The Concept of the Soul
There are many strong beliefs regarding the soul and its meaning. Many religions attach the soul to an afterlife. The Egyptians even left text and food for life after life. Despite the differences between the religions there is still a common thread that connects our physical with a spiritual presence.
In ancient texts the translation of spirit is breath. Reading back though many of the passages, this one change in translation can give new meaning those ancient teachings.
In shamanic teachings, a form of spirituality practiced around the world, the shaman speaks of soul retrieval. Traumas can lead to a detachment between the soul and the body personality as a protective measure. While the person may carry on in life they carry with them the sense of loss.
Why do we focus so strongly on the soul? Is it perhaps to find an identity that transcends the physical? Is it to retrieve a part of ourselves that our cultures encourage us to ignore? Maybe it is focusing on that part of us that lives beyond the clicking of the clock or beating of the heart.
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge published The Penny Cyclopaedia in 1842. In this text the soul was describe as such: The soul is thyself; for thou knoest that which is different from soul and is perishable. But what is the soul? asked the king. The sage answered: He who dwells in the body, who heeds the body, and at whose departing the body suffers whilst he does not suffer, for uncertainty (such as the bodys) is not his – that is the soul. He delights in his beauty, he is immortal, fearless, and himself Creator.
Time will not change our quest to see within our own souls. We may distract ourselves with the every-increasing pace of our world, but we cannot fill every moment of silence in our lives. The soul speaks in the space of silence, but its voice is unmistakably our own.
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