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Originally Posted by Athena  you mean 'any takers?'  |
The first post had the implied "any takers?" built in. This second post kinda sorta assumed that there were no takers, but I was hoping someone (Steve, are you out there?) would bite.
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Originally Posted by Athena I am tempted to believe that our souls may not actually be individual, but simply parts of a whole force or body of energy, kind of like electricity-- it looks like it is confined to your lamp when it's lit, but after that it goes back to mass undifferentiated form. |
This is an excellent point! And I believe a lot of people are mislead here. When we are in the physical form, we say we can distinguish individual people. As you said we cannot distinguish between the electricity in your house and the electricity in my house. It is all the same electricity to our eyes per se (so is water and air), but we could probably devise ways to distinguish between the two even after they merge when they leave our houses! We just don't care to be able to do it.
My ultimate point is that just because you merged back with the "one soul" after death (of course, the assumption that "with birth to this world we separated from it" is probably wrong to begin with) probably does not mean we cannot distinguish souls any more. Once we go to that dimension, perhaps our soul bodies will have the necessary senses to be able to distinguish between the personalities of different souls including our own.
I guess this is similar to distinguishing radio stations and listening to the one we like amongst the sea of all other electromagnetic radiation. They are all out there simultaneously, and with the right tool (sense) you can tune into a specific one.
To me this says, just because you died out of this body and "merged" with the soul dimension, does not mean you will automatically become consious of something you were not consious of before you got there. However, for some of us, this new soul body will probably make it easier to at least accept that there is more after the death of the "physical" body.