The soul:
In some religions, the soul is the immaterial, eternal, ethereal essence of the human being. Sometimes referred to as the spirit, ghosts, life after death and any number of any other poetic imaginings.
But what is a soul?
Well, dear reader, what do you believe the soul to consist of?
An eternity of peace, becoming one with light and hope? or a sticky green "ectoplasm", Ghostbusters style?
The truth is that no-one can define, let alone decide, what the soul is. Dan Brown purports, in a work of popular fiction, obviously, that the soul is a very real, physical entity that has its own, albeit slight, weight and therefore, for the astro-physicists out there, its own gravity.
Do you believe that?
Or do you believe, as my devout catholic family do, that the soul is trapped, emburdened by the very flesh of which you consist. Bound to silent non-existence until your earthly body is laid prostrate and your heavenly spirit may take flight and be at one with the everlasting? The inference being, of course, that life itself is merely a waiting-room, a waiting room filled with tests, but a waiting room nonetheless, until your death.
Personally, I believe that the search for the human soul and, by extension, the search for God and the search for meaning and purpose, is all just a convenient way of deluding ourselves.
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