Personally I think your soul contains and boarders your own personal, magical kingdom, where any ideal thing and any ideal body you want goes. I also think the soul is able to fatherly/motherly mind with a mind inner itself aswell as outter itself, since currently here on earth within you is your very own kingdom. I think we on earth are minding outside of our soul, to gather great ideas of what in all we could ever want in our own magical kingdoms we will be returning back within some day. So one ingredient I think is commandable magic within the soul.
Very well said, WarJohn. Were you a soldier? If so, I salute you and thank you. I have to fully agree with you on the quoted text. The soul to me is a separate Energy Being that is simply trapped in these carbon based receptacles for the duration of an Earth cycle, reincarnated fast in recent years, I am pretty certain that some outside force has altered the software so they could control things.
When I saw "software," I mean an operating system that is capable of inhabiting a human, or perhaps other body, control all of it's automatic functions, plus be able to learn from visual and audible and odour input, and a host of other things it takes to "be a human being." Some of us have a hard time with this.
I too think of the Soul as a Home built by me, a place of rest, and a place of peace. I have seen my home many times, and have fond memories of it.

