I think that you and i have different ideas of what constitutes a soul. How would you define the soul?
SOUL is interchangeable with GOD, Existence, Everything, Cosmos, Reality, any word or phrase that denotes
everything.
The meaning behind that
thing that we're talking about SOUL: It is a process, it is the CREATING process. SOUL or GOD is the process of creation we call the Cosmos. The Cosmos then isn't Creation, it's Creating because it's never been finished and never will be. It's an active thing, the word
creation implies something is done and fully made. No, the (
ing) in the word is important. Words and their meaning are important.
Everyone and everything is not running around with their own SOUL. There is no individual Soul, there's just one and we all share in it. It is the animating force that moves us all that makes interaction and all observable dynamics possible; dynamism. Consciousness is a byproduct of dynamism, think about: thoughts are active, they don't sit still, they evolve as they come. They're coming is an activity in itself is it not? Can't see through a raging river, but when the waters
settle, they become
clear.
We all share in SOUL, it cannot be marred by any worldly action because it's greater than our local reality. As I said, the Mind is the buffer that takes the hits. The mind through our life under all that stress eventually becomes a diamond. Not in the sense we're hard people, but luminous, radiate outwardly, enlightenment. It is when Mind radiates as Soul does, no longer affected by the world. Things brush off your shoulders, always. You see reality for what it is.
I don't
own my skin or my skin color, I just am what ever it is. So we don't have "a" SOUL, we
are SOUL.
That need we have to se someone punished, that's the egoic need for control. I had a talk with a friend about dictators in history and he's off the opinion that most of them
got away with it. I tried to tell him he can't base his reality off the things he sees, because we don't even fully understand the whole picture. All dictators die in fear and paranoia of their own making; it's what made them dictators in the first place. Dying is the biggest fear they had, maybe the only one. Because no one more than them believes in a punishing afterlife. Reality is life isn't sinister like that.
We can't stain light or fire, and the soul is that. Light and Fire as we know aren't things in themselves either, both are reactions; made by something else. Both in turn make other things into something else;
dynamism at work. That is life's work.
The bible can be rewritten or actively read as "In the beginning, I created the Heavens and the Earth." Or "In the beginning, thy (means You (God) & I (God) or which ever word for the meaning fits your taste) created the heavens and the earth."
Thy (God, I) implies we were part of or there from the conception of reality. God's omnipresence and wisdom is omni-linear. When he was making all this wasn't each and every one of us in his thoughts when he did so? That means this thing we call creation is not only for us, it was made,
being made with us; this is the active participation science is always looking for in reality. We are it. The
point of the night sky is the
stars. The
point of life is
US. Life comes down to the Cosmos' Conscious Observer; the experiencers, knower, givers and creators of meaning. When we check something out, we're the ones who figure it out and give it meaning. Still performing our duties like Adam. If we are not that, who else is?