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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5471950" data-attributes="member: 59082">Excellent stuff - I tried to XP you but I have done so too recently.This is very much in line with my view - &quot;soul&quot; is a deeply personal experience, in fact it may be the most personal experience that one can have, of one's own &quot;beingness&quot; and of the &quot;beingness&quot; of something in relation to oneself, experiencing the beingness of the Other or a Something. Now where my view may differ, or where it is perceived to differ, is that I feel that this itself has a universal quality. Individuality is a universal quality of being a human - we are all individuals, we are all an &quot;I&quot; - different but united through our uniqueness.So yeah, I agree that &quot;we are all looking for our own thing, and that's okay&quot; - but we are all united in this, that we are all looking for our own thing. And we can hope that &quot;our own thing&quot; is aligned with the thing of others so that we can enjoy it, together.Thus another way to put my Rome analogy is that we're all trying to get to Rome, but &quot;Rome&quot; means something different to each and every one of us. However, the experience of traveling and getting to Rome has a universal quality, just as the Hero's Journey for each and everyone of us is different, yet with universal archetypal experiences.For whatever reason, some people seem threatened by the idea of universality, perhaps because of fears that it inherently equates with Borg-like loss of individuality and conformity. That need not be the case - we can be united through and in our individualism and when we do so, we become more than the sum of our parts. But maybe it is my wretched Idealist-Romantic streak talking!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5471950, member: 59082"] Excellent stuff - I tried to XP you but I have done so too recently. This is very much in line with my view - "soul" is a deeply personal experience, in fact it may be the [I]most [/I]personal experience that one can have, of one's own "beingness" and of the "beingness" of something in relation to oneself, experiencing the beingness of the Other or a Something. Now where my view may differ, or where it is [I]perceived [/I]to differ, is that I feel that this itself has a universal quality. Individuality is a universal quality of being a human - we are all individuals, we are all an "I" - different but united through our uniqueness. So yeah, I agree that "we are all looking for our own thing, and that's okay" - but we are all united in this, that we are all looking for our own thing. And we can hope that "our own thing" is aligned with the thing of others so that we can enjoy it, together. Thus another way to put my Rome analogy is that we're all trying to get to Rome, but "Rome" means something different to each and every one of us. However, the experience of traveling and getting to Rome has a universal quality, just as the Hero's Journey for each and everyone of us is different, yet with universal archetypal experiences. For whatever reason, some people seem threatened by the idea of universality, perhaps because of fears that it inherently equates with Borg-like loss of individuality and conformity. That need not be the case - we can be united through and in our individualism and when we do so, we become more than the sum of our parts. But maybe it is my wretched Idealist-Romantic streak talking! [/QUOTE]

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