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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5471832" data-attributes="member: 177">My off-the-cuff response is that there is no singular &quot;soul&quot;.&nbsp; The problems tend to arise when we assume there is one, and we attempt to figure out how to achieve an experience of it.&nbsp; Everyone wants their own way to be right &quot;right way&quot; to reach perfection.&nbsp; I was re-watching some Babylon 5 last night, the episode was, &quot;Walkabout&quot;, in which Dr. Franklin is wandering the station, trying to find himself after realizing he had a drug problem.During his wanderings, he meets a woman, who repeatedly looks at him through a faceted tumbler.&nbsp; He asks what she's doing, and she says that she has a belief that light passes through the body, and brings with it an image of the soul.&nbsp; And if she holds the glass just right, all the scattered images would align, and she'd see the person's soul, what they really were.He asks her if she'd ever managed the trick.&nbsp; She admits she had not. All she sees are the various scattered images of the same person, through the facets of the glass.If we stop assuming that there is one really central experience or soul, then we would stop arguing about which is the right way to reach it, and maybe we could accept that we are all looking for our own thing, and that's okay.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5471832, member: 177"] My off-the-cuff response is that there is no singular "soul". The problems tend to arise when we assume there is one, and we attempt to figure out how to achieve an experience of it. Everyone wants their own way to be right "right way" to reach perfection. I was re-watching some [I]Babylon 5[/I] last night, the episode was, "Walkabout", in which Dr. Franklin is wandering the station, trying to find himself after realizing he had a drug problem. During his wanderings, he meets a woman, who repeatedly looks at him through a faceted tumbler. He asks what she's doing, and she says that she has a belief that light passes through the body, and brings with it an image of the soul. And if she holds the glass just right, all the scattered images would align, and she'd see the person's soul, what they really were. He asks her if she'd ever managed the trick. She admits she had not. All she sees are the various scattered images of the same person, through the facets of the glass. If we stop assuming that there is one really central experience or soul, then we would stop arguing about which is the right way to reach it, and maybe we could accept that we are all looking for our own thing, and that's okay. [/QUOTE]

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