,I lived before I had this body and I will live after it is gone. There is only one life,Gods life. Life cannot be destroyed,just expressed in many different forms.

Answer 7

No, I don't believe I have a soul, though it would be comforting, I think, to believe I do. If I exist after my death it will be in the memories of those who knew me who still live. As for whether this is all there is . . . isn't it enough?

Answer 8

I believe everyone has a soul and that we will indeed exist after death, if only as matter. It is based of faith and my own perceptions.

Answer 9

This might be confusing,....here it goes,.....

I will return to our surroundings, after death. I will become the weather, winds, earth below our feet, animals, trees, stones. Things of truth. My spirit will speak through these things to the children of the future.

When I die,..my body will decompose, get eaten by animals & insects. My soul or energy will soak into the dirt & earth. My spirit will be apart of many things. The dirt & earth with energy from my body will give life to plants, animals,...so on. I will give future generations of humanity shelter and good life with the physical forms I transform into, like trees, stone, animals, ect.

That is why I try to respect nature, trees, animals, water,....becuase everything has a spirit, they have peoples spirits, my ancestors in them. They still give me gifts of good life. My children will know I am not dead becuase I will be the truth they see around them.

lol,.....kinda VooDoo huh? I tryed to explain it as clearly as I could,....

Nature is Truth, and always is truthful. What the earth telling you? (global warming),....the elders of my tribe say its our ancestors are getting angry,..ancestoral spirits in the trees, water, animals are be ignored.

I hope my children will listen to my spirit when I am dead.

Answer 10

That's all there is as far as we know. If a soul exists it inextricably linked to self-awareness. Self-awareness is, I think, the "conversation" that exists within the body as it performs its necessary tasks.