wayne penner
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I have never been able to figure out just what the Soul is, what it's made of and its dynamic in space.
Most astrologers seem to agree that the Moon's Nodes have something to do with past lives. I don't understand this reasoning however any more than I understand where the Moon came from (and no one has a clear explanation of that either).
My concern with reincarnation is really two-fold, first I don't know what exactly this Soul that reincarnates is made of, and second the whole issue of reincarnation started with Annie Besant and Helena Blavatsky in the 19th Century when they brought the idea of reicarnation from India and founded the Theosophical Society on its premise.
However, the Hindus, who operate under the ancient laws of Manu, do not see reincarnation as an individual dynamic but rather a group one. You die in your caste and progress to the next, hopefully. Not so in our Western perspective, where each individual dies and lives again, a concept which I believe is flawed.
It's a difficult concept because if the individual Soul does indeed exist within us it must be made of something that differentiates it from our physical body, and so by definition it must have shape and form. Nobody I know of has yet described that shape and form, and we are left with a rather hazy definition of the Soul as some abstract thing, a word, that really doesn't describe anything any more than the term "spiritual" actually describes anything.
While a great many people are comforted at the thought that they will somehow persist beyond physical death there is no evidence, philisophical or material, that this actually true. In fact, the contrary postulate applies, so that grim as it may sound at death the psychological construct we call our personality simply disappears forever.
Most astrologers seem to agree that the Moon's Nodes have something to do with past lives. I don't understand this reasoning however any more than I understand where the Moon came from (and no one has a clear explanation of that either).
My concern with reincarnation is really two-fold, first I don't know what exactly this Soul that reincarnates is made of, and second the whole issue of reincarnation started with Annie Besant and Helena Blavatsky in the 19th Century when they brought the idea of reicarnation from India and founded the Theosophical Society on its premise.
However, the Hindus, who operate under the ancient laws of Manu, do not see reincarnation as an individual dynamic but rather a group one. You die in your caste and progress to the next, hopefully. Not so in our Western perspective, where each individual dies and lives again, a concept which I believe is flawed.
It's a difficult concept because if the individual Soul does indeed exist within us it must be made of something that differentiates it from our physical body, and so by definition it must have shape and form. Nobody I know of has yet described that shape and form, and we are left with a rather hazy definition of the Soul as some abstract thing, a word, that really doesn't describe anything any more than the term "spiritual" actually describes anything.
While a great many people are comforted at the thought that they will somehow persist beyond physical death there is no evidence, philisophical or material, that this actually true. In fact, the contrary postulate applies, so that grim as it may sound at death the psychological construct we call our personality simply disappears forever.