The soul or atman, credited with the ability to enliven the body, was located by ancient anatomists and philosophers in the lungs or heart, in the pineal gland (Descartes), and generally in the brain.
Your soul is inside of you. You cannot see it, but it lasts forever.” But theologian J. I. Packer described the soul as “your conscious personal self,” the “I” that knows itself as “me.” Your soul is the identity that makes you who you really are.
soul, in religion and philosophy, the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being, that which confers individuality and humanity, often considered to be synonymous with the mind or the self.
Your soul speaks of your inner-life in relation to your own experience: your mind, heart, will, and imagination. It also includes your thoughts, desires, passions, and dreams. But your spirit speaks of the same inner-life in relation to God: your faith, hope, love, character, and perseverance.
There are seven positive regions the soul can go to after death and seven negative regions. After completing its stay in the respective region, the soul is subjected to rebirth in different living forms according to its karma. This cycle can be broken after a soul achieves Moksha or Nirvana.
In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the spiritual essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.
Aristotle distinguishes in the De anima three main kinds of souls (the nutritive, the sensitive-locomotive, and the rational) corresponding to plants, animals, and human beings.
According to Plato, the three parts of the soul are the rational, spirited and appetitive parts. The rational part corresponds to the guardians in that it performs the executive function in a soul just as it does in a city.
-- In living composites the soul is the substantial form of the body; that is, the soul is so united to the body that through it the body receives and possesses subsistence and life, and that from the union of these two principles there results a single substance.
The dominant theory is that the soul enters at conception. Some teach that the soul does not enter the fetus until 40 days after conception. All Jewish and Christian and Muslim teachings affirm that the fetus has a soul long before birth.
But the soul was brought into being (producta in esse) through creation, whereas the body was made at the end of the work of adornment. Therefore, the soul of man was produced before the body.
The tripartite soul
The Platonic soul consists of three parts which are located in different regions of the body: the logos (λογιστικόν), or logistikon, located in the head, is related to reason and regulates the other parts. the thymos (θυμοειδές), or thumoeides, located near the chest region, is related to spirit.
The five components are: Ren, Ka, Ib, Ba and Sheut.
Modern scholarship. The modern scholarly consensus holds that the canonical teaching of the Old Testament made no reference to an immortal soul independent of the body. A wide range of scholarly reference works consistently represent this view.
When you feel welcome, when you feel as if other people really desire you and are glad you are there, your soul feels joy and peace. Third, our souls also want to be loved, not for anything we do, but for who we are. We all know when people are showing affection or appreciation for what we have done.
This soul is capable of knowing God and enjoying God, and it is capable of sinning against God, something the animals cannot do. This is at the heart of what God is saying when he says, “You are made in the image of God” (Genesis 1:26-27). God has breathed life into you and that life will never end.
The spirit has seven levels or facets of the complete spirit. These levels are: mineral, vegetable, animal, personal, human, secret and secret of secret souls. Each level represents the stages of evolution, and the process that it goes through in its growth.
The Souls go through the five stages of being an Infant Soul, a Child Soul, a Young Soul, A Mature Soul, and Old Soul, until they realize their Buddhahood, Krishnahood or Christ Consciousness. All the five Soul Cycles need to be passed through — there is no skipping or jumping through any Cycle of the Soul.
Plato's theory of the soul divides the soul into three parts. There is an appetitive part, Epithymetikon, that deals with bodily desires, a spirited part, Thymoeides, that deals with more reflective passions, and the rational part, Logistikon, that deals with thinking and truth.
Nowadays, Quantum Physics and other branches of Science are seriously considering the existence of the Soul. It has been frequently described as a body of unknown energy coupled to human body by means of a mutual interaction. This type of energy from the viewpoint of Physics has been considered as Imaginary Energy.
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Satyagraha is pure soul-force. Truth is the very substance of the soul. That is why this force is called satyagraha. The soul is informed with knowledge.