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Peter,  how ya doing?     Just opinion per-chance to think.

The soul is the element of our being and also connected to the Life force of the Universe.  Sleep, trance and awake are all actual grades of life.  A tree is alive yet its grades of awake-ness are different to ours.

 

You are going to have to rely on your imagination for this answer because,  like most of this Universe we are just not able to cognisees, comprehend its true form.  Like the wind and thoughts and beauty and hope.  We are only the witness of these effects.  The soul is just a word for how we try to explain how life is more than what we can see.  Know that for most of its life this planet was a barren rock with nothing no life.  Then one day life happened.  Like the big bang where something happened in the nothing.  One day life happened here, simple and basic but it was life from nothing.  If not this planet another? Who knows.  That’s how you and me evolved on this planet. If you consider how a spider can build a web without training or language you might see it is born with knowledge. Many life forms show signs of being born with inherent knowledge.  Something from a previous life existence is contributing to the present life existence.  Passed-on in the genes perhaps why-not?  No-one can ever know life outside of life that is why we need imagination,  humans are imagination,  it’s a good (God) thing.

It’s only this effect which has always given the concept of reincarnation and life existence before and after.   If you surrender the ego and see that you existed before as someone else then it’s the soul that travels from life to life.   

Kind regards.

 

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