“Soul” is just a word, some of its connotations don’t fit but we don’t have a term that fits better. Eastern Masters refer to a “Universal Lifestream” that runs just above us 24/7. They say it’s all of our brain outputs flowing by together.
This is an area that is hard to even discuss given our language constraints.
Don’t forget the fact that all our physical material—molecules/atoms—are replaced every few years. Yet, the person remains.
This tells us we are not our body.
>given our language constraints.
Yes. English ‘soul’ comes from older English equivalents and potentially back to a bunch of Germanic roots overlapping; a faint connection to a Germanic base as ‘sea’ with (very speculative) idea that souls come from and return to the sea; personally I think this is an attempt by 20th century people to force a bridge to this Eastern concept.
People often almost use ‘spirit’ interchangeably although ‘spirit’ means ‘breath’ as does the Hebrew ‘naphesh’ which gets translated ‘soul’ in most Bibles.
Either way you’re right; languages have a bunch of terms which inadequately capture one or another version of meaning that people are not just their mechanical bodies. (Contrarily the WEF globalist types absolutely *insist* that people are just machines and that this is why and how they must and will control everyone. They are of course wrong on both counts but they seek to gaslight enough people into believing them).
But what it labels is very real, and very vital.
“They say it’s all of our brain outputs flowing by together.”
so in some moments/spots of flow, it may be not so clean, or flowing well, depending on the collection of outputs that entered it?
It doesn’t seem to me, that a superior force of a “Universal LIFEstream” would have spots like that. I would think it would be all Life promoting power. Yet people have some really interesting brain outputs, some think evil, not to mention do evil.
It is great that you can grasp and understand it all so well.