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What is the human soul.

What is the Human Soul and what is its essence, many, both philosophers and scientists, are looking for. But, the most preferable in this matter is esoteric knowledge, which differs from traditional methods of scientific research.

Each religion recognizes the existence of the Soul, however, each of them has its own concept of it.

People know a lot about the Soul and even gave it very specific characteristics: broad soul a person or vice versa, whether it is weak or strong, it hurts and you can heal it, you can touch it, or you can destroy it. She can die and be reborn. Among the people there is such a concept: “the mysterious Russian Soul” or, for example, he has a “good Soul”, these concepts are sometimes subconsciously torn out of a person’s mouth.

The human soul, what is it from the point of view of esotericism? Its main essence

Modern esotericists offer their own version. For a deeper understanding, let's give some definitions:

The soul of man- this is an information structure, an installed "package" of higher feelings and laws that make us people, not robots with a cold mind, a kind of storage of vital energy (God's Light).

The human soul is energy, it is some part of the consciousness of God (the Creator, the Higher Mind), it is life itself, continuing, changing, transforming. She is immortal and indivisible.

Assumption. It is assumed that when a person develops his soul, he develops the consciousness of God, thereby approaching and reuniting with him. The connection between the consciousness of God and the soul of man is never broken. The ultimate goal of a person is to achieve enlightenment and connect with his deity, connect enough to become the same, that is, to return to his original source. And this assumption is not far from the truth.

The soul is you and is within yourself. A person thinks and feels inside himself as he is, but he cannot express it in words, he is afraid that others will not understand him. It is she who defines a person as a person.

She is the source of eternal life, she is its meaning. It is the Soul that motivates a person to develop, not to stop there, to look for new ways of functioning and reproduces itself, thus creating an absolute self-supporting system of life. Life in the body, the Soul is necessary for accelerated development, which can be accelerated hundreds of times.

Shapes (characteristics) Souls

Soul- this is energy in the form of a small ball, with a diameter of 30 to 150 mm., Consists of 12 chakras, has a very complex energy structure. This energy consists of invisible silver threads, in the center of which there is a luminous point.

American scientists in a series of experiments have found that at the time of death, a person immediately loses weight from 3 to 7 grams. Therefore, we can conclude that the "weight" of the Soul is 3-10 grams. Such a concept as a "big Soul" can be taken literally.

Scientists also discovered with the help of special, sensitive equipment that at the moment of death of a person (separation of the Soul from the body) there is a significant jump in energy. Many scientists recognize the fact of the existence of the human Soul.

The soul is created by God (the Higher Mind, the Creator). The human soul can be defined as the highest essence, a given that cannot exist without a temporary physical shelter, and, with the completion of the circle human life, inevitably finds a new incarnation for the further development and transformation of the previous accumulated experience.

By its nature, the Soul:

Light and pure, consists of light divine energies;

on Earth it develops at an accelerated rate, through the physical body, in comparison with the subtle world (much more slowly);

has unlimited potential for development i.e. in the Soul potentially great opportunities are laid and given to it for the realization of its destiny.

It can even be said that the Soul is a cosmic substance that sometimes connects with the physical body, then disconnects again in order to summarize all the variety of thoughts, changes, experience, accumulation of knowledge and reach a new level of energy and self-reproducing life. The purity of the Soul is determined by what experience is more - light or dark.

Here there is an identification of the physical image of a person with the Soul inhabiting him in this life. It has already been mentioned that the Soul is not omnipotent and uses the material shell of the body temporarily, because in our dimension it cannot exist and develop as pure consciousness.

She needs a constant search, movement, development, and therefore is attached to the body that she has chosen for these purposes. But it does not determine the vector of this movement, it can only try to direct it and give a choice. In addition to the Soul, there are thoughts, intentions, the desire for comfort and the occupation of a prosperous status, in accordance with the norms accepted in this society.

And not in every body the Soul can fully live and develop. For a complete spiritual development you need to learn to “hear” your Soul, listen to your inner voice (intuition) - to have a connection with It. Thus, the Spiritual path of development is important for each of us and is not possible without real knowledge of oneself (one’s inner world feelings and thoughts).

What is the Spiritual path of development, read

What is the soul of man in terms of philosophy?

Ancient philosophers at first considered the Human Soul as a physical substance consisting of fiery atoms, which are set in motion by other atoms emanating from external material objects. Further philosophical reflections consolidated the concept of the Soul as something ethereal, independent of physical existence. Meanwhile, the undoubted connection of the corporeal with the spiritual was emphasized.

The soul inhabits the human body to search for new experience and further improvement, but sometimes it gets into physical captivity and lowers its desire for development due to everyday, everyday, vital needs that overwhelm the body. Some of the philosophers gave her three abilities: 1-knowledge, 2-mind, 3-will.

What is the Human Soul made of? For the first time, Janis Kalns spoke about this in great detail in the book “Soul”
Here is what he writes: “Medes is the word that means the Soul at that level of the mental world from which I receive information. Medes is one of the two main components of a Human, an energy-informational manifestation of life. The second main component is the physical body known to all of us. The soul is an intangible part of a Human, as representatives of many religions believe, but to be more precise, it is the result of the synthesis of various units of energy and information.
The image of the Human Soul is shown in Fig.1.

Fig.1. Human Soul Image
If the Soul exists, then, of course, it consists of something. The main component of the physical body is the cell, and the Souls are Megaston. The number of Megastones is the greater, the more developed the Soul. This number is constantly changing. It contains information about events in the past, present and future.
The image of Megaston of the Human Soul is shown in Fig. 2 and on the cover of the book.
MEGASTON level 1 humanoid

Fig.2. Image of Human Soul Megastone
Megaston shell provides the necessary environment for all processes in the megastone. It is also used as a screen on which you can visually show the information available in the megastone about events in the past, present and future, as well as transform information from parallel worlds with its help.
Nevons- a compressed gas that ignites and, exploding, destroys megastones when the nucleolus of the nevon receives the appropriate information from the otanite. It comes into action in situations when very dangerous astronoid information is programmed into the otanite. They can destroy one megastone, but they can also cause a chain reaction in all or part of the megastones.
Microlon- an additional protective screen that protects otane and its particles if, for one reason or another, the megaston shell is damaged. Microlon for each megastone produces a color that is necessary, or which corresponds to internal information. Programs have been introduced into the microlon that themselves change the color of the megastone to black or purple if the megastone begins to receive information from astronoids.
Khustors store the energy produced by the scanners in order to use it for the needs of the soul and body in cases where the energy supply from the total energy field stops. But most often this energy is used when there are attacks in the astral plane, to deliver a counterattack of greater power, because. internal reserves are added to the incoming energy.
Scanners generate energy, the excitation for which is taken from the general energy field of the Universe. The generated energy is on average 1.5 times greater than the received energy, and is sent to the Khustors. At the same time, the scanners produce scanteriosis. The scanners consist of an inner and outer pair of scanners, they rotate in opposite directions and thus provide a balance of megastones and spirals. Scanners also perform the functions of an information flow valve.
Scanterioses- the components of the scanner, isolated individual particles, which, in the event of the death of the scanners (there can be a lot of reasons), combine and form new scanners.
Otan- a protective screen of the informative center, consisting of otanol.Otanols- components of otane. Otanols in a situation where the otanit is filled with information, in addition to the protective function, also performs the functions of a reserve base for the accumulation of information until the moment when a new megastone is formed for the accumulation of information.
Otanite- the base of information accumulation, which consists of 18 thousand informative units, the latter, in turn, are divided into even smaller units and they are called mastils, mitrons, alfers, almenovs, infeses, inekez, fesias, antals, silii, castals, etc.
Mastils are responsible for the correct placement of the spirals in the shower, and also participate in putting the spirals in order if there are deviations from the norm. Mitrons provide communication sessions between representatives of the mental and medes systems, as well as with any other galaxy in the physical plane.Mitrons are located in the megastones of the whole soul and provide a connection with higher worlds to each individual megaston and in those cases where the soul is divided. Mitrons of all megastones can unite in the transmission of one information, thus increasing the transmission power.
Alfera- 600 informative units in otanite. They form the visual system of each megastone. The whole set of soul megastone alfers is called trialba - soul vision. They are painted in the same way as otanit, only in a different shade.

In the language of God, "three" means three, "alba" means eye. This refers to the two eyes of the physical body and the one eye of the soul.
Almenovs— 960 informative units in otanite, forming the auditory system of each megastone. The whole set of megaston almens is called apsiton - hearing of the soul. The color of Almenov is the same as that of Otanite, only of a different shade.

Megastones with great speed, approximately the same as the speed of light, are circling in a spiral in order to move faster and more accurately and instantly deliver information to helium - the "brain" center of the Soul.

Helium- The "brain" system of the soul is the main center of information processing. It consists of a spiral of megastones and a maton.
Megaston helium coil- the most important spiral that performs the protective functions of the maton. In the megastones of this spiral, in a concentrated form, there is the most important information of all the megastones of the soul. Consequently, the helium spiral of megastones is one of several databases of the soul, where the most important information is duplicated in a concentrated form. It is necessary in case any of the informative bases gets corrupted and the information is erased.

The spiraling circling of Megastones for the soul ensures movement in the Universe at great speed and the ability to instantly transmit the necessary information to the physical body even at a distance of millions of light years.

Megastones in the Soul are grouped into spirals. Each pair of Megastones that circles along its own spiral circles along the same path together with many other pairs of Megastones, forming a large spiral with a very large number of Megastones.

These large spirals in turn form the shape of the Soul in accordance with the needs of a particular body. The number of Megastones determines the level of development of the Soul incarnated into a Human.
There can be from 500 to 10,000,000 Megastones in the Human Soul. The number of Megastones determines the level of development of the Soul.

The order of grouping Megastones in spirals organizes helium according to certain criteria:

a) spirals of Megastones responsible for maintaining all vital processes in the physical body;
b) spirals in which high-level information is programmed to perform specific tasks. This information is either already expressed as talents, or for some reason not yet used;
c) spirals responsible for Human emotions;
d) spirals, which contain all the information on how to protect the Soul and the physical body from attacks of a different nature;
e) spirals in which there is and continues to accumulate all the information about the current life, work, spoken words and thoughts. All information without exception: both good and bad deeds, speeches and thoughts;
e) and other information.
In the event of a break in the spirals, a problem arises in the transmission of information. These problems manifest themselves as various kinds of diseases.
The main information processing center is helium, which consists of Megastone and Maton spirals.
maton- the core of the brain system of the Soul. It is made up of oils. There are as many mastils in Maton as there are Megastones in the Soul. Mastils are the representatives of each Megastone in Mathon. They are delegated by an otanit.
Mastils are responsible for transmitting information to Megaston, as well as for receiving information from it. Maton's tasks are as follows:
1. filter all incoming and outgoing information;
2. support all life processes in the Soul;
3. organize all functions;
4. transmit and receive information over an unlimited distance.

Mathon functions accurately only if there is not a single reprogrammed Megastone in the "brain" system of the Soul. Otherwise, we can say that the "brain" system of the Soul is sick.

The differences of people are manifested not only in the division into races, nationalities, classes, men and women, in character and appearance each individual, but also in the state of their Soul. Extreme polarization: humanoids - belonging to the Divine hierarchy and astronoids - belonging to the devilish hierarchy. There are many more intermediate stages that occur when a humanoid becomes mired in diabolical deeds.

Our differences depend not only on belonging to humanoids or astronoids, but also on the level of development of each Soul. If in the human Soul the possible number of Megastones ranges from 500 to 10,000,000, then at the level of the physical body this huge difference manifests itself regardless of the age of the physical body, whether it is five or fifty years old. It is very difficult for a person who has a small number of Megastones in his Soul to master things that seem simple to a Person with a large number of Megastones. This is the answer to the age-old question why in intelligence tests individuals who grew up and studied in the same conditions have such different indicators.
Initially, the devilish hierarchy was formed from fallen Souls - those who did not fulfill divine duties. Later, the devilish forces learned to create 100% devilish Souls, because it was very difficult to lure the Divine Souls to them. I must say that it was difficult until the moment when the mass media began to appear in the world. Divine Souls are called humanoids - beings of the highest level, and devilish - astronoids - beings of the lower level. The essential difference is that humanoids serve others by observing God's laws, and the astronoids, by any means, try to subordinate everything to their interests. Astronoid - the human Soul - a representative of the devilish hierarchy. They live only for themselves. Their goals are related to the struggle for the provision of energy resources and for information on how best to implement this provision. A typical manifestation of selfishness is also one of the main features that characterize astronoids, or to a very large extent a reprogrammed humanoid, guided by diabolical programs.

From the foregoing, we can conclude that the Human Soul is one of the two main components of a Human, an energy-informational manifestation of life.
Megastones of the Soul contain all the information about events in the past, present and future. The Megastones of the Human Soul also contain negative information (information about his negative thoughts, deeds and actions), as well as negative programs introduced by astronoids to a Human in order to subordinate him to their selfish interests. Each Soul, when it enters a Human, has its own personal program, which it must fulfill in this incarnation. This program is written in the personal numerical code of the Soul.
It is possible to help a Human fulfill his personal program of this incarnation by annihilating (eliminating) the negative information in the Megastones of his Soul and reprogramming them to fulfill the tasks of the Divine Hierarchy.
The drawings from the book “Soul” by Janis Kalns depict the parts that make up the Soul of a Humanoid Human. The drawings are published with the personal permission of the author.
Where is the Soul in the human body? Of course, the Soul (the brain center of the Soul - Helium) must be located in the area of the Sacred Space of the Heart. Some of us in Everyday life because of the events that are taking place, it often happens somehow not well in the Soul, uncomfortable. This is due to the fact that the Human Soul is not in sacred space Hearts and can not effectively respond to ongoing events. Some people at the level of intuition feel that their Soul is out of place. And indeed it is. The soul of some people can be located in different parts of the body: the pineal gland, the cerebellum, the medulla oblongata, in the region of the cerebral cortex and other places. His mental and physical health strongly depends on the location of the Soul in the Wave Form of a Human.

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The soul is what hurts a person when the whole body is healthy.
After all, we say (and feel) that it is not the brain that hurts,
not a heart muscle - the soul hurts.
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Soul 1) an integral, substantial part of the human, which has properties that reflect Divine perfections (); 2) different from the human part (); 3) person (); 4) animal (); 5) the life force of the animal ().

The human soul is independent, because, according to St. , it is not a manifestation of another essence, another being, but is itself the source of phenomena emanating from it.

The human soul was created immortal, because it does not die like a body, being in the body, it can be separated from it, although such separation is unnatural for the soul, there is a sad consequence. The human soul is a personality, because it was created as a unique and inimitable personal being. The human soul is reasonable and, because it has a reasonable power and free. The human soul is different from the body, because it does not have the properties of visibility, tangibility, is not perceived and is not known by bodily organs.

Irritable soul power(παρασηλοτικον, irascile) is her emotional strength. St. calls it a spiritual nerve, giving the soul energy for labor in the virtues. This part of the soul of Sts. Fathers ascribes anger and a violent beginning. However, in this case, anger and rage do not mean passions, but jealousy (zeal, energy), which in its original state was a jealousy for good, and after the fall should be used as a courageous rejection. “It is the business of the irritable part of the soul to be angry with the devil,” say Sts. Fathers. The irritable power of the soul is also called.

Lustful part of the soul(επιθυμητικον, concupiscentiale) is also called desirable (desirable) or active. It allows the soul to aspire to something or to turn away from something. It belongs to the lustful part of the soul, which tends to act.

“Curb the irritable part of the soul with love, fade the desirable part with abstinence, inspire reasonable prayer ...” / Kallistos and Ignatius Xanthopoulos /.

All the forces of the soul are aspects of its single life. They are inseparable from each other and constantly interact. They achieve the greatest unity when they obey the spirit, focusing on the contemplation and knowledge of God. In this knowledge, according to St. , there is no trace of their separation, they are in unity like unity.

The human soul is connected to the body. This connection is an unmerged connection. As a result of this union, two natures are present in a person - spiritual and bodily, which, according to the word of St. , are unmixedly dissolved. Of the two natures, God formed one human being, in which "neither the body is changed into the soul, nor the soul is changed into the flesh" (St.). For all that, such a union is not merged, but it is not inseparable and inseparable, since the human body acquired mortality and separation from the soul as a result of sin.

The concept of the soul

The soul is something special power, present in a person, which constitutes its highest part; it revives a person, gives him the ability to think, sympathize, feel. The words "soul" and "breathe" have a common origin. The soul is created by the breath of God, and it has indestructibility. It cannot be said that it is immortal, because only God is immortal by nature, while our soul is indestructible - in the sense that it does not lose its consciousness, does not disappear after death. However, it has its own "death" - it is ignorance of God. And in this regard, she can die. That is why it is said in Scripture: “The soul that sins, it will die” ().

The soul is a living, simple and incorporeal essence, by its nature invisible to bodily eyes, rational and thinking. Having no form, using an equipped organ - the body, giving it life and growth, feeling and generating power. Having a mind, but not different, in comparison with itself, but as the purest part of it - for as the eye is in the body, so is the mind in the soul. It is autocratic and capable of wishing and acting, changeable, i.e. voluntarily changing because it was created. Having received all this by nature from the grace of the One who created her, from whom she received her being.

Some sectarians, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists, reject the immortality of the soul, considering it to be merely a part of the body. And at the same time they falsely refer to the Bible, to the text of Ecclesiastes, which raises the question of whether the human soul is similar to the soul of animals: everyone has breath, and man has no advantage over cattle, because everything is vanity!” (). Then the Ecclesiastes himself answers this question, which the sectarians neglect, he says: “And the dust will return to the earth, as it was; and the spirit returned to God who gave it. And here we understand that the soul is indestructible, but it can die.

Soul powers

If we turn to the patristic heritage, we will see that usually three main forces are distinguished in the soul: mind, will and feelings, which manifest themselves in different abilities - thinking, desire and desire. But at the same time, one must understand that the soul has other powers as well. All of them are divided into reasonable and unreasonable. The unreasonable beginning of the soul consists of two parts: one is disobediently reasonable (does not obey reason), the other is obediently reasonable (obeys reason). TO higher powers souls include the mind, will and feelings, and the unreasonable include the vital forces: the power of the heartbeat, seed, growth (which forms the body), etc. The action of the power of the soul animates the body. God deliberately made it so that the vital forces were not subject to the mind, so that the human mind would not be distracted by controlling the heartbeat, breathing, etc. There are various technologies related to the control of the human body that are trying to influence this life force. What do yogis do intensely: they try to control the heartbeat, change breathing, control the internal processes of digestion? and are terribly proud of it. In fact, there is absolutely nothing to be proud of here: God deliberately freed us from this task, and it is stupid to do this.

Imagine that, in addition to your usual work, you will be forced to do the work of the housing office: organize garbage collection, cover the roof, control the supply of gas, electricity, etc. Now many people are delighted with all sorts of occult, esoteric arts, they are proud of the fact that to some extent they have mastered the regulation of this life force of the soul, which is beyond the control of the mind. In fact, they are proud of the fact that they changed the job of a university teacher for a job as a sewer. This is due to the foolish idea that the mind is better able to handle the body than the unreasonable part of the soul. I will answer that in fact it will do worse. It has long been known that any attempts to rationally build life lead to very irrational consequences. If we try to use the power of our mind to manage our body correctly, it will be complete nonsense.

By modern ideas the concept of the soul goes back to animistic concepts of a special force that exists in the body of a person and an animal, and sometimes even a plant. Since ancient times, man has wondered about the difference between living and non-living things. In the course of the development of mythological thinking, the concept of the soul as some attribute of a living being was formed. Observation of the breath of the living, which disappeared after his death, contributed to the emergence of ancient ideas about the soul as a breath that occurs from the outside. Corresponding observations on blood and the termination of life with its great loss led to the fact that the bearer of the soul was seen in the blood. Dreams led to the idea of the soul as a substance that exists independently of the body.

Due to the fact that the soul is understood as a substance, the properties of the finest substance in the blood are first attributed to it, as was the case with most of the pre-Socratics in Greek philosophy (Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus). According to Plato, the soul is immortal and immaterial and precedes existence in the physical body. Before the birth of man, the soul contemplates ideas in material world, and after it inhabits the body, it “forgets” them. Hence Plato's judgment that all knowledge is only a recollection of forgotten ideas, known by the soul before birth. Aristotle calls it the first entelechy of a viable body; only the rational human soul (spirit) can be separated from the body and is immortal.

The concept of the soul in philosophy

The focus of a person's spiritual life is self-consciousness, consciousness of oneself as a unique human being, individuality.

The soul began to be considered as a philosophical concept accessible to rational analysis among the ancient Greeks. All the pre-Socratics wondered about the soul and especially about the connection between it and the body - two fundamental dimensions of human existence. From Plato's point of view, the soul and body exist separately from each other, while for Aristotle they are inextricably linked. “The soul is the first entelechy of the natural body, which has life as a possibility. (…) So, the soul is inseparable from the body; it is also clear that any part of it is inseparable if the soul by nature has parts, for some parts of the soul are the entelechy of bodily parts," writes Aristotle, for whom "all natural bodies are the instruments of the soul."

Soul in Abrahamic religions

Judaism

According to the understanding of some Christian writers (for example, Tertullian), the soul is material (treatise De anima), while others - the Church Fathers (for example, Augustine) consider it spiritual, just as in classical patristics, the understanding of the soul as a non-spatial, non-material substance prevails.

Immanuel Kant spoke out against such an understanding, which is dominant in Christianity. An appeal to an immaterial principle in the name of resolving the question of the soul is, according to Kant, "the refuge of a lazy mind." For him, however, the soul is an object of inner feeling in its connection with the body, and not a substance; the theory of the substantiality of the soul must give way to the theory of its actuality.

Soul Immortality

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul is an integral part of the doctrine of all Christian denominations, with the exception of the Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and some few denominations.

The basic idea of this creed is that the soul continues its conscious existence during the period of time between death and the general resurrection. She either immediately goes to heaven or hell, or else stays for some time in some intermediate place. This can be either the so-called bosom of Abraham, or purgatory (for some souls, the teaching catholic church). According to these views, the fate of the soul is decided at the so-called private court, immediately after the death of a person. And after the universal judgment, the soul unites with the resurrected body and either eternal life or eternal torment in hell (fire hell) awaits it.

Denying the immortality of the soul

The denial of the unconditional immortality of the soul (as inherent in the very nature of man) is sometimes found in early patristics. In particular, Tatian wrote in his "Speech against the Hellenes":

The soul itself is not immortal, Hellenes, but mortal. However, she may not die. The soul that does not know the truth dies and is destroyed along with the body, and receives death through endless punishments. But if it is enlightened by the knowledge of God, then it does not die, although it is destroyed for a while. In itself, it is nothing but darkness, and there is nothing light in it. This includes the words: "the darkness did not embrace the light." For it was not the soul that preserved the spirit, but it was itself preserved by it, and the light embraced the darkness. The Word is the Divine light, and the darkness is a soul alien to knowledge. Therefore, if she lives alone, then she turns away to matter and dies with the flesh; and when she is united with the divine spirit, she is not without help, but ascends where her spirit leads her. For the dwelling place of the spirit is in heaven, but the soul has an earthly origin. (Tatian. Speech against the Hellenes 1:17)

Ideas about the conditional immortality of the soul are contained in the work of Theophilus of Antioch "Epistle to Autolycus":

But someone asked us: was man created by nature mortal? No. So, immortal? We won't say that either. But someone will say: so, he was created by neither one nor the other? and we won't say it. He was created by nature neither mortal nor immortal. For if God had made him immortal at the beginning, he would have made him God; if, on the contrary, he created him mortal, then he himself would be the cause of his death. So, He created him neither mortal nor immortal, but, as was said above, capable of both, so that if he aspires to that which leads to immortality, fulfilling the commandment of God, he would receive immortality from Him as a reward for this, and would become God; but if he strays to the works of death, disobeying God, he himself would be the cause of his own death. For God created man free and sovereign. So, what a person has brought upon himself by his negligence and disobedience, God now forgives him according to His philanthropy and mercy, if a person obeys Him. Just as by disobedience a person brought death on himself, so by obedience to the will of God, the one who wishes can secure eternal life for himself. For God has given us the law and the holy commandments, by fulfilling which everyone can be saved and, having reached the resurrection, inherit incorruption. (Theophilus 2:27)

During the Reformation, the denial of the immortality of the soul was found among some Anabaptists. A well-known proponent of beliefs about the conditional immortality of the soul (the "sleeping soul" notion) was Martin Luther, for which he was criticized by John Calvin.

Currently, some religious denominations, including Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, have different ideas about the nature of the soul from other Christian denominations. The main feature of these ideas is that the soul itself does not have an immortal nature, the soul is mortal.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the soul ceases to exist when a person dies. These views are supported by the following Bible verses: "The living know they're going to die, but the dead don't know anything"(Eccl.); “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it according to your ability; for in the underworld where you are going there is no work, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom.”(Eccl.), "The soul that sins, it will die"(Ezek.),

soul salvation

In Christianity, the concept of "soul" is inextricably linked with the concept of salvation. The salvation of a person's soul is understood as the salvation of the person himself from death, which is also considered a consequence of sin, and from eternal punishment for sin (in hell or fiery hell). Most Christians believe that after the resurrection of the dead, the souls of the saved will be reunited with the bodies and in these bodies the saved will be guaranteed eternal life.

About the soul in the Bible

In theology, the following meanings of the word "soul" in the Bible are distinguished:

Human.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Gen.2:7 (akin to Pet.3:20; Rom.13:1; Acts.2:41)
Creature.

And God said, Let the water bring forth reptiles, living creatures; and let the birds fly over the earth, in the firmament of heaven

Gen. 1:20 (akin to Gen. 1:24)
Life.

He who saves his soul (life) will lose it; and he who loses his soul (life) for my sake will save it

Mt.10:39 (akin to Lev.17:11; Mt.2:20; 16:25; Jn.13:37; 15:13)
Human inner world.

The multitude of those who believed had one heart and one soul; and none of his possessions called his own, but they had everything in common

Acts 4:32 (akin to Ps. 102:1)
One of the three essences of man.

May the God of peace Himself sanctify you in all its fullness, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved without blemish in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The spirit (life force) gravitates towards God, and the soul (man) towards material principles:

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword: it penetrates to the division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Immortal human spirit. The soul, as a spirit, is conceived even without a body:

I know a man in Christ who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know; out of the body, I don't know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

2 Corinthians 12:2 (similar to: 2 Pet. 1:14)

The soul, as spirit, is eternal and immortal:

Therefore we do not lose heart; but if our outer man smolders, then the inner one is renewed from day to day ... the visible is temporary, and the invisible is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16,18 (similar to Matt. 22:32)

And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.

Attitude towards the death of the Apostles:

For to me life is Christ, and death is gain. But if life in the flesh bears fruit for my cause, I do not know what to choose. Both attract me: I have a desire to resolve myself and be with Christ, because this is incomparably better; but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you.

Philp. 1:21-23 (similar to 2 Cor. 5:8)

Soul and King Solomon

The book of Ecclesiastes (Solomon) in the Bible is unique in its kind, since it gives a lot of intermediate and limited reasoning, views on the life of a carnal skeptic who accepts only what is “done under the sun”, experiences everything, relying solely on his own mind . The original premise of Ecclesiastes about the soul is pessimistic and mundane: And I praised the fun; because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry (Eccl. 8:15). Everything and everyone is one: one fate for the righteous and the wicked, the good and the [evil], the pure and the unclean (Eccl. 9:2). The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward for them, because the memory of them is also forgotten (Eccl. 9:5).

And yet, after philosophical reflection, the final conclusions that Ecclesiastes comes to are as follows: Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let him eat your heart joy in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; just know that for all this God will bring you to judgment (Eccl. 11:9). Let us listen to the essence of everything: fear God and keep His commandments, because in this is everything for man (Eccl. 12:13). And the dust will return to the earth as it was; and the spirit returned to God who gave it (Eccl. 12:7).

Soul in other religions and teachings

Buddhism

Theosophy

Attempts to discover the material manifestation of the soul

In 1854, the German anatomist and physiologist Rudolf Wagner came up with the hypothesis of the existence of a special “substance of the soul” at the physiological congress in Göttingen. (English) Russian , which, however, had no consequences in the scientific world.

In 1901, the American physician Duncan McDougall set up a series of experiments on the direct weighing of the soul, in full accordance with the scientific methodology of his time. McDougall used a floor scale that allowed weights from one ounce (28.35 g) to 250 pounds (113.4 kg) to be weighed. The doctor performed 6 measurements of the soul of dying people with their consent. In five dimensions, he found a post-mortem weight loss ranging from 15 to 35 g. Once he failed to accurately record the moment of death and the experiment was rejected. McDougall later repeated his experiment 15 times on dogs - this time with zero results. McDougall concluded that during life a person has a material soul, while animals do not have a soul. McDougall published the results of his experiments only 6 years later. They were published in well-known journals such as American Medicine and the American Journal of the American Society for Psychical, and were later retold by the Washington Post and the New York Times. At the same time, McDougall emphasized that for the scientific evaluation of his findings, new accurate experiments in large numbers are needed. However, no new scientific experiments in this area have been published.

About the soul in works of art

Victor Hugo in The Man Who Laughs wrote:

The approach of a storm was felt in the air... The moment of that disturbing premonition has come when it seems as if the elements are about to become living beings and before our eyes there will be a mysterious transformation of the wind into a hurricane... The blind forces of nature will gain their will, and what we take for a thing will turn out to be endowed with soul. It seems that all this is to be seen firsthand. This is what explains our horror. The human soul is afraid of meeting with the soul of the universe

Victor Hugo, collected works in 10 volumes, M.1972, v.9, pp. 55-56

People are biologically arranged in such a way that their brain perceives the surrounding reality with the help of their senses, does not question and consider as real only the part that is visible, tangible and perceived by other senses. But can there be another, non-material part of the Universe, other dimensions, where there is intelligent life and the physical laws familiar to us do not apply? And is there in the physical world around us some substance that binds both worlds and is capable of existing on both sides of being?

The values of believers in God are not in this life, but in. For the sake of fairness, we note that most of them are far from angels, inflamed with pure, disinterested love for God and not expecting to receive anything in return for their love. They are simple people who strive to receive their main good, but only at the end of earthly life and in an infinite equivalent. The logic of their actions is dictated by the choice in favor of the eternal bliss promised by the Lord and the normal fear of losing this “paradise bonus”.

As we can see, each person has his own life strategy, but what “place” does he choose it first of all? The answer is obvious - mind. And that's okay. Reason in a dangerous material world must play a decisive role, otherwise a person simply may not survive. And any rational being strives for the good and wants to secure its existence. It all comes down to the fact that some choose a short-term life with an obvious outcome, while others have relied on the Absolute - the immortality of the soul.

Although by and large, if people believe in God and do not commit evil, only because of the fear of punishment in another world, then this is essentially self-interest, and a choice based on fear is far from a choice that is made with the soul. At first glance, the choice seems to be the same, but the reasons that prompted such a choice are radically different.

Summing up the introductory part, we can say that it makes no sense to convince someone in matters of faith. But, to speculate eternal themes, operating not only with conjectures emanating from religious beliefs, but also with assumptions that are based on real technologies, it is possible and necessary.

The essence of the human soul is information

So, most likely no one will deny the obvious fact that a person is a biological carrier of an indefinite amount of information, an unknown percentage of which falls on his consciousness and personality. In other words, the personal "I" can be expressed as information that is the core of our essence. The origin, formation and evolution of this "I" occurs in synthesis with some other substance that does not originate from our being, which is supposedly of an energy-informational nature.

“Everything replaces the brain,” you might say. No, not all! The human brain is only a biocomputer located in the cranium, a "logical machine" that excludes everything that cannot be sensory fixed or is of an irrational nature. The human brain is undoubtedly a powerful tool, but we should not forget that it gives us only reason, makes it possible to think rationally and logically, but here are some feelings ... it is doubtful that the brain is capable of autonomously producing a reckless state of love, hatred or the desire to save someone else's life , at his own cost, etc.

What makes a person human is not his physical body, but something else. Perhaps this is something like a program code that introduces some kind of subconscious correction, and as a result, we become aware of ourselves and become intelligent, in the full sense of the word, living beings who are endowed with emotions, freedom, the desire to create? It is possible to call this code in different ways, in religion this mysterious substance is simply called the soul.

So what is the human soul? What is its essence? From various sources, including the Bible, it follows that the soul is the essence of man. The definition of a person is understood not as a biological, but as his moral, informational (spiritual) essence. The body is the mortal shell, the receptacle of the soul. The soul, in turn, is an information channel that connects this world and the higher one, the one from where we draw love, creative energy and where our consciousness goes.

Or, the soul is an installed "package" of higher feelings and laws that make us people, not biorobots with a cold mind, a kind of repository of vital energy, the Word and Light of God, everything that can be attributed to the concepts of the divine category. The soul is a navigator that indicates the highest path of development. Maybe the soul is both a navigator and a repository and a bridge between realities.

This suggests a rough analogy with a computer operating system and a set of other system subroutines, as well as the electricity required to run a computer. Without a soul and a divine spirit, a person is like a “dead” computer without any digital data and power supply.

Science cannot yet understand the structure of the soul and isolate it into a matrix separate from the body. It is not even clear where the soul is in us. But despite the absence scientific knowledge, it is stupid in theory to deny its existence, as well as the potential opportunity in the future to learn how to "pack" the human "I" into a certain "file".

Of course, there may be many skeptics who consider the analogy of a person and a computer to be incorrect or categorically define all of the above as nonsense. Just in case, "militant atheists" want to say that everything stated can be taken as a fantasy that has the right to exist. It is no more delusional than any scientific hypothesis about the random origin of the Universe, which does not bring closer to understanding the truth. In science in general, versions on this issue often change.

Taking for truth the idea that the soul is the essence of information, and the human body is its carrier, we ask ourselves the question: “Is it possible for the soul to move outside the body and the existence of a mechanism hidden in us that provides this transaction, the activation of which is programmed and occurs, for example, with a complete shutdown or destruction of the brain? The question is essentially rhetorical. The answer is obvious - of course yes! The presence of such biotechnology is quite likely.

There are many confirmations of a conscious "" in the Astral, people who have been in critical condition. People about preserving their consciousness and traveling through a dark tunnel, at the end of which there was light. The explanation of this phenomenon by hallucinations, which allegedly arise due to intoxication of the body with medicines and the so-called tubular vision, does not stand up to criticism.

It is doubtful that as a result of intoxication, the “dead” will experience the same “visual effect” (see themselves from the outside), tell how the operation went or what other people did at a considerable distance, for example, from the operating room where the operation took place, view your life as a kind of film, meet with dead relatives, and cases when blind people from birth described what they are essentially unable to describe (for example, try to explain to a blind person what red is!) ...

So why then are atheists so categorical in denying the soul and its movement after death to another world or dimension? Is intelligent life possible in only one form familiar to us? Or maybe we are the creations of the highest immortal race that exists outside of time and matter, and we are sent to Earth to undergo training, maturation of souls in the school of life, and those who worthily passed the “training” will get a chance for eternal life? You can only answer these questions for yourself...

The path of the soul after death

Let's try to imagine, because we have an imagination, that posthumous world, where, according to believers, the soul ends up after earthly life. It is not about searching for evidence of the reality of the afterlife - during life this cannot be done in principle, as they say: “Until you die, you won’t check if there is one.” All considerations regarding the “afterlife theme” are perceived by non-religious people as a pure abstraction. But, any thought, no matter how fantastic it may seem, can turn out to be objective reality. Moreover, it is possible that our reality is really only a miserable, distorted copy of the real Ideal Being. How can it be, which after physical death becomes the eternal refuge of the soul?

Let's start with the main one. Everything has a root cause. Without it, nothing can arise by itself. Whatever operations are performed with zeros, without a unit the result will always be zero. That is, in the absolute primordial Non-Being, a “number” could not appear by itself out of nowhere, there had to be a root cause acting as a unit, some kind of force that made the particles move. Proceeding from this, let's assume the existence of the Author, the Supermind or the Creator of all things, He has many names, but there is one generalizing capacious concept - God. Let's take it for granted. For what purpose was the world created by Him?

Probably the same with which a creative person creates his creation, through which he expresses the inner creative energy, love or some other experiences arising from the soul. Maybe the Creator wanted to create a semblance of that ideal, infinite happiness, which He Himself is, and a small copy of this Original is not a material body at all, but some other substances that are inside us and make up our essence - spirit, soul, mind. After all, if a person-creator wants to create his own likeness, it will mean, first of all, a rational basis that is closest to the original ( artificial intelligence) and enclosed in the framework of human logic. The wrapper in which the created entity will be placed is secondary.

Let's not delve into the understanding of God's Intention, which is probably not given to a person to understand. This theme is an attempt to present the Path and essence of the soul.

Almost all religious sources say that in the Other World life is eternal. Why not. A person in earthly life also strives for immortality, and one of the hypothetical concepts in this direction lies in the transfer of consciousness from a dying body into something new, ideally into the eternal. What can't destroy time? Only the immaterial is not afraid of time.

If afterworld non-material, then another logic reigns there, which does not obey the physical laws of our being. Perhaps there is no flow of time familiar to us, everything eternal eliminates the need for this category.

Earthly life should be perceived as a kind of school where a person is tested. And only a person who has passed this path worthily enters the kingdom of God called paradise. The more the soul at the “exit-entrance” retains in itself from God, the higher and closer to the Lord it will ascend. And vice versa - an individual who has accumulated a critical mass of sins (evil) throughout his life, one in whom the distortion of the absolute standard (God) will be very large, will go to hell. In other words, we all go through a filter, the purpose of which is to prevent evil from entering paradise. The structure of this model of being from a rational standpoint is quite understandable and understandable.

Drawing a line under the above, one can simply say that a person is endowed with freedom of choice and everyone is free to decide what a soul is, and whether he has one or not. So the choice is yours...