Do You Have a Soul, or Are You a Soul?

© Rhoberta Shaler, PhD
Founder, Spiritual Living Network


There is no end of inquiry on the spiritual path. I'm sure you've noticed that.

As I am working on my book, Soul-Driven Living, I am having to pay great attention to the clarity I can bring to my thinking before I can actually write the book. That seems imperative. So, the questions:

Do you have a soul?
Are you a soul?
Are you part of a Soul?

I'd love to hear your comments and thinking on the subject.

When we wrote SOUL SOLITUDE: Taking Time for Our Souls to Catch Up, we wrote it for a
general audience and very consciously chose to say 'our souls". In that book, we
discussed the soul as the Authentic Self. We offer the Webster's dictionary
definition of soul:

"the immaterial essence, animating principle or actuating
cause of an individual life; the spiritual principle embodied in human beings;
all rational and spiritual beings of the universe; an actual or essential part;
a moving spirit; man's moral or ethicalnature; that quality that arouses
emotion and sentiment."

And, we offer a definition from Dr. Dennis Merritt-Jones:

"The truth is there is only one Soul and it is the Soul of the
Universe. Individual man's soul is simply that point within him where the
Universe (or God) personalizes Itself. We believe that the soul is man's
creative medium and is therefore subjective (or subject) to his conscious
thought. The soul is that perfect part of our being which accepts us and our
actions, never judging us as right or wrong, always ready to "assist" us in
achieving whatever we choose to do when we believe we can do it.The soul has
been referred to as the "mirror of mind" because it reflects the forms of
thought which are given it. WE choose the thoughts it reflects or, in other
words, brings into experience."

These two definitions offer our readers a point of departure for understanding the concept of soul.What are your thoughts?

Many blessings,
Rhoberta

Rhoberta Shaler, PhD
Psychologist. Coach. Catalyst.
Helping Businesses Prosper & People Flourish
Founder, Spiritual Living Network

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