I’m trying to figure out my internal causal forces, but lately they seem to be smoky, correlational tangles. It’s a mist of existential ennui that I bury by trying to solidify the bonds with the people I care about. I don't often act as the enlightened individual I aspire to be. I have lofty goals that I don't understand and the questions I have are unsatisfyingly addressed.

Are emotions our guiding force? Our soul seems to be defined by our dreams, feelings, and desires. But can our emotions exist without the stimuli that bring them about? It’s difficult to imagine the emergence of emotions in a vacuum. Some people believe that the soul (consciousness; the mind; the psyche) transcends the body.

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."



I disagree, because I don't see how the soul can exist without the body nor can I envision the reverse. We have a body, but we also have a soul. Through the body, our interaction with the material world feeds our nonmaterial connection to the soul that manipulates that body. When the body dies, the soul starves and soon follows suit. It is apparent that the body is a physical manifestation of the soul and the soul is a metaphysical expression of the body. Their interaction is fundamentally connected and they are fatally dependent upon one another.

“The whole is greater than sum of its parts.”

The dual participation of the mind and the soul creates the phenomenon of existence. The senses would have nothing to read without the body’s connection to the material world and there would be no understanding without the senses to connect the body to the immaterial world. When both worlds are firmly attached, the result is being: holistic order between the physical and metaphysical.

You are not a soul. You are not a body. You have both.

Existence is greater than the sum of the soul and the body.