Notes - dilemma

            2225 hours. I am a transcendental existentialist who is by nature also an agnostic. I have been reviewing 'transcendentalism' and like what I read from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

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             Transcendentalism

First published Thu Feb 6, 2003; substantive revision Mon Mar 7, 2011

Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, and Theodore Parker. Stimulated by English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher, and the skepticism of Hume, the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity, and urged that each person find, in Emerson's words, “an original relation to the universe” (O, 3). Emerson and Thoreau sought this relation in solitude amidst nature, and in their writing. By the 1840s they, along with other transcendentalists, were engaged in the social experiments of Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden; and, by the 1850s in an increasingly urgent critique of American slavery.

From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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         The key words are: "in Emerson's words, 'an original relation to the universe'". During my life I have had many personal visions [experiences of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, many in a vivid mental and sometimes fanciful image]. These are real aspects of my mind and can readily be witnessed in the Merlyn books and blog but also in my lifelong notes and sample writings. I try to put such 'events' to use (what else am I going to do with them).

         I can see absolutely no reason for a soul to leave and a new, quite similar soul (or any soul of any kind) to take its place. I assume that all human oriented souls are, equal in whatever conditions they originally find themselves. I can understand the concept of souls bonding but not as links in a chain. Understanding may come from the soul, that is, in striking a balanced medium for the heartanmind to exist in as 'humanity' without a physical body.

         I am at a loss as to how Grandma 14 will use my imagined experience of having one soul leave and another take its place. My reasoning, imagination and intuition suggests that only one soul exists which all humanity shares but when the heartanmind (within these fictions) is 'touched' by soul for protection, the said heartanmind, is drawn to 'feel' (similar to the pebble in the shoe) that it is surrounded (as the meat in a walnut shell) for protection when in fact the 'soul substance' is but a single one dimensional (or less) string. This is what I think leading into Grandma 14.

         I'm glad you finally feel you have this metaphysical dilemma settled for the night. - Post. - Amorella