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The Soul, or Spirit — all of us wonder, "What is the soul?" and long to believe in its reality. No one appreciates the idea that we vanish — irrevocably — from the face of the earth, once we have passed away. Yet we can find nothing to assuage our hunger for knowledge of such things — not in the anecdotes of those who have returned from clinical death; not in the ruminations of priests or theologians.
So what can we expect in the hereafter — eternal darkness, purgatory, hell or "Logos”?
And, what exactly is — the SOUL?
Many people who have experienced head injuries or clinical death report seeing and hearing souls of the deceased and viewing the channels through which they depart. But -where do they go, where are "heaven" or "hell" if they exist and why can't the rest of us see, hear or sense any of this?
Current medical wisdom tries to explain away real, objective phenomena as merely the effect of oxygen deficit in the brain.
Do past lives really exist — and if so, why do most of us have no knowledge or recollection of them? What, actually, is memory? How do we record, store , and access from memory something meaningful to us but long forgotten?
And what is the brain, per se, and how does it work? How do our brain cells receive and store information from the outside world?
How do we perceive and sense the surrounding world? What, in essence, are our feelings and emotions? Are we able to understand the phenomenon of love feelings and how they arise in the depths of our soul?
Can we attribute them merely to sexual attraction with which Mother Nature has seen fit to endow us? If it is merely that, how can we explain why a man may feel the stirrings of love only for a specific woman — and not just for anybody he may chance to meet on the street, in the work place, while traveling or theater-going?
If it is something other than just physical attraction, what is it — and why can love disappear or turn to complete indifference — or even mutual hatred at times?
As for human personality — how does one develop a particular psychic organization and character? Why does one person have great will power while another, weak individual, is totally devoid of it? How do the different types of psychic organization evolve and why, in a given individual, may the psychic type change in the course of one's lifetime?
How does homosexuality originate?
And intuition — what is it? Where does the "spontaneous knowing" that we experience come from and why do we receive it?
So many questions arise in our conscious mind, but how can we construe the conscious and subconscious per se?
How do we acquire the ability to think and what is the process of thinking?
All these questions arise in our brain and require answers if we wish to regard ourselves as truly intelligent beings.
Yet one question looms largely and eclipses all the others — the matter of our Soul, our Spirit.
Where do our souls come from; why do we possess them and where do they go when we die?
What befalls them in heaven or hell, and for what sins are they returned back to Earth?!
Does our life have a purpose — or is it merely a brief and evanescent moment between past and future...?
© Nicolai Levashov 1999, San Francisco
