---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote :
On 7/22/2014 8:50 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I, too, had a dark night of the soul and you have described it well. It, the experience, the depths of despair and the places you have to reach into in order to simply survive is beyond words, ideas or intellect. That place is grittier and scarier and ultimately more fruitful than those things. And when you come out the other side you are changed forever, in some very fundamental way - at least I was. > "The term "dark night (of the soul)" is used in Christianity for a spiritual crisis in a journey towards union with God, like that described by Saint John of the Cross." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul We don't know anything about a soul-monad until we have become mature enough to listen and read about it. We don't get born knowing about a soul or spirit. So, where do we get these ideas? Mostly from our eyes and our ears and he cald means of knowledge - verbal testimony. So, is there any logical reason for postulating, based on our eyes and ears, that there should be a God or an individual soul for each person? There are numerous souls, some say, each to an individual. If so, would there not be an equal number of Gods, each to an individual? If in actual life we see the many, would not the many be seen through intuition? This relates to the fear and insecurity that has driven man to seek permanence in himself. How this requires a standard, something outside himself to compare himself to. Strangely enough this postulate does not allay man's fears, but magnifies them. He now lives in fear of eternal damnation if any of his soul's laws are transgressed. This is much worse than death, for even in this we could hope for reincarnation. Humans cannot, apparently, help this kind of thinking, or can they? Accepting or believing that each of us has our own individual soul that somehow survives us at death, to become disembodied and to separate itself from us to remain apart from God and to enjoy another life in heaven is a belief that has become common. For without our soul we are nothing? It seems at first so natural (really preternatural) to think of my soul. No soul? God forbid! But even before we examine what a soul is, perhaps we should ask why there is 'soul talk.' Go figure. Well, at least we know there's a Soul Train.
