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Basically, the Soul is the unique source of your self.
Consider:
that our human soul is a living system, just like our earth, the life in it, our natural ecosystem, living within a larger universe system.
What do I mean by the word “living”?
It is alive, changing, interconnected and responsive to all the parts that make up the whole.
What is unique about the human soul system?
It is well known that the human being is a unique species in the larger ecosystem scientists call the natural world.
What is unique about humans?
Two important unique characteristics: (1) our capacity for self-awareness, allowing us to choose more of our actions, and (2) our co-creative capacities, which have far-reaching impacts on one another and all aspects of our world.
Humans’ creative capacities are able to create thoughts and feelings affecting self and others. These kinds of creative capacities are used in advertising, sales, politics, leadership, and social change, to influence people to think and feel and behave in certain ways.
What are the characteristics of the soul?
The soul is the underlying causal layer of each unique human being. The soul directly generates our motivations and emotions, and therefore shapes our actions and choices.
Thus the soul is the underlying unique source of human’s physical and spiritual body.
Your soul is the infinite aspect of your individuality that lives on beyond the physical material body.
With this definition, the soul can be conceptualized as a causal system underlying the personal uniqueness of each human being, plus it is the connection to universal source – that being/creator/divinity that sources all human souls and the universe in which they live.
This definition is not presenting something new…instead it combines concepts presented across religions, philosophies, spiritual traditions.
However, different words for soul are used across various communities.
Five of the world’s major religions — Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism — describe some version of a “self” which lives on after the physical body dies. But each imagines the origin, journey, and destination in different ways, and thus their narrative stories in books/bibles use different words emerging from various human languages over time.
The soul exists at three levels or dimensions simultaneously: physical, subtle, and causal.
Your physical material body and subtle etheric energy body are two vehicles through which the soul expresses itself on earth and in the universe, respectively. Your soul is the causal source dimension of your whole being and unique body.