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Originally Posted by TipToe  Are you sure we have a soul Anagogy? |
Yes, I'm sure. I wish I could confer that same sureness to you, but unfortunately I cannot.
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Originally Posted by TipToe Doesn't having a soul imply that we actually exist? |
Yes it
does imply that you
actually exist. Do you think that you don't exist?
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Originally Posted by TipToe I remember hearing Deepak Chopra and Lynne McTaggart say we don't have souls because we don't really exist. Our bodies are illusions. So saying we have a soul acknowledges that our body is real. |
When I say you
have a soul, I mean that you *are* a soul. And what is a soul? A soul is consciousness. You are the consciousness looking out the eyes of the body from a first person perspective. And you most
definitely exist. You are
existence itself. Consciousness equals existence. One does not occur without the other. They are the same.
I'm not sure what our friends Deepak and Lynne were trying to get across, but I assure you, your awareness is NOT an illusion, or an artifact of neurology. Consciousness creates form -- it is not the other way around.
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Originally Posted by TipToe I dunno... not sure what I believe anymore.
I've also been thinking that my father is probably alive in many other universes after hearing Michio Kaku talk about the many worlds theory. I might be dead in many of them too. |
True, and very possible. And from my perspective, not just possible, but very plausible. But are those other "versions" you? I suppose it depends what your definition of "self" is. I define "me" as what I am aware of. From a broader perspective, you can abstractly say all consciousness is one, and you would be accurate. But at an experiential level, you are only consciously aware of a specific slice of existence, and that is your current "self" even if your conscious "slice" is, at some point, going to expand to a larger one.
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Originally Posted by TipToe Funny thing happens, every time I think of him while I'm driving, a car just like his passes by, sometimes with a man driving alone who looks just like him. Happened atleast 10 times since his death, no matter where I am.  |
This is a natural effect of the law of attraction.