Early
afternoon. You are waiting for Carol at Carter’s at the VOA on Cox Road off
Tylersville. This is the first of several stops for errands; lunch next at Panera/Chipotle. - Amorella
You are southwest of Macy’s in Kenwood –
out in the parking lot which is full. You spent ten minutes driving around
looking for a spot after dropping Carol off at the usual south entrance. –
Amorella
1358 hours. Lunch was really good. I have not
seen this lot so full since last Christmas. If I was going to do something I
have forgotten what it is. – Spiritual consciousness drafting is the focus.
(1408)
You
locked the car – too many people around for your immediate comfort. What we can
do is on the spiritual consciousness draft. I’ll underline helpful points. –
Amorella
Mid-afternoon. I, the Amorella, have set
up for a second draft of ‘spiritual consciousness’ by underlining and bolding
particular useful aspects for definition that can be broadened into individual
definitions for A. souls; B. hearts and C. minds. The key is the medium in
which soulmate exists. Here it is. - Amorella
***
Second Draft -
around 1400 hours. - looking for main points:
Soul (edited from Wikipedia)
Selected
and Edited From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, for the specific purpose of
creating a working definition of “spiritual consciousness” for use in Soki’s
Choice. - rho
In many religions, philosophical, and mythological traditions,
the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. In
Judeo-Christianity, only human beings have immortal souls.
Science
The findings of science may be relevant to one's understanding
of the soul depending on one's belief regarding the relationship between the
soul and the mind. Another may be one's belief regarding the relationship
between the soul and the body. One problem with seeking scientific evidence
for the soul is that there is no clear or unique definition of what the soul
is, as it usually varies from one belief to another.
Neuroscience and the soul
Neuroscience as an interdisciplinary field, and its branch of
cognitive neuroscience particularly, operates under the ontological assumption
of physicalism. In other words, it assumes—in order to perform its
science—that only the fundamental phenomena studied by physics exist.
Thus, neuroscience seeks to understand mental phenomena within
the framework according to which human thought and behavior are caused solely
by physical processes taking place inside the brain, and it operates by the way
of reduction by seeking an explanation for the mind in terms of brain activity.
To study the mind in terms of the brain several methods of functional neuroimaging are used to study the
neuroanatomical correlates of various cognitive processes that constitute the
mind.
Physics and the soul
Physicist Sean M. Carroll has written that the idea of a soul is in opposition to
quantum field theory (QFT). He writes that for a soul to exist: "Not
only is new physics required, but dramatically new physics. Within QFT, there
can’t be a new collection of 'spirit particles' and 'spirit forces' that
interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in
existing experiments."
Quantum indeterminism has been invoked by some theorists as a
solution to the problem of how a soul might interact with the brain but
neuroscientist Peter Clarke found errors with this viewpoint, noting there is
no evidence that such processes play a role in brain function; and concluded
that a Cartesian soul has no basis from quantum physics.
Biology and the soul
Biologist
Cyrille Barrette (fr) has written that "the soul is a word to designate an
idea we invented to represent the sensation of being inhabited by an existence,
by a conscience".
Barrette explains, using simple examples in a short self-published article,
that the soul is a property emerging from the complex organisation of matter in
the brain.
Theosophy
In Helena Blavatsky’s Theosophy, the soul is the field of our
psychological activity (thinking, emotions, memory, desires, will, and so on)
as well as of the so-called paranormal or psychic phenomena (extrasensory
perception, out-of-body experiences, etc.). However, the soul is not the
highest, but a middle dimension of human beings. Higher than the soul is the
spirit, which is considered to be the real self; the source of everything
we call "good"—happiness, wisdom, love, compassion, harmony, peace,
etc. While the spirit is eternal and incorruptible, the soul is not. The
soul acts as a link between the material body and the spiritual self, and
therefore shares some characteristics of both. The soul can be attracted either
towards the spiritual or towards the material realm, being thus the
"battlefield" of good and evil. It is only when the soul is attracted
towards the spiritual and merges with the Self that it becomes eternal and
divine.
Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner differentiated three stages of soul development, which
interpenetrate one another in consciousness:
- The "sentient soul", centering on sensations,
drives, and passions, with strong conative (will) and emotional
components; Heart
- The "intellectual" or "mind soul",
internalizing and reflecting on outer experience, with strong affective
(feeling) and cognitive (thinking) components; and Mind
The "consciousness soul", in search of universal,
objective truths.
Philosophical views
The soul was considered the incorporeal or spiritual
"breath" that animates the living organism.
Socrates and Plato
Greek philosophers understood that the soul must have a logical
faculty, the exercise of which was the most divine of human actions
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. He believed that as bodies die, the soul is continually reborn in
subsequent bodies and Plato believed this as well, however, he thought that
only one part of the soul was immortal (logos). The Platonic soul
consists of three parts:
- the logos, (mind
or reason)
- the thymos,
(emotion, spiritedness, or masculine) Heart
- the eros,
(appetitive, desire, or feminine) Heart
Avicenna
and Ibn al-Nafis
Avicenna
(Ibn Sina) and Ibn al-Nafis, a Persian philosopher, both made a distinction
between the soul and the spirit. Some of Avicenna's views on the soul
include the idea that the immortality of the soul is a consequence of its nature.
[Their]
argument was later refined and simplified by Rene Descartes in epistemic
terms, when he stated: "I can abstract from the supposition of all
external things, but not from the supposition of my own consciousness."
al-Nafis
concluded that "the soul is related primarily neither to the spirit nor to
any organ, but rather to the entire matter whose temperament is prepared to
receive that soul," and he 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 body organ, and therefore the soul can exist 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
In his
discussions of rational psychology, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) identified the
soul as the "I" in the strictest sense, and argued that the existence
of inner experience can neither be proved nor disproved. "We cannot prove
a priori the immateriality of the soul, but rather only so much: that all
properties and actions of the soul cannot be recognized from materiality".
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.
Hinduism
In Hinduism, the Sanskrit words most closely corresponding to
soul are jiva, Atman, and “purusha”,
meaning the individual self. The term "soul" is misleading as it
implies an object possessed, whereas Self signifies the subject which perceives
all objects. This Self (Ātman) is held to be distinct from the various mental
faculties such as desires, thinking, understanding, reasoning and self-image
(ego), all of which are considered to be part of prakriti (nature).
In Bhagavad Gita 2.20
Lord Krishna describes the atman in the following way: [translation]
"For the atman [the
soul] there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into
being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn,
eternal, ever – existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain".
[Translation by A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Srila Prabhupada)]
Srila Prabhupada, a great Vaishnava saint of the modern time
further explains: "The atman does not take birth there, and the
atman does not die... And because the atman [soul] has no birth, he therefore has no past, present or future. He
is eternal, ever-existing and primeval – that is, there is no trace in history
of his coming into being."
Since the quality of Atma [soul]
is primarily consciousness, all sentient
and insentient beings are pervaded by Atma, including plants, animals, humans
and gods. The difference between them is the contracted or expanded state of
that consciousness.
For example, animals and humans share in common the desire to
live, fear of death, desire to procreate and to protect their families and territory
and the need for sleep, but animals' consciousness is more contracted and
has less possibility to expand than does human consciousness.
When the Atma becomes embodied it is called birth, when the
Aatma leaves a body it is called death. The Aatma transmigrates from one body to another body based on karmic
[performed deeds] reactions.
In
Hinduism, the Sanskrit word most closely corresponding to soul is Atma, which
can mean soul or even
God. It is seen as the portion of Brahman within us. Hinduism contains many
variant beliefs on the origin, purpose, and fate of the atma.
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***
2028 hours. I haven’t been on the computer
since afternoon.
After
Macy’s you had a Graeter’s then you took Carol home because she didn’t have
anything to read to pass the time while you shopped for your Fitbit. You drove
to Best Buy found the Fitbit Charge for one hundred and forty-nine dollars,
bought it returned home. Watched TV then had supper (three cut up hot turkey
dogs with small pieces of melted Velveeta cheese on top), watched ABC and NBC
News and an episode of “Blue Bloods”.
2034 hours. I set up the Fitbit in short order, fully charge it and have it on to
check my sleep tonight.
Carol
is watching one of her shows, “Hawaii Five O”. All for tonight, boy. Post. –
Amorella
2037 hours. The time went quickly while
underlining and bolding on the edit. I felt like I hadn’t done anything when it
was completed. I am getting a clearer notion about how this is more central to
the story than I supposed it would be. The story is moving in a different direction
than I suspected. More subtle – soulmates – who would have thought.
2051 hours. I have no idea how this is going to come about.
2104 hours. I am intrigued Amorella. Who
are the two characters?
Yermey
and Pyl. – Amorella
2105 hours. Why, the focus is on the three
Earthlings and three Marsupial humanoids?
The
focus is on Diplomat’s pouch. This is the Soki’s choice. – Amorella
2110 hours. The first thing that comes to
mind is Pandora’s Box not Diplomat's pouch.
This
is your consciousness and unconsciousness at work, boy. Post. - Amorella
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