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An interesting thread, thanks Lorenzo..
This is pertinent to me as I'm developing a film subject on this very subject. Without going too much into the film itself I can reveal the key concept behind the film as it's something that personally I have been thinking about, researching and considering for a number of years.
Okay, so let's start by the common assumption that each of us has a soul or spirit within us. Okay, so let's divide it into two and assume that you have one half of a soul which exists in some form inside you through life. When you are born, right from birth, you spend the first few years (several in fact) gathering information on relationships both within you in your physical state and with everyone and everything around you. As a baby you try to put things in your mouth, as a toddler you reach out and touch that hot stove, and the first six or seven years you are gathering information on everything and everyone around you.
Then when you're aged about six or seven things change, you form your Mythos, or inner character, you work out the objective in your life, who you are going to grow up to be, who you are going to become and you also work out how you are going to relate to other people and also to everything in this world, and life. Living is to me nothing more than a preoccupation with relationships - to other people, to material possessions, to the world, your community, with yourself, with abstract concepts, and so on. This is what can be called your Life Script.
This is to me what the essence of existence, that relationship between your soul and the state which forms your environment, whether it be here in the material, physical world, or another state or plane, or which we have no knowledge simply because it lies outside the range of our perception. However that range of perception differs among each of us, some can perceive more, others perceive less and those who can perceive much more we label as psychic. It's important to understand that your reality is shaped by your perception of it more than anything else. That which is material and physical, or concrete, will be perceived similarly by many people, far more similarly than that which isn't material or physical and which is abstract.
The basis of your soul exists within your brain, but it isn't your brain, but your mind, which isn't physical, but is abstract, very much like memory. It is also very much abstract like the electromagnetic impulses and force fields which astrologer Michel Gaucquelin discovered to determine the validity of astrology as a science when he opined that the human central nervous system is just as receptive to these force fields and impulses from the Moon and planets as the sea and animals. However I also believe that we lack the awareness to develop astrology as a science which could serve any meaningful purpose other than what it does now and I'm not talking about drawing up horoscopes.
But what of your soul only being half a soul? Where is the other half? Well how about if that other half of your soul exists somewhere else, like the spiritual world, and is watching over you? What if it has been watching over you ever since the moment when you were born? What if that half of the soul existed within a physical body, as you perceive your soul to exist now, but in your previous incarnation? How about if that other half of your soul is the half that communicates to you through your inner voice which you hear? What if that other half of your soul manifests itself at the time of your death, claiming your half of the soul, so that the soul comes together as one briefly before dividing once again into two where that what you perceive to be your soul now remains in the spiritual world and watches over that other half which is reborn into a physical body?
This of course throws up the question of how much destiny we are subject to, and just how much free will we really have. How can you say that for example the other half of your soul has decided, based on the experiences of its previous life, where you are going to be born, into what family, what parents, and what information you are seeking from your world, life, and everything and everyone within it? Can we actually say that the way we live, and everything we say, think, and do decides karma, and decides the fate and destiny of the other half of our half of this soul in its (our) next life?
You see, what makes me think is when you find a term for this other half of your soul, there watching over you, and that term is for argument's sake God. Does this not provide a logical explanation not only for reincarnation but also for much religious thinking?
You see let's take the central figure of religion, which is Jesus Christ, and let's examine his message. He stated 'there is but one God', hence there is one other half of your soul. He stated much about loving God, God is the Father (which I take to be one who creates life as opposed to a paternal male figure), about loving others as your brothers (for they are the same as you, individuals), that you accept Christ as the saviour (assuming that Christ was the first to have such awareness of two halves of a soul - one of which isn't living and is known as God - which he sought to pass on in his teachings and message) and that when you accept this you will overcome death and enter eternal life in heaven? You see if your soul is just half of a soul then you cannot technically die, and as one half is constantly living this might suggest eternal life.
It's a similar message with all religions, for example in Islam we are led to believe that there is no other than Allah (we simply change the term for the other half of the soul from God to Allah) and we know also that Allah has no face and no identity - we do not know the identity of our previous incarnation. This concept appears to fit most or even all mainstream religious thinking.
It's also worth bearing in mind that Christ taught non-conformity when it comes to morality and spirituality, which would stand to reason for me as we are all individuals, we all have our individual lives, experiences, no two people in this world are ever the same. However mainstream religion, certainly in the institutional sense, advocates conformity when it comes to morality and spirituality, and I feel certainly exploits our fears of death and dying as a form of mind control. However there are those who willingly submit to such mind control. But this raises the question as to whether this is an issue for mainstream religion for advocating conformity, or our own individual issue for not challenging that established order or conformity and seeking to develop our own spirituality and morality in terms of our existence and the way we live.
Something to think about?
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