The Human Soul

Every personality is unique, and identified by a collection of experiences or memories. Our patterns of thought are one kind of experience and our feelings or emotions are another kind of experience.

It is possible for the mind of one person to contain inconsistencies of rationality, we may have two different kinds of beliefs which should be mutually exclusive. We may be only half commited to a certain belief, it influences some of our decision making but not all of it. If a person is diligent for the sake of wisdom then they will make an effort to find these inconsistencies in themselves. And beyond that we should notice that our thoughts follow how we are feeling at any given moment. And feelings are largely chemical in nature, and it is not just the brain's chemistry but that of the whole body. For to think that the brain is something entirely seperate from the rest of the body would be an error of judgement. But it would also seem that our thoughts have some influence over our feelings, some thoughts or memories may trigger certain feelings. But feelings are largely subject to conditioning and there is much in our societies that teaches us how we should feel about certain things. And some of our emotional response is just in the nature of being a certain kind of animal, a biological entity, it seems to be programmed into our genes.

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Now I am certain that our world is facing numerous kinds of crisis in the near future, and I fear that our amazing intelligence alone will not be enough to ensure the survival of the human species. The survival of the species requires our emotional maturity as well as intelligence. And I believe that the world does harm many good people in terms of developing that maturity. The general populations of the world are suffering from certain kinds of insanity, and to a large degree the people have been taught insanity.

For example its a commonly held belief that to take a human life may be justifiable and in the common interest of the community. And if this were true then I suppose its perfectly rational to assume that any kind of murder might be justifiable. Capital punishment and incarceration are meant to deter criminal behaviour, but obviously it will never be a cure for the causes of that behaviour. And the courts in the United States want to put sanity to the test according to a legal definition, but it seems clear to me that all cases of murder are also cases of insanity.
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Now medical science has been trying to answer the question, "where are the memories stored?" for a long time. We are pretty sure it has something to do with the brain. If a single neuron cell of the human brain were stimulated, then many other neurons may subsequently be stimulated as well. And this electro-chemical process of neron cells firing developes into a pattern. One particular pattern may produce a memory, but is the information stored in this pattern or somehow in the cells themselves? Clearly it is in the agency of the human brain to create memories and to retrieve them. But the memories themselves are stored within the fabric of the vacume itself, so called empty space. The vacume extends everywhere, it is inside of your body and it extends to the Earth's core. The part of your physical volume in space which is substance is small compared to the amount of emptyness. And that vacume is expanding here around us as much as it has been observed that the Universe itself is expanding, it is expanding everywhere. That part of the Universe that we observe as empty space is not entirely empty and it is not entirely nothing at all.

In fact the Universe contains a complete memory of itself, which includes your own personal memories. Even though your body may eventually dissolve into so much dust and gas, your personal memories have been indelably inscribed upon the fabric of this Universe. And the content of this memory is NOT just what you had yesterday morning for breakfast, or what you were thinking about last Tuesday. It is complete in every last detail, things that you could never have been aware of, like the disposition of every molecule of substance in your body. And these memories are the whole content of the everlasting human soul, the soul and the animating spirit are not the same thing.

And now i have offered my view on what is the nature of the human soul. And I would like to add that this soul (or your personal memories) is not the same thing as personal property. The human soul is not an intellectual property that you may exercise rights to. You may not exclude one person or another from viewing the contents of that soul, but to whomever Heaven so chooses it may be revealed, for those memories are the property of this Heaven. And as I have already stated, Heaven itself is a certain kind of person, complete with memories.

Therefore I tell you that you have no secrets that will stand the test of time; and if you have ventured in this life to get personal gain from keeping secrets, the tale will eventually be told.