Do you believe in a soul and if not...?

Question

how do you explain the existence of the mind? Not just a functioning brain or memory, but a mind that allows us to think as individuals and not just act on instinct. Modern theories, based on a scientific understanding of the brain, see the mind as a phenomenon of psychology, and the term is often used more or less synonymously with consciousness. I personally believe that the mind is the part of the soul that makes our soul individual and separate.

Answer 1

Soul is the so-called image of God, made of the same fabric as God. You can think of Soul, which is the real you wearing a physical body in the shape of man, as a mini God. The mind however is a part of the body (or the brain) and is there for Soul to use, to communicate with the physical world. Unfortunately for most of us, the mind is in control of our lives.

Intuitions, gut-feeling and stuff like that are coming from Soul, which has had countless experiences from other life times, as against what the analytical mind (which is limited to this life time) can fathom.

When Soul is in total control of a person's actions, he/she is likely to have an easy time spiritually speaking. When the mind is in control, chances are that he/she will reincarnate on account of the many blunders that would be committed.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as a soul. Mind is simply a manifestation of the brain doing its thing. Many years ago, Marvin Minsky of MIT proposed an experiment. Suppose you are sitting at a terminal, communicating with something on the other end of the wire. It claims to be human, and have all the usual attributes that we consder to be human. How would you determine whether the claim is true, or whether the entity is simply a smart computer? You can't. Indeed, you can't know that this message isn't originated by a computer, no matter how much I swear up and down that I am a living person.

Answer 3

When a soul wants to enjoy this material world, forgetting his real home in the spiritual world, he takes this life of hard struggle for existence. This unnatural life of repeated birth, death, disease, and old age can be stopped when his consciousness is dovetailed with the supreme consciousness of God. That is the basic principle of the Krsna consciousness movement.

As far as heart transplants are concerned, there is no question of success, unless the recipient's soul enters into the transplanted heart. So the presence of the soul must be accepted. In sexual intercourse, if there is no soul, there is no conception, no pregnancy. Contraception deteriorates the womb so that it is no longer a good place for the soul. That is against the order of God. By the order of God, a soul is sent to a particular womb, but by contraceptive methods, he is denied that womb and has to be placed in another. That is disobedience to the Supreme. For example, take a man who is supposed to live in a particular apartment. If the situation there is so disturbed that he cannot enter the apartment, then he is put at a great disadvantage. That constitutes illegal interference and is punishable by law.

The undertaking of "soul research" would certainly mark the advancement of science. But no matter how much science advances, they will not be able to find the soul. The soul's presence can simply be accepted on circumstantial understanding, for you will find in the Vedic literature that the dimension of the soul is one ten-thousandth the size of a point. Therefore, it is not possible for the material scientists to capture the soul. You can simply accept the soul's existence by taking it from higher authorities. What the greatest scientists are now finding to be true, we've explained long ago.

As soon as one understands the existence of the soul, he can immediately understand the existence of God. The difference between God and the soul is that God is a very great soul, and the living entity is a very small soul; but qualitatively they are equal. God is all-pervading, and the living entity is localized. But the nature and quality are the same.

The central question, you say, is "Where is the soul, and where does it come from?" That is not difficult to understand. We have already discussed how the soul is residing in the heart of the living entity and how it takes shelter in another body after death. Originally the soul comes from God. Just as a spark that comes from a fire appears to be extinguished when it falls away from the fire, the spark of soul originally comes from the spiritual world to the material world. In the material world the soul falls down into three different conditions called the modes of nature -- or goodness, passion, and ignorance. When a spark of fire falls on dry grass, the fiery quality continues; when the spark falls on the ground, it cannot display its fiery manifestation unless some combustible materials are present; and when the spark falls on water, it is extinguished. In this way, we find the soul takes up three kinds of living conditions. One living entity is completely forgetful of his spiritual nature; another is almost forgetful, but still has an instinct of spiritual nature; and another is completely in search of spiritual perfection. There is a bona fide method for the attainment of spiritual perfection by the spiritual spark of soul, and if he is properly guided, he is very easily sent back home, back to Godhead, from where he originally fell.

It will be a great contribution to human society if this authorized information from the Vedic literature is presented on the basis of modern scientific understanding. The facts are already there. It simply has to be presented for modern understanding. If the doctors and scientists of the world can help man understand the science of the soul, this will be a great contribution

Answer 4

Of course. Why would those that linger long in carnality often feel to look into other things for fulfillment?
What magic thing makes one's arm float up off of the table, and pull inaimate objects, resting by nature in their place, due to gravity, upward, contrary to how things inanimate rest in a gravitational setting?
The spirit is not the soul. Only one with a dead spirit takes drugs. They have no effect on the spirit. The soul is a medial thing, between the spirit and the body, which possesses personal will. It decides to correspond with the Graces from GOD that endow a Living Spirit, or to compromise itself in carnality, which substance abuse is. Because substance abuse can throw a weight on the soul, while it is united to the body in a composite unity, it is morally irresponsible to submerge the soul under such a bad influence.
The Brain is not the source of the mind, but an organ wherein GOD has made a unification of incorporeal mind with thoughtless flesh, to make one complete man. The Mind animates the brain, its joint to the life of the whole body.
When one has an emotional problem, it effects the flesh many times. Often a shock to the body inhibits the soul in a way that effects the interaction of the soul with others percieved through this world's senses. That doesn't mean the person is altered.

Answer 5

We are spirit, soul and body and the soul is the life part of us, but we can lose our soul by rejecting Christ. Jesus said, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?" Fleshly lusts war against the soul. We want our soul following the Holy Spirit. We want our body and spirit following the Holy Spirit.

A person does not have a soul; a person is a living soul. We connect life and the blood with the soul. God breathed life into Adam and he became a living soul. God is in the soul of every person as the life blood.

Life is the highest good when it is lived according to God's intentions and not used up in search for material and cultural goods. This life is stronger than death and cannot be destroyed by human beings.

Answer 6

God is our basically soul mate. it is the main severe courting on your lifestyles. Romantic love is a fantasy. that could be a great fantasy, yet a fantasy none the fewer. there are possibly a hundred people you're able to have a effectual satisfied marriage with in this international. Being clean and polished merely makes it plenty much less complicated to be satisfied and effectual. Love is unconditional, yet staying with the guy you adore is often conditional. easily particular people resonate greater strongly with particular others and could make a greater useful tournament. there's little question approximately that. particular people want particular people, and non secular people want non secular people. that's what i think of.

Answer 7

The mind is the result of the brain. If it is not, then why do drugs effect our spirit? If the spirit is real, then why does brain trauma completely change an individual. It is quite clear that the spirit is completely fantasy and by all means false.

Answer 8

every human is BORN with 4 elements that help keep him or her healthy.... spiritual, emotional, mental. and physical..... the soul is made up of the spiritual (intuition, natural sensitivity to our natural environment) and the emotional... together they create a conscience.... the mental (mind) looks to create a balance between the soul (spirit and emotion) with the flesh or the needs of the flesh. when we think in terms of religion instead of nature we eat away at our natural conscience... a conscience produces natural rewards or consequences to our physical behavior (it's the equivalent of selling your soul) In nature one is expected to have self authority and self responsibility... relying on some god is like passing the buck... the natural consequences are. the erosion or dulling of our souls producing unnatural dependencies or/and imbalances in the mind and body.... which means illnesses and weakness in one or both... this leads to early death because the natural healing cycle is broken

Mother Nature will not teach humanity the natural repair of our bodies till religion is rejected by humanity...

Answer 9

I really don't know about a soul but there's "someone" there analysing and experiencing.
I think its always the same "person" or 'intelligence.
His conditions in his particular lifetime make him unique but he's not seperate from others as such.
Just a different, temporary manifestation of the same intelligence.

Answer 10

I think we have a soul... but i am open to other ideas. there is so much out there that we will never ubderstand! I like to just live in the present, and let whatever will happen when we die happen. It's no use to try to understand things that humans aren't capable of grasping becuase we can percieve only one thing at a time.