Mid-morning. You feel better after having
had a hot bath earlier, particularly your arthritic conditions. One plus for
the morning is that, though cool, southwest Ohio has clear, thus sunny skies. –
Amorella
0943 hours. I need to go over the Wiki soul material and
cut it down for Merlyn, just the basics.
That would be Plato and Aristotle but, like
I said I’ll help you with that. Just go to the post and I’ll underline what’s
important and we’ll move it here. - Amorella
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Soul - condensed Wikipedia
Socrates and Plato
Drawing
on the words of his teacher Socrates, Plato considered the psyche to be the
essence of a person, being that which decides how we behave. He considered this
essence to be an incorporeal, eternal occupant of our being. Socrates says that
even after death, the soul exists and is able to think.
Plato
also compares the three parts of the soul or psyche to a societal caste system.
According to Plato's theory, the three-part soul is essentially the same thing
as a state's class system because, to function well, each part must contribute
so that the whole functions well.
Aristotle
Aristotle
(384 BC – 322 BC) defined the soul or psyche (ψυχή) as the “first actuality” of
a naturally organized body,
Avicenna and Ibn al-Nafis
Avicenna
(Ibn Sina) and Ibn al-Nafis, a Persian philosopher, They both made a
distinction between the soul and the spirit, and the Avicennian doctrine on the
nature of the soul was influential among the Scholastics. Some of Avicenna's
views on the soul include the idea that the immortality of the soul is a
consequence of its nature, and not a purpose for it to fulfill.
He thus
concludes that the idea of the self is not logically dependent on any physical
thing, and that the soul should not be seen in relative terms, but as a primary
given, a substance.
Ibn
al-Nafis defined the soul as nothing other than "what a human indicates by
saying "I".
Thomas
Aquinas
Concerning
the human soul, his epistemological theory required that, since the knower
becomes what he knows, the soul is definitely not corporeal—if it is corporeal
when it knows what some corporeal thing is, that thing would come to be within
it. Therefore, the soul has an operation, which does not rely on a bodily
organ, and therefore the soul could subsist without a body. Furthermore, since
the rational soul of human beings is a subsistent form and not something made
of matter and form, it cannot be destroyed in any natural process.
Immanuel
Kant
It is
from the "I", or soul, that Kant proposes transcendental
rationalization, but cautions that such rationalization can only determine the
limits of knowledge if it is to remain practical.
James
Hillman
Thomas
Moore associates spirit with "afterlife, cosmic issues, idealistic values
and hopes, and universal truths", while placing soul "in the thick of
things: This happens, Moore says, because to transcend the "lowly
conditions of the soul ... is to lose touch with the soul, and a split-off
spirituality, with no influence from the soul, readily falls into extremes of
literalism and destructive fanaticism".
Hillman's archetypal psychology
is an attempt to tend to the oft-neglected soul, which Hillman views as the
"self-sustaining and imagining substrate" upon which consciousness
rests.
Hillman described the soul as
that "which makes meaning possible, [deepens] events into experiences, is
communicated in love, and has a religious concern", as well as "a
special relation with death".
Archetypal psychology
acknowledges this third position by attuning to, and often accepting, the
archetypes, dreams, myths, and even psychopathologies through which, in
Hillman's view, soul expresses itself.
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1140
hours. I completed another 40 minutes of exercises, and I am ready to move with
this soul business of narrowing down Merlyn’s definition of a virgin soul, as
it were, going into this.
Already you err, boy. Virgin soul, give me a
brake. – Amorella
1143 hours. You mean like stop?
Souls are virgin? Look it up, my man. – Amorella
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virgin – noun
a
person, typically a woman, who has never had sexual intercourse.
•
a naive, innocent, or inexperienced person, esp. in a particular context: a
political virgin.
adjective
1
being, relating to,
or appropriate for a virgin: his virgin bride.
2
not yet touched,
used, or exploited
Selected
and edited from the Oxford-American software
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1149
hours. In my defense I was using the word in reference “to being inexperienced
with life” and “untouched, used or exploited”.
How do you know these things? – Amorella
1152 hours. I assume the soul is without life, at least
life as defined as being on earth (in this universe) alive and thus being
untouched by human or marsupial humanoid beings.
In here souls are the children of Angels. –
Amorella
I have never heard of such a thing. How can Angels have
children, and why should they? Why don’t they grow up as Angels?
It’s a metaphor, orndorff. – Amorella
1200 hours. Oh.
1225 hours. What about the Nephilim?
You looked it up on Wikipedia. The ‘Children
of Angels’ in this blog relating to your Merlyn books of fiction are as
offshoots of angelic-like beings before physics. In here a Child of Angels is
closer to the light-hearted use of the word ‘sprite’ or ‘faery’. – Amorella
1233 hours. I understand this may be as Merlyn would
say. Interesting. I like the merit of the concept.
Mid-afternoon.
You are at Staples for stick-um-notes then to Graeter’s across the street and
back up to Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery Road, all fairly close to one another.
A short while ago while talking to Kim on the phone she mentioned Tiffney McF.
posted a picture of you and Achilles (former student) talking in front of your
famous Mason podium back in the 1990’s. You were delightfully surprised and
found it has a few hits from students of that era. - Amorella
Achilles and Me, Mason High 1990’s
You
are at Kroger’s – your lucky day, Carol asked for a dollop of hot fudge for her
peppermint stick and you decided on one for your mint chocolate chip and the
young lady rang you up for $5.90. You asked, and she noted that the dollops
were on the house. Needless to say, Carol was pleased, as were you since you
kept the change. – Amorella
1624 hours. Full disclosure, huh, Amorella?
You are thinking about the faery as a Child
of an Angel and like the concept even more. – Amorella
1626 hours. I am. There is a lightness about it. In my
younger youth I was always partial to the faeries I would see drawn in
children’s books. I think of ‘innocence’ yet in the stories there was a lot of
mischief surrounding them, particularly the older Celtic stories. You used the
term ‘offshoot’ of an Angel. I think of a flower or bush or even tall grass.
Now you are cooking with gas, boy. Good.
Remember me saying I am a .......
1632
hours. I forget what you say you are? I want to say, “Outlander” but that is
not correct. I cannot remember – a Betweener. (1634) How can I forget these
nouns?
That’s the main reason you write everything
down, boy. In case you think of something and forget it a few seconds later. –
Amorella
1638 hours. I could have looked it up. I thought about
doing that but what reference would I have used? I had nothing but outlander. Such
is the state of my mental life – always in a wonder of who I am (figuratively)
and what is on or was on my mind (figuratively) seconds ago. I am trying to
think of your characteristics as a Betweener.
It makes no difference here; the point is
that I am using aspects of ‘myself’ for this Angelic/Faery/Soul world for
Merlyn. – Amorella
1645 hours. This makes the concept much more perceivable
to me. It makes it easier to manifest itself in my imagination and giving
reason a more flowery (friendly environmental) face.
Even a faery story can send a sense of truth
to an adult human’s mind, boy.
1652 hours. Tolkien and the Hobbits.
Milton and is a bit too heavy here. –
Amorella
1721 hours. We are home. That’s kind, Amorella, even for
a pretend Angel to lighten up the story a bit.
Where’s your dark humor, boy? Amorella
1727. Ho, ho, ho! That builds a fire under the kettle.
Great humor.
No deed goes unnoticed, boy. If so, where
would your words come from? – Amorella
You
are suddenly thinking of Angels as giant black gnats. – Amorella
1733 hours. I don’t know where that came from but I’m
hoping it will go away because I am embarrassed at the thought. This is how it
was once. I thought you were a real Angel and such a thought would pop up and
I’d be terrified of myself because I could hide no such thoughts from a real
Angel and the thoughts just kept coming – worse and worse thoughts – who knew I
had such thoughts so far down, so deep as to where an Angel might dwell. No
place to hide. Finally I forgave myself, that part of my humanity, and let it
go. I just let it all go, that and the whole world.
Yes. You did do this. I would not be here if
you had not. – Amorella
1739 hours. Even as imagination I see you angelic-like
in your kind forgiving nature. It’s okay. I put my private fears away. I just
want to write a good story for my grandchildren. A friendly story about how it
is to have danced with an Angel in my own adult once-upon-a-time Make-Believe.
Now, this is the honesty I want out there.
You are an open glass, orndorff, and have nothing to fear from Angels, real or
imaginary in here. Post. – Amorella
1744 hours. This appears as self-praise..
Evening. You watched NBC News and an old
“This Old House Hour”. Otherwise, Carol had on the House and Garden Channel. You
had a piece of toast with peanut butter and some delicious peach jam on top for
supper. Carol has gone upstairs to finish her new Grisham book Kim got her for
Xmas. You have read into the two thirty some pages of “A Short History” and are
enjoying it for what it is – a reminder of how things sometimes work on this
planet when you are a scientist. – Amorella
2128 hours. I am a pretend scientist in fiction. I want to
know more about these Angels work in the universe of my Merlyn. Are they like
you Amorella? I remember you are as a Caretaker for three or four universes. I
really have no idea how to view this, but I like this initial concept.
First, we need not go further than the
souls. Angels as I use the term are not imaginary; I have no imagination,
remember. – Amorella
2138 hours. On this enlightening reminder I think it
best then to focus on the soul. I imagine them (in context) as blooming,
flowering, with a petal like shell rather than hard shelled like an acorn,
walnut or hickory nut, a mist, something on the order of an atom – round and
fuzzy at the edges but not egg-like; at least this perhaps may be how it would
appear to me were I to view it, but my human limitations would allow me to view
from a human valued nearly abstract environment – as you say, a metaphor. Perhaps,
as such, I would view an Angel in such a setting as a window pane of clear
glass, that is, an Angel would have four cornered points, any of which one
could be stuck with.
This is a consideration, but you will need
to go a step further in you metaphoric environmental system. Describe how I
would look to you as a Betweener in such a like vision. – Amorella
2153 hours. This is good. A very good idea – I begin
with you first then branch to these other spiritual consciousnesses.
Spiritual Consciousness works. – Amorella
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penteract - Noun
(mathematics) A five-dimensional hypercube
Hypercube
– noun
Any of a set of objects
resulting from the generalization of a two-dimensional square and a
three-dimensional cube to n dimensions. A hypercube has 2n
corners, each of which is connected to its n nearest adjacent corners by
edges that all have the same length.
A network whose nodes have the
connectivity of such an object.
Selected from – wiktionary.yourdictionaryDOTcom
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An
all-seeing eye-like construction, something unique in shape: a penteract graph
or image (see below)
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Penteract Graph
From Wikipedia Commons
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Penteract Image via Google
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2308 hours. I made this too
complicated an eye of one dimension is enough. The very first image that came
to mind is the eye on the dollar bill but I thought it was too simple, but
simple may be the kindest point of all, at least from my perspective. Otherwise,
I could not hope to translate and understand.
Like your original book covers, blue and
white rather than green and white. Good night, orndorff. Post. - Amorella
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