Definition: Soul

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Revision: 6 Jan 2025

Soul

Nonincarnating and nonlocal aspect of self.
Soul supports the local, incarnating self by making choices in nonlocal consciousness to create and evolve circumstances in local experience.
There is one Soul of All that ramifies into a multiplicity of souls.
All souls are subpatterns of the one Soul of All.
The pattern of soul consists of recursively defined layers that are all in correspondence, much like a fractal.
The collectivity of souls corresponds to layers of the one Soul of All.
The degree of collectivity of soul that one experiences increases as awakeness decreases, and decreases as awakeness increases. I.e., as one awakens, the experience of soul evolves to include more of the Soul of All.
Identification determines how much of the pattern of soul is available in awareness. One who is identified as an individual strongly experiences having an individual soul. One who identifies more broadly has a greater awareness of participating in one or more soul groups, and such a one operates more through collectivity. One who identifies as All That Is has access to the Soul of All and operates through nondual creativity. For one who has released identification entirely, neither self nor soul is meaningful.
Soul is immortal in that it does not die. However, when identification is transcended, the experience of having a soul is complete and therefore it comes to an end.

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