2007-08-11 08:26:11 · 12 answers · asked by Jen 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
in my own opinion..... ....this could be weirder
the soul is pure energy, we have yet to find out what energy is or where it comes from, but we know what it does. the soul is your life energy, your own and everything existing has some amount of potential life energy. we all run on this energy and we all recycle this energy, this doesnt mean i dont believe in god though
2007-08-11 08:58:19 · answer #1 · answered by ceesteris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was watching today on Discovery Channel the first brain transplant...Made by doctor White... The patients were 2 monkeys... After almost successfully achiving the transfer( there were some not so minor problems) he gave an interview... Saying he believes that the physical location of the human spirit/soul is inside the skull...
2007-08-11 09:33:39 · answer #2 · answered by Chips 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A soul is the life essence of a person. I believe it is what makes the difference between life and death. I believe that a body can't live without a soul. Our bodies are merely receptacles for our true selves. I don't believe it has any exact location in the body; it is fused with our body until physical death.
2007-08-11 08:41:53 · answer #3 · answered by D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a very good question. This is my opinion, so far. The soul is the part of you that makes you who you are, your sense of awareness. The soul resides in your whole body (awareness) but concentrates in the head (behind your eyes) and in your torso (for emotional and 'gut' feelings). The experiences your soul has while your body restores itself through sleep are remembered as dreams.
2007-08-11 08:43:42 · answer #4 · answered by Aunt Karen 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The soul is the part of you that survives death and progresses onward. It is the essence of "you" that grows spiritually mature. Therefore, where it resides is best answered by describing as the seat of your moral choosing and spiritual identifcation.
"The soul is the self-reflective, truth-discerning, and spirit-perceiving part of man which forever elevates the human being above the level of the animal world. Self-consciousness, in and of itself, is not the soul. Moral self-consciousness is true human self-realization and constitutes the foundation of the human soul, and the soul is that part of man which represents the potential survival value of human experience. Moral choice and spiritual attainment, the ability to know God and the urge to be like him, are the characteristics of the soul. The soul of man cannot exist apart from moral thinking and spiritual activity.
A stagnant soul is a dying soul. But the soul of man is distinct from the divine spirit which dwells within the mind. The divine spirit arrives simultaneously with the first moral activity of the human mind, and that is the occasion of the birth of the soul.
"The saving or losing of a soul has to do with whether or not the moral consciousness attains survival status through eternal alliance with its associated immortal spirit endowment. Salvation is the spiritualization of the self-realization of the moral consciousness, which thereby becomes possessed of survival value. All forms of soul conflict consist in the lack of harmony between the moral, or spiritual, self-consciousness and the purely intellectual self-consciousness.
"The human soul, when matured, ennobled, and spiritualized, approaches the heavenly status in that it comes near to being an entity intervening between the material and the spiritual, the material self and the divine spirit. The evolving soul of a human being is difficult of description and more difficult of demonstration because it is not discoverable by the methods of either material investigation or spiritual proving. Material science cannot demonstrate the existence of a soul, neither can pure spirit-testing. Notwithstanding the failure of both material science and spiritual standards to discover the existence of the human soul, every morally conscious mortal knows of the existence of his soul as a real and actual personal experience.""
2007-08-11 08:42:23 · answer #5 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to me, the soul is my spirit, the part of me that is in my mind, the thinking part, its an energy or essence within my body now, but that can live without my body,
the me that is me, i guess is a way to say it, when i was 8, i "almost" died, from a rattlesnake bite, i drifted off from my body and was looking down, watching myself going to the hospital, but i still felt like myself
ps: i didnt see a light, just everyone started getting very distant, like they were right there yet far away, then next i knew i was up above, watching, then i came to in the hospital
2007-08-11 08:41:48 · answer #6 · answered by dlin333 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The part of you that does not change.
Location in the body? Maybe look up the word atman.
2007-08-11 09:10:57 · answer #7 · answered by Theron Q. Ramacharaka Panchadasi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a soul is the person inside the body, the part that goes on to either heaven or hell when we die- it's in our hearts i guess, i don't mean the organ.
2007-08-11 08:32:49 · answer #8 · answered by Marie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the soul is not tangible in this plane or level of existence. It will manifest itself when we leave this mortal coil.
2007-08-12 03:54:34 · answer #9 · answered by DH 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is 'out of body' and uniquely individual.
2007-08-11 08:38:25 · answer #10 · answered by midnite rainbow 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋