What do we know about souls? If a soul leaves a body at death, where is the soul before birth? Is a soul created?

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all I do know is that when I fell off of a cliff, when I was 12 years old, that I was outside of my body watching it fall and tumble down the Signal Mountain cliffside. I didn't feel any fear that my body was falling and I thought my body reminded me of a ragedy ann doll falling that way. That is the only thing I know for sure.

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" If a soul leaves a body at death, where is the soul before birth? Is a soul created? "

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In a neuro kind of way everything is created . Before birth we are an egg and a sperm waiting for their fate to unfold and the sperm ofcourse working hard to reach the egg that will create this new soul .

In a neuro way we can see this biological creation grow and die and no longer hold the soul it's body held .

However , the soul was a manifestation of a complex structure called our body and all parts of the body play a role in the soul to work .

In neuro the soul would have no activety once the body ceased to function or 'died' and hence the awareness of our soul would be in the same frame as our awarenss of our self before our sperm hit our egg . Nothing , no awareness before and after we die .

Toe up .

Sounds pretty pathetic but either we are "space garbage" lol or we have a purpose and when we have a purpose and even if we are in a coma and a caregiver helps us we have a purpose and in that case our purpose is to manifest love and it comes in many ways and in so many circumstances .

We feel this love , in all the so many realities we see everyday , is from God .

Some people believe that the soul enters at conception, I do not. I think the body must be ready for the soul, so the body is soulless untill just before birth. The soul could not connect with the body untill the body is prepared for it. I think that the soul is someplace special, just waiting to be born into the proper body.

In Baha'i Faith the soul doesn't "leave" the body nor is it "incarnated" somehow into the body... The soul is an emanation in our belief from the Divine and eventually will progress to the presence of God.

Some quotes from the Baha'i Writings:

`As to the soul', writes Bahá'u'lláh, `... it is sent forth by the Word of God';[42] and `Abdu'l-Bahá says that the soul is `a spirit with which God has endowed him [man] at creation';[43] it is `... a depository, emanating from the light of the Ancient Entity -- God',[44] `It is a divine bounty. It is the effulgence of the Sun of Reality',[45] suggesting that the soul is a spiritual entity created by God through emanation.


- Art

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I am trying to see if I read this correctly. In the Baha'i faith, the soul is part of the body, and will sleep or something similar after the body dies? That it exists before the body but is not incarnated? I am confused, if you couldn't tell already. Would you explain further?

A swedish scientist believes the root of the soul lies at the quantum level. He believes that because quantum particles do not follow the rules of physics for particles the size of electrons and bigger, and that they can be in two or more places at once, then that is what the soul is. He even claims that bodies are a fraction lighter just after the time of braindeath.

Here is my question.. if the soul is the body as a whole, and it depends on it's entirty, then if somebody gets hit in the head and suffers brain damage, what happens to the soul after death?

IF they were a gibbering idiot in life because of brain injury, would the same be true if there was an afterlife?

maybe the sould doesn't enter the body till the baby is being born. When it breaths its first breath. Like God breath life into Adam after He had made Adam.

New book by Douglas R. Hofstadter, "I Am a Strange Loop" adds another quite brilliant viewpoint.

Hofstadter is the author of "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" and other books, and I'm finding this one quite brilliant (as I always do with him). His take on the soul, or this mysterious entity called "I" is most interesting. Well worth a read.

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I just started reading that book!

-TC