The Soul - formulating a definition

September 22, 2024

The Soul

1. There is a single point in which all experience converges into a continuous conscious reality. The Soul is that Singularity, and is perhaps a fractal of God’s Soul. In connection to the physical world through the mind and body, our souls have an input characterized by consciousness, and output characterized by intention.

2. The purpose of the Soul is the convergence of experience, into one cohesive reality. The soul is infinite, so it both changes and does not change; its connections change, but it always remains singular and indivisible.

3. The Soul's role in the physical world is to be conscious of it, and to enact its will within it. The Soul does not perceive, the mind does, the soul turns those perceptions into a singular conscious experience. The medium of experience is the World, mind, and body. Free will from the Soul is merely the soul's output through the mind and body to the World. Free will, here, does not mean the ability to do anything one imagines. Free will is synonymous with intention, in this theory.

4. The Soul's relation to other Souls is through individual mind-body connections to the World. Souls are otherwise separate from each other, although perhaps connected in virtue of being fractals of God's Soul. God's Soul would be considered a collective consciousness.

5. The Soul is infinite. The body and mind will die, but the Soul cannot. The Soul is non-local, it does not exist in any physical place. The Soul instantiates the mind-body connection.

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BODY

The Living Boundary

Your body is not one boundary. It’s boundaries all the way down.

○ is body as interface. It’s the place where inside meets outside, where you open and close, where you breathe in air, take in food, receive touch, absorb experience. It is not a wall. It’s a selective membrane—alive, responsive, and always in motion.

Try This

Close your eyes and feel where your body ends and the air begins. Notice how many tiny sensations are being woven into that one felt “edge.”

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MIND

The Field Between

Φ is mind as field—the living medium between center (•) and boundary (○). It’s the whole relational space where signals from the body come in, where awareness from the center flows out, and where the two blend into conscious experience.

Try This

Notice your body breathing by itself. That’s ○. Now notice that you’re noticing. That reflective awareness is flowing from •. Then feel the space in which both are happening. That’s Φ.

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•

SOUL

The Aware Center

• is soul as center—not a substance lurking somewhere inside you, but the point of view from which everything is seen. It is the structural center of the whole circumpunct.

Bodies change completely over a lifetime. Memories blur, identities shift. And yet, there’s a sense that the one who was there then is the same one who is here now.

Try This

Close your eyes. Notice your breath. Then, gently, turn attention back toward that awareness itself—not the objects in it, but the fact that knowing is happening. That’s •.

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⊙

CIRCUMPUNCT

The Whole You

⊙ is the circumpunct: a circle with a point at the center. The circle is the boundary that holds everything that is “you” as a single system. The point is centeredness—the soul that experiences from within.

Instead of thinking, “I have a body, I have a mind, I have a soul,” you can think, “I am ⊙: a whole being whose body, mind, and soul are three faces of the same process.”

Try This

Feel your body as one shape (○). Notice the space of awareness in which thoughts arise (Φ). Sense the quiet center that’s aware of all of this (•). Then soften your attention to hold all three at once. That’s ⊙.

You are not on your way to being ⊙. You are ⊙, right now.

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