I appreciate this sketch. I must have come across this back in the day and then forgot only for me to recall it here via my "rebirth-waking up again" metaphor.Pythagoras or some other Greek philosopher went to Egypt in search of higher knowledge. The Egyptians believed that the Sun god was reborn every day anew. The human soul was similar to the Sun god. In popular belief it was reborn into the afterlife after death. But esoteric tradition held that it was reborn many times unless it was initiated into higher mysteries. Pythagoras or other Greeks took this secret knowledge to Greece and the Greek colonies on the Italic Peninsula. — Apollodorus
I appreciate this sketch. I must have come across this back in the day and then forgot only for me to recall it here via my "rebirth-waking up again" metaphor. — 180 Proof
Stop there. What is the soul?The soul (psyche) has a higher aspect that remains in contact with the Universal Intelligence (Nous)... — Apollodorus
What is the soul? — Banno
but how is Apollodorus the same as Napoleon? — Banno
Evidence for what? — Apollodorus
The soul is a form of intelligent energy. An immaterial substance that has the power of knowledge and action, of being aware of itself and of other things and of acting upon or interacting with itself and other things.
The physical body (soma) contains the metaphysical soul (psyche) which contains the spirit (pneuma or nous).
The spirit has two two aspects, (1) one that always contemplates the Universal Intelligence and does not descend into the physical world, and (2) one that is connected to the soul and incarnates in a body in the physical world. — Apollodorus
The soul is a form of intelligent energy. — Apollodorus
As for 'mind', the term refers to an object that bears mental states. — Bartricks
So all you're really saying is something like a universal soul or mind or patterns of attachment is/are constantly dying and being reincarnated as every subsequent being? — Janus
The soul is a form of intelligent energy. An immaterial substance that has the power of knowledge and action, of being aware of itself and of other things and of acting upon or interacting with itself and other things. — Apollodorus
Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there’s no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die. If you claim that some form of soul persists beyond death, what particles is that soul made of? What forces are holding it together? How does it interact with ordinary matter?
Morphic resonance is the influence of previous structures of activity on subsequent similar structures of activity organized by morphic fields. It enables memories to pass across both space and time from the past. The greater the similarity, the greater the influence of morphic resonance. What this means is that all self-organizing systems, such as molecules, crystals, cells, plants, animals and animal societies, have a collective memory on which each individual draws and to which it contributes. In its most general sense this hypothesis implies that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits.
On the back of the head of a little boy in Thailand was a small, round puckered birthmark, and at the front was a larger, irregular birthmark, resembling the entry and exit wounds of a bullet; Stevenson had already confirmed the details of the boy’s statements about the life of a man who’d been shot in the head from behind with a rifle, so that seemed to fit. And a child in India who said he remembered the life of boy who’d lost the fingers of his right hand in a fodder-chopping machine mishap was born with boneless stubs for fingers on his right hand only. This type of “unilateral brachydactyly” is so rare, Stevenson pointed out, that he couldn’t find a single medical publication of another case.
Very roughly speaking, when most people think about an immaterial soul that persists after death, they have in mind some sort of blob of spirit energy that takes up residence near our brain, and drives around our body like a soccer mom driving an SUV.
"Studied the subject?" Those old dudes just made some shit up with which to spackle the huge cracks in the haunted houses of woo they'd built. Brilliant, even genius, woo is still just woo.It's the opinion of those who studied the subject. Read Plato, Plotinus, and other philosophers. — Apollodorus
Not quite. The Universal Intelligence (Nous) emanates individual intelligences or souls (nous/psyche) which are reborn time and again until they eventually return to their original source like sea waves rising from and subsiding back into the sea. But that's just one way of looking at it. — Apollodorus
This is not to say that the soul is a field, but that it might be much more conceivable in terms of fields than of particles, or of energy. — Wayfarer
However, supposing we accept reincarnation either as fact or as theoretical possibility, how would we convincingly justify it in philosophical terms? — Apollodorus
Why would you need to justify it in any terms, once you have already accepted it? — god must be atheist
a researcher by the name of Ian Stevenson assembled a considerable body of data on children with recall of previous lives. — Wayfarer
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How many Joules in a soul?
— Banno
How many Joules in anger or fear? — Apollodorus
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