The Soul: Living Rooms, Television Sets and Reporters (the soul, pt 2 of 4)

 (Continuation of "The Soul: Living Rooms, Televisions Sets and Reporters part 1; The Body)

The trait that makes a human being human is the soul, but what is the soul? In order to understand the soul, one must examine the religious aspect of it.

According to Christianity, the soul is an eternal being. With this in mind, one must dissect this idea of eternity, especially when it relegates to existence in a time constrained universe. So one must agree the soul is an eternal identity, which means that a human has eternal qualities existing within. The question then arises, what makes our soul eternal?

As Socrates states in Phaedo, the soul must have preexisted before it was attached to the body and it is difficult to believe that one’s parents had the power to create an eternal being (or entrap a preexisting eternal being) during copulation. So this meaning epicenters the notion that our soul had to have been in existence before being ensnared by a body. Since the soul is eternal, it must have been created in an eternal universe. In this eternal universe, God must have created our souls without the restrictions present in a mortal dimension.

With this concept, one is left with a God in an eternal universe creating eternal souls. So that explains where the soul was created and from this standpoint, the human being begins conception. The soul is an infinite being that was created out of time and was forced into time embodied in the physical body. A very interesting aspect of this is the difference in time. The soul is immortal, created out of time, and the body is a physical thing, obviously stuck in a dimension ruled by time. Assumedly, the soul should not be able to interact and function with the body, since both essentially speak different languages. This difference in language is resolved with the entity of consciousness.





Consciousness is human awareness, it is literally how things are perceived and examined.

Human consciousness is the translator that enables the soul to interact with the stop-watched world. For instance, one has the physical body and the eternal soul which are unable to interact with each other. So the soul and the body exhibit different units of measurements which need to be converted in order for the two to be involved in any type of equation with each other. The translator comes in the form of consciousness.

Consciousness configures the perception of the body into a language understood by the soul. So with this theory, the soul is able to remain an eternal being, even though trapped in a body. Furthermore, the question of a difference in universe and dimension is answered through consciousness.

There is the body which experiences time and the physical realm, the soul which is the essence of life and an eternal being, and consciousness, which binds the two together in order to create a human. Under this understanding of the soul and a human, one has the basis to state what a human being is, a soul that perceives the physical world through consciousness.

However, upon further introspection, one comes to the problem of existence, why is the human being here and most importantly, why have millions of these eternal souls been ripped out of eternity and splattered across time? For this answer, one begins the road of spirituality.