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Old 25-08-2012, 05:01 PM
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Souls vs. Spirits

Can someone explain the difference to me? :)
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Old 25-08-2012, 05:41 PM
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IDK but I'd like to hear the responses too. I just have vague ideas.

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Old 25-08-2012, 05:58 PM
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Greetings..

It is my understanding, that 'spirit' is a generalized reference to the interconnectedness of all that is and isn't, and.. 'soul' is our individualized claim to a portion of that interconnectedness/spirit, as our 'spirit identity', not unlike the notion of 'ego'.. i understand this as 'energy', and our perceptions of it..

Be well..
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Old 25-08-2012, 06:52 PM
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It's just a matter of how one uses the terms, but this is how I see it.

I use "soul" to mean the pure consciousness that is our essence of being and is eternal and unchanging.

I use "spirit" to mean the energy light body that develops and evolves, and carries memories and patterns from one lifetime to another.

Some people use those terms oppositely.


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Old 25-08-2012, 06:57 PM
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I use "soul" to mean the pure consciousness that is our essence of being and is eternal and unchanging.

Is there really any part of us that is unchanging?

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Old 25-08-2012, 06:57 PM
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Can someone explain the difference to me? :)

Not sure I have the meaning of the post .

Do you mean one's spirit or spirit as in the mind body in etheric form .

The great spirit or the soul are one and the same .

One spirit or one soul individualised just adds flavour to the one .

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Old 25-08-2012, 07:02 PM
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Soul is a word from Old English and spirit is a word from Old French.

We have two words for many things too, pig/pork, chicken/poultry, etc. Any ideas that contend there's a massive difference in meaning of the words, aren't going to be hard and fast by any means.
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Old 25-08-2012, 07:15 PM
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Is there really any part of us that is unchanging?

L

Yes. The core of being, our intrinsic empty awareness itself never changes... only what we are aware of.


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Old 25-08-2012, 07:25 PM
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Greetings..

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Is there really any part of us that is unchanging?

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Hi Lora: No, being aware of something adds to that which we are, changing the nature of our existence.. even in deep silence of eternal nothingness, there is what was and what will be again, there is naught that is unchanging.. one's personal beliefs may be unchanging, but that is a temporary condition relative to a 'personal' reference..

Be well..
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Old 25-08-2012, 09:16 PM
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My personal use of the terms will refer to the definition given by Xan, but in opposite order.

To go a bit deeper, I see 'spirit' as the part of us that constitutes the observer of one's soul, as the soul; that which powers the soul as a creation by becoming it. However, this point of awareness by itself, often referred to as 'ego', only knows that which it has experienced since its birth as a soul. But I also see spirit as a projection of awareness that is interconnected with a greater part of itself. So the spirit of one's soul, as having become the soul, only knows itself as a soul within the dimensions of duality. I suppose this is because the soul is designed to make the spirit extension forget its origin as it becomes one with it, just like how the soul forgets its origin when it enters the physical body ("as above, so below"). Regardless, as an extension of a greater part of itself, the part of one's spirit that now constitutes the soul is still connected with its origin as a greater being, as it cannot truly become separate from itself. I think this may suggest that the greater part of our spirit is all-encompassing through all of existence, and thus, in a sense, already exists here with us, as what some people term one's 'higher self'. So spirit is then an extension of itself as awareness integrated within and as the soul, and simultaneously a greater being that exists as a division of 'god', which experiences itself as one with every other division of god as spirits.
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