Our Soul is often interpreted to be a issue of Spirituality or Religious thinking. When we think of our Soul in this manner we are first hit with our Beliefs on Spiritual or Religious theologies. I am not wanting to go there, we need to get past these limiting understandings of our Soul. I, personally, am not religious and I am not anti-religious either. Until fairly recently I did define myself as spiritual in nature, but recently I am hesitating even considering myself as spiritual. Recently I have found the term 'spiritual' as being associated with - lots of Love, nice fairy thoughts, to much fluff with little substance.
The Soul that I am writing about is not something that we can choice to believe in or not. To me our Soul is all the NON-PHYSICAL characteristics that make us the individual we are. These non-physical traits are summed up in what makes us CONSCIOUS BEINGS. It is to say that our Soul is our Mind. Most of the time our Mind is associated with our Brain, but our Brain is simply a nerve center that basically controls the operation of our PHYSICAL BODY. The issue is - does our Brain control our Mind or does our Mind control our Brain?
Example - When we are driving a car and we want to make a right turn at the corner. The Brain will fire the correct neurons so that our hands turn the steering wheel in the right direction to turn the car right. It is the Mind that has the THOUGHT that directs the Brain to fire the correct neurons. Thoughts are not physical and are more then electrical impulses from our Brain.
Our Mind:
The Mind has always been somewhat of a mystery. In the book - "Shaman, Healer, Sage" by Alberto Villoldo Ph.D - the author talks about his journey as a neurosurgeon. Alberto talks about how he became a neurosurgeon in his search for the Mind. The fact that he could not find the Mind indicates that the Mind is not PHYSICAL in nature, there is no part of the body that we can say "The Mind is here". Our Mind has no physical location.
Our Mind is the home of our many NON-PHYSICAL traits - Intellect, Emotions, Free-Will, Self-image, Empathy, Compassion, Values, Beliefs, Personality, Ego and many others. We often talk about following our 'Heart' and not our 'Mind' on different issues. What we are really saying is to follow our 'Emotions' and not our 'Intellect', but the decision to follow one or the other is made with our Mind exercising our Free-Will.
We all have a PHYSICAL BODY that is uniquely ours - our own DNA, Fingerprints, Eye Retinal, etc. We also have the NON-PHYSICAL aspects that makes us who we are. It is these non-physical traits that give us our SOUL and this is our MIND. It is for this reason that our Soul/Mind is not an issue of spirituality or religious theology but a matter of fact. Our Mind is also uniquely ours.
The issue of our Mind living on after we leave this Physical realm may become an issue of spirituality or religious discussion, the fact that we have a Soul is not.
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