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Originally posted by Cythraul
- The existence of an imperishable soul within each of us
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nobody has a soul unless he cultivates it physically.
study some Kabbalah and Gnostic teachings.
you'll understand Kundalini rising and the fact that retaining animalistic tendencies prevents you from growing a solar body .. a soul. "sol"...
sorry to burst bubbles.. but your personal theory doesn't correlate with the ancient founded teachings of all religions.
it takes work and discipline and the aversion from temptation and taming and controlling the inner lucifer. .and defeating the inner satan to literally... physiologically.. GROW .. a "soul"...
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Originally posted by gate13
how can anyone estimate the population of the world around 50,000bc
Originally posted by Totakeke
if souls are reincarnated, then how do the souls know if they are spiritually mature?
Originally posted by Adam West
Are there any traits or things to look for that might indicate that your an 'Old Soul' ?
Originally posted by obsidience
To add to Reddupo's statement, what makes us think that time is linear in regards to a soul's past life?
Originally posted by obsidience
Final issue I have is that you seem committed to the fact that every human has a soul. I'm skeptical of this. I sometimes wonder if a human without a soul is still a personality, just one that perishes in time. And if so, is the relationship symbiotic? Would souls add something beneficial to the human existence?
Originally posted by corusso
So in regards to your theory I wouldn't say the souls are necessarlly young, but maybe new to the human form.
Also souls could be living lives on many different planes at the same time.
Originally posted by Zerbst
I like this theory very much! Great thanks to the OP!
Originally posted by suterlaben
-While I don't think you can "blame" young souls for the problems in our world
Originally posted by VelmaLu
It is interesting you judge the planet as "sick", when in fact, it may be that more advanced souls have returned at this time and volunteered to create this environment to give some souls an opportunity to evolve. . . that without this environment, they could not progress.
Originally posted by BlasteR
The problem with giving the human soul a date of creation vs. the body's biological shell is that we have no way of knowing whether or not we have something special that other creatures in the animal kingdom do not.
Originally posted by prevenge
sorry to burst bubbles.. but your personal theory doesn't correlate with the ancient founded teachings of all religions.
do you think overpopulation is good for this planet and all the organisms?
Originally posted by spitefulgod
If you believe in soul transfer between species via reincarnation, does that make you a murderer if you eat meat??
Originally posted by spitefulgod
As I don't subscribe to the notion of having a soul or life after death I can't really comment further but I think the problems with todays world is too much knowledge, back in the olden days people were kept in their place through ignorance, and as we all know ignorance is bliss.
Originally posted by 44soulslayer
Cyth you have once again shown your considered wisdom!
I agree with points 1 and 2 in total, however I'm not so sure about point 3.
Syncretic history culled from various sources teaches us that the world was a less materialistic, yet happier place many eons ago. Most religions state that the world is in a state of degeneration throughout time, and gets more and more imperfect.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Yeah. I dont think you're that far off the mark. And you know what else I think? Fairly new souls wont have a clue of what you're talking about....
Oh and by the way: If you're considerations are fairly correct, the world is not that "sick" afterall. Its just a bit of a Kindergarden.
So you see the fights and chaos and mess the kids in pre-school have...its not necessarily "sick", its just immature.
[edit on 3-2-2009 by Skyfloating]
Originally posted by Wachstum
reply to post by ~Lucidity
Young and Old does not relate to AGE! Sorry, but that's just not true. You call something young that is childish, not inexperienced
A young soul is a soul that did not learn their lessons...
So, IMHO, the fact that we are all on this planet after approx. half the time the universe exists, suggests that we are all terribly young
[edit on 3-2-2009 by Wachstum]