your soul

[anthony c]

Were does your soul reside.
I hear people say its deep in your heart,middle of your head?
So were do u think it is located at??
What is your soul exactly??
thanks

Originally Posted by anthony c

Were does your soul reside.
I hear people say its deep in your heart,middle of your head?
So were do u think it is located at??
What is your soul exactly??
thanks

As far as I understand its in a higher dimension and this limited existence is like an aspect of one. Think of it as "remote control".

But as for the "where" could the soul actually be... I don't think the question is really appropriate because concepts such as location really are irrelevant in that higher dimension.

[redstone]

Is it really 'your' soul is another question to add to that.

my view is that the universal mind interfaces with the brain on a quantum level and the brain limits it's application in the physical plain, this universal mind is given to all creatures and fawna, and it only has locality and limitation with us and other animals.

[organic born]

Originally Posted by redstone

Is it really 'your' soul is another question to add to that.

my view is that the universal mind interfaces with the brain on a quantum level and the brain limits it's application in the physical plain, this universal mind is given to all creatures and fawna, and it only has locality and limitation with us and other animals.

That is the big one isn't it!

We have our conditioned daily experience of "I", the people around me, those that I work with, shop with, watch on tv, all clearly appear to be distinct individuals. And yet each one of us is living a story. Should myself, or any of those I encounter, have a major stroke in the left side of our brains we could easily forget our personal story and the imprint of those closest to us. So Identity, as we perceive it, is provably conditional on a workable brain. No brain, no identity. This happened to a brain scientist named Jill Bolte Taylor, of which she goes into some detail at the following Ted Talks link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTrJqmKoveU

But there seems to be a difference between identity and consciousness in it's purest form. She was still fully conscious of herself, only no history.

Stepping out of the body with another perspective is Frank Demarco's book "The Cosmic Internet". Frank is an alumni of the Bob Monroe institute and his guides (who write through him) sound similar to what you're saying above. But then, when reading the book "The Infinite Wisdom of the Akashic Records" the implications are centered more on individuality and privacy. That we can access our own records of this and past lives, but that others can't readily do so.

My working assumption is similar to yours, but, with the way we find ourselves as seemingly distinct in terms of a "private" experience, then there must be some functional importance to this being so. We are a soul, in a body of individualized distinction. We currently are a story of a most temporary nature. The very presence of such "individuality", would suggest it's importance at some functional level.

[Rah nam]

Not anywhere inside the body. Not even in the physical (uni) verse

I understand your question and your point, anthony. I don't think our souls are disconnected from us, nor somehow connected etherically. I think there's a real connection, in the sense that it does, in some way, reside in our physical bodies. It's not attached, of course, and it does come and go for various purposes. As for a specific place... I've come to think of it not as a small discrete "thing, located in a certain spot, but rather as something that, more or less, fills our bodes.

I've been with too many beings (human and nonhuman animals) as they make their transitions and the sense of the soul leaving the body is distinct. It's like peeling off surgical gloves. They peel off and then that last bit at the fingertips is almost like a very gentle and subtle "pop". ("Pop" is not the right word, but I can't think of the right one at the moment.) The soul gently pulls away from the body and then, at the last, the connection between body and soul is no more.

YMMV.

[organic born]

Originally Posted by Everly

I've been with too many beings (human and nonhuman animals) as they make their transitions and the sense of the soul leaving the body is distinct. It's like peeling off surgical gloves. They peel off and then that last bit at the fingertips is almost like a very gentle and subtle "pop". ("Pop" is not the right word, but I can't think of the right one at the moment.) The soul gently pulls away from the body and then, at the last, the connection between body and soul is no more.
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Yes, I left my body while fully awake once and I can concur with the experience you so beautifully described. It was so easy at the time that I still can't understand why we can't leave our body at will, and as often as we'd like to.
The mystery to me is, "what is it that keeps us so absolutely attached while alive"? My body did just fine while I was separate, so our presence in this physical medium should, ideally, be optional.

Originally Posted by organic born

Yes, I left my body while fully awake once and I can concur with the experience you so beautifully described. It was so easy at the time that I still can't understand why we can't leave our body at will, and as often as we'd like to.
The mystery to me is, "what is it that keeps us so absolutely attached while alive"? My body did just fine while I was separate, so our presence in this physical medium should, ideally, be optional.

That's fascinating, organic. And your question is interesting. I thought about it and am left wondering how long the body would do well without it. I don't know, of course, but this is a very interesting thing to ponder. Would it be okay for minutes? Hours? Days? Forever?

And then I read StormNexus's post...

Originally Posted by StormNexus

I would have typed the very same thing. I have also experienced the "fullness" of the soul through every cell of my body.

You said it better than I did. Thank you.

Originally Posted by StormNexus

Now, to turn this question over and expand the scope of the discussion, I would suggest there is no "end" to the soul we have in our bodies in the conventional sense. What I believe, and modern science can show us, is that 99.9999999% of all matter is "empty" space. Visualize that empty space for a moment - the space between even the densest atom's neutrons, protons and electrons; and then find the "end" of that space... you can't. It extends infinitely in all directions. I believe that it is this space that contains what we think of as "God" because it is the single-largest-connected "thing" in the universe, and it is in each of us.

Perhaps this is the answer to the pondering that organicborn's post caused me to do. Maybe it's precisely because the soul is infinite.

[organic born]

Originally Posted by Everly

That's fascinating, organic. And your question is interesting. I thought about it and am left wondering how long the body would do well without it. I don't know, of course, but this is a very interesting thing to ponder. Would it be okay for minutes? Hours? Days? Forever?

Hard to say, of course. I couldn't hazard a guess based on one episode that only lasted about a minute or so. But considering that our bodies have been running under their own steam, since conception, then I'm thinking it may carry-on for some time. We "consciously" have essentially no say in the inner workings of our bodies. For millions of years it's been fine tuned to operate as a complex self perpetuating organism, with our thinking-self simply hunting down food (which the body tells us it wants and then digests it without our assist). Current studies of the brain suggest that much of what goes on there, as well, is beyond our influence and conscious control. Large swaths of our attachment with the world appears to be programed in much the way that each animal, and insects are, with predetermined caricaturists and traits. Our soul-selves may only represent the smallest fraction of what's present when we consider personality and presence.

"Enlightenment" in itself is perhaps elusive because we'd be having to "leave" the focused confines of our current physical programing, in order to touch on that which transcends this rather potent/perpetual lucid dream?

[StormNexus]

Originally Posted by Everly

I think there's a real connection, in the sense that it does, in some way, reside in our physical bodies. It's not attached, of course, and it does come and go for various purposes. As for a specific place... I've come to think of it not as a small discrete "thing, located in a certain spot, but rather as something that, more or less, fills our bodes.

Everly, I would have typed the very same thing. I have also experienced the "fullness" of the soul through every cell of my body.

Now, to turn this question over and expand the scope of the discussion, I would suggest there is no "end" to the soul we have in our bodies in the conventional sense. What I believe, and modern science can show us, is that 99.9999999% of all matter is "empty" space. Visualize that empty space for a moment - the space between even the densest atom's neutrons, protons and electrons; and then find the "end" of that space... you can't. It extends infinitely in all directions. I believe that it is this space that contains what we think of as "God" because it is the single-largest-connected "thing" in the universe, and it is in each of us.