Afterlife (Endings)

by BBella , Sunday, February 03, 2013, 20:46 (4309 days ago) @ David Turell

b bella: In the paragraph above I see no difference in what we are both saying that a soul is, other than this maybe: My version of the soul already had existence before it entered the body and yours began when it entered the body. I, as you, think of the soul as ever learning by memories gained thru experience. I do see the soul changing and evolving, not like a body changes, but I do see it evolving in the sense of gaining memories thru experience.
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> Aren't both of you saying consciousness is the soul?-David, -Yes (IMO "evolving" imaginings), in the sense that without consciousness there is no soul. But the "soul" (for lack of a better term at this point), in my thinking, is a more evolved form of consciousness in that it retains it's memories/experiences within "one" conscious entity (identity) and can choose experiences (one experience is to become an entity/identity within matter) and a soul entity doesn't have to end unless it chooses to end (unlike animals), and at that point, can dissolve it's soul entity status, releasing it's memories into the All That Is (where those memories can then be accessed by other evolved "entities" for whatever purpose. I've experienced being in the "hall of records" where memories are kept in my dreams (and wrote a poem about it), and found out later that term has been used in philosophy and spiritual realms for thousands of years as the place where memories are kept in the afterlife.