Is there something else above the human soul?

Question

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Answer 1

It was the breath of life which turned Adam into a living soul.
When we stop breathing we stop being a living soul and become a dead soul. Nothing lives on.

Remember when Jesus died he said, "into your hands I commit my spirit" not my soul. A persons spirit is not a force which leaves the body but a remembrance of ones being.
Think about your youth and the spirit of things which were.

So in answer to your question, the only thing higher than man is the spirit realm consisting of God, Jesus and all the other angelic host. These were created different from man.

Answer 2

If that the human soul has a goal, a purpose, or and end then that must necessarily be "above" or beyond the soul, else it would not reach or strive for it. Yet there may be many and other things that are above the soul, such as those things which reside in the collective unconscious, or the corporate identity of a family, race, nation, or people. We too easily delimit soul or reduce it to the mechanics of a ghost in the machine. We likewise too readily define God, Who truthfully is beyond our knowing, and either dismiss or slavishly follow a cult of the Almighty. Rational inquiry demands more humility at both ends of the question. Suffice it to say there is indeed that which is above the soul and independent of it, but what precisely that "else" is is both a matter of faith and speculation.

Answer 3

"Human soul" is a bit oxymoronic. "Human soulfield" is more indicative of the potential for eternality or dissolution.

Plotinus realized One Mind Soul-individuation, Husserl Pure Ego.

Some authors note Oneness as Godhead, Principle, Brahman, and the like. This is termed the "I Am Presence," of which all souls have a homoeomerous miniature portion, able to be increased per right choice.

"Letting this Mind abide, which was also in Christ Jesus," is the Son or Daughter of Godness seen in e.g. Saints John the Beloved and Mary of Bethany, the mediative Light of the world. This mediation champions the inner sense, the innocence, the inner child, which is the soul, the soulfield. Growing in Grace in the Way shown by Jesus permits childlike joy, truth, love, and the like, rather than childish pride, greed, etc.

Some modern authors who discuss this: Mark Prophet, "Climb the Highest Mountain" and "The Masters and Their Retreats;" Ann Ree Colton, "Men in White Apparel" and "Watch Your Dreams;" Dr. Olga Kharitidi, "Entering the Circle" and "The Master of Lucid Dreams'" O. M. Aivanhov's "Light Is a Living Spirit" and "A Philosophy of Universality;" Free and Wilcock's "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", http://www.divinecosmos.com and Dr. Jim Tucker's "Life before Life."

http://www.tiller.org "Psychoenergetic Science," Dr. William A. Tiller, and "Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer, are also good.

Answer 4

Above in what sense? Superior?
I am a Hindu. At one level of understanding there are no individual souls. That is, there is no ego associated with the soul. In that sense there is just The One. The 'I am that I am'.

The ' Be still and know that I am God'. The last may require an explanation, which may raise a lot of dust and fury. This is to be understood not as a statement by God, but as an assertion that if one becomes still, then that one knows 'I am God'.
When that happens the ego-mind-thought complex dies and only the pure awareness remains. That is the state one is enjoined to achieve. The being is always in that state. But awareness is clouded by the individual ego.

So, there is nothing above the soul. There is no individual soul either.
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Answer 5

Oh, I so lament the sorry state of existence resided in by one VONHIGGINS!

Here's what's above the soul of man (take note vonhiggins because you may not get a second chance to glean a bit of wisdom here):

I M A G I N A T I O N ! ! !

This is what created the idea of the soul, of god, of all that is exalted above our petty existence.

Here's an example:
I imagine vonhiggins as a pretentious little chihuahua. His barking from the corner is annoying, but no one actually thinks he might be able to back up the pretentious bark with anything close to a dangerous bite. Only the poor little deluded chihuahua can see the power in his own voice.

The vet is preparing a razor so that vonhiggins *** can be shaved and prepped for his yearly exam. Despite his incessant yapping & protestations, poor little vonhiggins is hoisted up onto the cold table for his yearly inspection.

I'll leave it to your imagination from there...

That's where your power lies, Third P...is in your imagination. It is there where all sorts of wonderful things can happen!

love,
iRONic.

Answer 6

How I answer this question partly depends on what we mean "soul", and what we mean by "above".

If God made individual souls then God is above human.

If our individual atoms make up the body of our cosmos and our individual minds contribute to a universal mind then such as God, such things might be considered as above human individuality or soul.

From a psychological viewpoint we might define the soul to be the ego or individual driving force of the individual, whether our Id or instinctive drive is above or belove the ego is a matter of perspective. If we assume Id is below ego we may assume a link to mystical realms or collective consciousness and things outside or beyond the individual are above the individual mind or soul.

Splitting body/spirit souls or individual/collective is like splitting matter/energy or dream and dreamer.

In our everyday understanding space, time, matter, energy, and mind have separate meanings, but in scientific and philosophical circles these concepts are all inter-related and are all loose labels that try to pin down or compartmentalize the essence of existence.

Some define the soul as the essence of the human, whether something is above or below this or whether you can separate individuals from the whole is a matter of perspective.
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Definition of "soul"

The word "soul" has various meanings to different people. The Living (embodied) soul in the old testament was the "life blood" or combination of body (or matter) and spirit (or mind). Whilst a person was alive (or while blood flowed in the body) he/she had a living soul. After death the spirit left the body.

Today we normally mix the terms soul and spirit. Descarte and Plato and the like saw the mind as the essence of the person or the sole thing that must remain for a person to still be themselves.

Unlike the embodied soul, Plato felt the mind or essence of a person is immortal. Plato's immortal soul most likely referred to the modern concept of "mind" or old testament "spirit".

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Minds are non physical things and therefore physical aboveness may have no meaning.

I will then rephrase your question to mean "Is there something that causes or is more important or essential to human individuals than the mind?"

My opinion is that the individual minds may be part of a collective consciousness. You might consider this to be "above" individual minds but whether the individuals cause the collective or the collective causes the individual is probably just a matter of perspective. From my opinion there is nothing more important or more in control of the essential me than myself.

Some religions see being reunited with the collective consciousness (e.g. by renouncing bodily desires, or individualism) is a higher form but my studies in mathematics of individual minds suggest that the collective perspective is blind to aspects visible to the individual. This leads me to believe that being absorbed into the collective mind may not be any better that being where we are.

The grass is always greener on the other side. E.g. Why would a Christian God have created individuals like us if, being a single Universal mind wasn't a lonely experience.

Answer 7

Yes The Supreme Soul. God also known as Krishna, Allah, Jehovah, Elohim, Vishnu, Rama, etc) There is nothing higher than Him. We are all His parts and parcels. We have all the qualities of Him (in our pure state) but not in the same quantity. Like a drop of water of the ocean has all the qualities of the ocean, but that drop never becomes the Great Ocean. But we must realize our eternal soul beyond this body and our eternal position otherwise we will never be completely satisfied or happy.

Answer 8

No because without a soul you are empty no heart no passion no fire no companion and no rhythmic melody poetry, music, art, dance it all comes from the soul its harmonious and keeps the peace i could not live with out my soul and would never sell it as when you die your soul lives on forever and because i am Christian it will live in heaven, or what ever you believe, but your soul never dies, it makes you who you are and is the most emotionally valuable thing you will ever have it keeps the truth and the love, and it makes you feel, laugh, cry. Without a soul you are a body walking empty in a world where so many people walk like zombies, looking for something, but never finding, a soul is deep and when I'm lost i look inside my self inside my soul and i find me because your soul is who you are.

Cherish your soul, its all of your personality, and remember it will never die even though your body does.

Take care of your body and most importantly your soul <3

Answer 9

Have u ever heard of this statement : there's a merry soul??? I have and I am one, so I believe anyone can wreck my mind, my body, and yet no one gets ME, and that's what I believe is my soul and that I rate it as higher than others that I mentioned above. That is y I always tell myself I am born to win, never loose, never!!

Answer 10

Great question!!

The soul is believed to be in search of 'nirvana' or salvation which is a state beyond the level of gaining life experience..... therefore, the state of 'nirvana' or salvation is above the human soul which is subjected to life experience. It is believed that Nirvana frees the soul from experience state and takes it to the state of oneness with the Supreme Truth (Truth in this context means that which is unchangeable and eternal).

However, I do not quite understand all this and to my simplistic thinking, it appears that a state of selflessness and all encompassing compassion must be the highest state of being..... hence well above the normal human soul.