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I have recently been reading some interesting spiritual books and have come across some views i'm sure where i stand on but thouht would do better with some discussion. one theory was that the personality is the fractured part of one's soul (the part the soul has to fix in this lifetime) so then killing off parts of the personality were not neccesarily killing off parts of the soul but in actually healing or ignoring that part for this lifetime. I don't personally agree all the way with this but here are a few questions: is your personality different than your soul? if so how would you define both of these things(for lack of a better word)? and finally does the soul live one incarnation or many??

I always contend that animals have no soul unless a human shares their own with one. People who find this idea abhorrent try to prove me wrong by saying that animals have emotions. I shut them up by saying emotion has nothing to do with a soul. Contrary to popular belief, you soul has nothing to do with emotion, personality, or morality. It's just the peice of you that exists after death. It's the true you, and doubtlessly has emotion, morality, and personality, but that's not what it is.

I believe in what the Bible teaches me about our souls and I can not be shaken. I do not believe in past lives. I am to old to change my ideas on life, and have had a set set of values for the past 50 years which I hold to at work and at play. Take this for what it is worth or toss it aside. My life is mine and your life is yours and trying to convince another that yours is better does not work.

I dunno why, but this kind of reminds me of "the 100th monkey" theory.

Makes me wonder just how different animals/humans are.

heheh might be where that info came from wink

I'm not a big study on a lot of the theories of metaphysics and supernatural studies, but I do pick up bits and peices from time to time 3nodding

I'm wondering, have you read the book "The Seat of the Soul?" The first chapter is about this exact topic. It's for the theory that your personalty is a part of the soul that the soul is trying to heal. I think I agree with this.

It says another thing in that chapter about how your soul exists outside of time. So it said that, to the soul, all of your personalities exist simultaneously. Meaning that, when you overcome negativity in one lifetime, it strengthens the soul and thus strengthening yourself in other lifetimes.

I find this so very confusing. If your soul doesn't exist in time, how is it growing/changing? It seems to me that if you overcome a challenge, you'd have to have been at a point where the challenge was not overcome therefore it seems impossible to grow without time. Seems like a very linear thing... which is the defenition of time itself. So, how could that be possible? How could the soul be growing while not being restricted by time? wouldn't that somehow mean that the soul was already at it's fullness and far from it at the same time?

I'm going to bring this topic back. Every so often I will save interesting topics from getting lost in the collection of things and either add the information to already existing threads of similar content or give them a bump to see if there are any fresh views on the subject.


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Do you have any thoughts about the connection between personality and soul? Are they the same thing or are they different?

I believe that our personality is a small piece of our souls, but I usually like to seperate this from my mind alot, Im uncomfortable with thinking about death and the afterlife, though i am not afraid to talk about it.