The title of this series supports my belief in, or perhaps more accurately, my "knowing" of the existence of the soul, but with no real knowledge of its nature. Does it come into being fully-fledged, as some believe? Is it immortal? What is its relationship, if any, to the ego? I should point out at this juncture that I believe the ego to be a function of the physical senses, the intellect or 'Thinking Function' and the emotions or 'Feeling Function'. This is important here.
When the material body dies so does the physical brain, along with the senses, the emotions and the intellect. The ego is necessary to allow the material body to survive the tribulations of material existence, up to a certain point. Beyond that point the body is no longer able to satisfy the internal conditions for its continued existence. The soul on the other hand has no such apparent survival value. What then can be its function and purpose? It would appear to have none, and that runs counter to one's experience of nature.
But what does the soul say of itself, as to its finite or eternal existence, for example? I discovered long ago that when dealing with the question of morality, for example, the soul is completely nonplussed. Morality, as stated, is a series of dualities dealing with how we live in the world. For the soul, dualities do not exist. Neither, therefore, does the issue of finite life or eternal life. That is an issue which attracts the attention only of the ego, which lives in space and time. And what is spacetime? Perhaps only a great bubble being carried in a great river of eternity. It is that river which is the natural habitat of the soul. Spacetime is a passing phenomenon with nothing in common with the soul, except that the soul seems to require a medium in which to be conceived. Spacetime, the material temple of the soul, contains the soul's psycho-spiritual womb.
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