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Author: Mike Perry
I was writing my eight digit bank account number on a form yesterday and did this without thinking about the actual individual numbers. As I reached the final digit I realised I had completed the task without thinking about it - on automatic. But more importantly I realised that 'I' had been watching 'me' fill in the numbers.
This got me thinking.
It's happened probably to most of us - this watching ourselves do something. I remember when I was tied to a job in management I sometimes had to make presentations or pass on information to staff and so on. I'm not a natural orator so I would always prepare well - very well. During the actual speech or presentation I often found myself listening to myself speak to see how I was doing. My thoughts on this led me to thinking about the soul.
Where is the soul to be found? Providing you believe we have such a thing, of course.
According to the ancient Vedic scriptures of India, for example, the size of the human soul is 1/10,000 the tip of a strand of hair and is located in the heart region and is the actual life force.
This somehow doesn't feel right to me.
If we were to sit quietly and try to find our soul we would probably search for it in various parts of our body: the abdomen, the heart, the head or brain. But if we do this I don't think we will find it. How, for instance, can the soul be in our brain if we are watching it mentally?
Running through all of this, it suddenly dawned on me - the answer to where the soul resides. The soul isn't within you. The opposite is true: you are within the soul. We live our lives on earth within our soul - this is why we can sometimes watch or listen to ourselves as we go about our daily lives.
I did a little research and read something by a Stanley King who wrote: "The fact of the soul being around, but outside of, the body was one of the things deleted from the original teachings of Jesus." I have been unable to verify that what Mr.King says is true.
Our body, however, being within our soul makes sense to me.
When I was filling in my bank account number yesterday it was my soul that was watching me do this. So when we say 'I' it doesn't refer to our body or mind it refers to our soul.
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