What is a soul really?
 

Hi everyone,

So there's talk of soul family and soulmates but what is a soul exactly? Obviously in the 5 years that I have been delving into spirituality I have heard of past lives and souls splitting and soul evolution but I'm still having a hard time understanding what it is. What's a soul really?

Thanks for your help 🙂

I've posted it before on here, maybe it helps you.
It's the clearest explanation I've found.

http://www.wisdomsdoor.com/rc4/hrc4-07.php

Interesting! Thank you very much

I see my body as my soul, in a way. I don’t belief in some external piece of me. It’s all within. Just my opinion.

Much kindness,

CW

Legend I was first born I went into my soul spirit- it was kinda transparent energy vibrating: I felt connect to the vastness and held matters of enlightenment far greater than materialistic I’m quite materialistic so it was a awakening- I didn’t fear reincarnation, or pain they were body constraints—- I was free: until the real body showed up which is deep in the rabbit hole and matrix! I felt plugged in to the matrix from my birth into existence- and knew this would be the pain world it was inevitable…

But it wasn’t as i was standing in my soul I had beaten the ‘matrix we live in’

For me the simplest way to understand the Soul is Consciousness.

The Consciousness which gazes out of our eyes, the Silent Observer which watches our thoughts and emotions and actions, the Consciousness which will eventually discard the physical body and move on to other realms of activity.

If we struggle to connect with the Soul, it is not because it is so far away but because it is so close that we are unaware of it. It is what we are.

Peace

I've been in a very high vibrational state a few times, at home during meditation and once during a workshop, where my Soul entered my body.
Guess what. It can't! It is huge beyond imagination. Until you've felt that you cannot even begin to imagine how vast it is.
Then you get what they say that only a tiny tiny piece of it is in your body with you.
So it isn't inside of you. It doesn't fit. Not even close. It is a glorious feeling to be so connected to the whole though, I sat here with a huge grin on my face.
I could draw in more than I usually have but again, still a tiny tiny bit of what the entirety of the Soul is.
It's like one thin, small thread of a long coat that's within you. You can't get the entire coat in no matter what you do. It does NOT fit.
Really amazing!

When you make your transition you reunite with your entire Soul, which is why you then have a full grasp and understanding of everything and anything.

You are a soul, you are the soul. Conscious and endowed free will, the ability to think, feel and express yourself. You as a soul are clothed in a human body which is your physical clothing of expression. Like an earth suit. You can't operate in space as a human without an spacesuit, and you certainly can't operate as a soul on earth without an earth suit. You also have subtle forms of expression such as those other bodies in the spirit world. You go to sleep, are in deep meditation or whatever and you leave your earth suit and can travel as a soul (self - consciousness) or you can don a spirit suit to interact and express your self/soul as a spirit being on spiritual planes.

Each persona defines themselves and their deeper being in their
own way. No one is an authority on anyone else. What we call ”soul”
is called by different names in different cultures and by different
languages, and is viewed differently by different beliefs and practices.

I prefer the term my deeper being, and as I have come to know it,
it is beyond words and thoughts. It is an experience for me that
transcends codification. I enjoy the constant companionship of my
own inner light, thoughts suspended it brings me naked clarity, peace,
and a sweet overwhelming presence. For me, there no definitions exist.

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The Sufi Mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan, under whose son I practiced for years, said pretty much the same thing and I use his definition for the "soul".

He simply said that "the soul is energy loaded with consciousness".

One thing to keep in mind is it's not the consciousness we perceive as being local. It's the illumination of that perception of local consciousness.

I'm not a big fan of Sadhguru but he said something that helped me and that is to open a small space between mind and Consciousness, and I was able to relate that to the experience of deep and effortless meditation.

Whoa, what? :D :icon_scratch: LOL

Indeed. Which is why I draw a distinction between consciousness (with a small 'c') and Consciousness (with a capital 'C').

And I suppose we could also talk about an even greater Consciousness as CONSCIOUSNESS.

It would be helpful if the English language had different words for these different states. Never mind.

Peace

It's probably the ultimate viveka. Discernment between I Am and That which illumines the knowing of I Am. Between pure consciousness and consciousness reflected in mind.

Here is a comprehensive discussion on Spirit and Soul, from our fellow forum member Spirit Guide Sparrow: https://spiritguidesparrow.wordpress...ul-and-spirit/

Yup. I would define consciousness (with a small 'c') as Ahamkara's appropriation of Consciousness (with a capital 'C') as its own. I am conscious vs. I Am Consciousness itself.

May I say...this is a link to much more, gang....a short list:

• Astral Projection and Near Death Experience
• Emotion
• Traumatic Death and Suicide
• Planning Future Lives, Remembering Past Lives
• Love
• Soul Mates, Sex and Spirit
• Intention, Manifestation, Passion, Creativity
• ET Agendas
• Fate of the Earth
• At Death
• Akashic Record and Life Review
• Consciousness and Doorways
• Karma

Wow thank you very much for this! Makes me wonder how people come to know things like this

I would say sitting in complete silence for a very long time...otherwise called meditation.
Cuz...wow...do Divine Insights pop in!! :hug3:

The soul is personification of the Spirit which is one, in all of us. And the souls are numerous, maybe innumerable. The reason for all our conflicts is not the difference of our souls, but the unconsciousness about our equality in the Spirit. The consciousness about our Unity will make the difference something most beautuful, because we can realize that we can only learn from each other. That is an enlightenment.
One more hint - We don't have souls. We are the souls. We have bodies. Use them! (The souls) :smile:

This is interesting, thank you. What do you make of the fact that we all have different personalities and inclinations though? And by personality I dont mean the mask we wear in the world but our true selves

I think the variety is what makes world interesting and motional. It will be boring place if people are totally same, even being enlightened.
The difference we have, we need enlightenment as we need air.

Oh I don't think I phrased my point correctly. What I meant was, why are we different if we are equal in spirit in your opinion?

If you wanted to watch a play ...wouldn't you want there to be various characters? :smile:

Uh yes sure lol. I need long, detailed, philosophical explanations Miss H. I don't do so well with practical :wink:

I don't know. Maybe God wants the variety :)
It's a paradox of the truth, a total equality and total diversity in a same time. As someone said we are all equal in different ways.

Not sure I can give a physical description of a soul. But we can think of it as an owner of a bank account, except that this account holder does not deposit or withdraw cash into or from his account. Rather it is a story of his actions and experiences.

We can see the past and future lives as the account being claimed by the same account holder wearing different masks in different lives.

Soul evolution can be thought of as the story of the account holder getting better with time or successive births.

Sometimes the account holder's actions get worse instead of better. It is like getting into debt that is too large to handle by one debtor. But the debt has to be paid. Perhaps the merciful universe lets a second account holder share the debt that is too much of a burden for one person to discharge. If this happens, it is the mercy of the universe making the debt tolerable.

the soul is label for some thing we cant understand or comprehend in its vastness
its not thing that has boundary's and is unique to every individual
the big question what dose it mean and its potential create in you

just my thoughts

In my opinion, a soul is a unit of Consciousness trapped in a body.:smile:

This one really got me ---good one!
Hopefully - through deep meditation it is not so trapped, tho!
Well, and then you have the Astral projection folks...:tongue:

:biggrin: you know what I mean.

I sure do!

The Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan, under whose son I practiced for some time, defined the soul as "energy loaded with consciousness". That is the definition that I also use and it seems very consistent with what you just wrote so concisely and precisely. :thumbsup:

Because there are differences in soul. Soul has not consciously yet chosen! There is diversity in souls to.

Does this apply to learning?

Hi lemex, It applied to something she said before that...can't rem what. It's there somewhere.

I think one finds it not unique (set) but relative. Changeable.

the soul is really what ever you believe it to be their for unique to every individual
my soul is the connection to everything and teaching me things all the time
that's me my soul is limitless

Does the soul have a gender, what do you think? What are we gonna be on the another world afterlife?

The soul is the part of us that records all of our activities throughout our incarnations, it follows us from one body to the next and is the aspect of us that holds our various spiritual bodies. The soul does not animate the body, it is not the spark of life, of the divine within us, that is what the Hindu`s call the Atman.
The Atman leaves when we die, returning only when we reincarnate. The soul and atman do not have gender, that is a human condition.