The soul is not something at rest, but rather, on the contrary, it is something always restless, active. The soul is not ready before its manifestation. The soul is not only (as psychology believed) a particular "soul-thing," standing alone in the external relation to the body, but something internal, connected with the body, forming something one-piece - a living human organism.
A soul without a body would not be a living earth soul and vice versa. When the soul leaves the body, then it will not. The human body itself does not have the self-sufficient power of life: it "receives" it with the life-giving power of the soul.
But at the same time, it is indisputable that the soul is in the body, and the body is the limit of its implementation. Without a soul, no organized living organism would exist at all. When the body loses its soul, it turns out to be not alive, but dead, when it decomposes, loses its living organization; therefore, the soul is a life-giving principle. The presence of our souls is the absolute condition of our being, the inherent principle of our life.
When the soul, as it were, shines with the rays of consciousness and self-awareness, our body keeps in the basic shape; however, even a few second loss of consciousness is enough, and the person faints. The famous principle of R. Descartes, "I think; therefore, I exist" is undeniable. Perhaps we can agree with the statement of one of the existentialists, who said: "I feel sick, then I exist."
According to Hegel, the soul is that part of man's spiritual activity, and the connection with man's physicality is still strongly affected. This view contains a profound truth. When considering the soul, psychology nor philosophy can do without feeling the connection of the spiritual world of a person with his physicality, primarily with the brain. The spiritual does not exist outside of the physical. We can say: the soul of a physically organized person in this way, that is, of his particular physicality, expresses himself in his real appearance. The appearance of the bodily presence is only the outward expression of our soul.
Man is a soul-body, psychophysical being, or otherwise: a man is an animate body or a bodily embodied soul.
The soul takes the form of an individual subject, expressed in the features of temperament, character, talent, and other dispositions. Souls of people differ from each other in an infinite number of modifications. The originality of a person's rational nature has unique features that determine the person's uniqueness.
The body you have from your birth, but the soul is its engine and master. The soul is the leader; the body is led. Soul and body - who affects whom, how?
Everyone can become a genius; just one will take fifteen years for this, another forty. And so, of course, everyone is equal. By looking at the training participants, you can almost always be sure that they can become anyone. Or almost anyone – if they have a desire. In a group of newcomers, somebody will turn into a star, and no matter what kind of readiness their bodies and mind are.
Our body is a book in which our life keeps records: not only the past but also the future. And those who know how to read this book - they read it. When the Dalai Lama is aging, and it becomes clear that he will soon need a replacement, the monks go through villages and villages, looking for a new Dalai Lama. How do they do it? Simply. Passing village after village, they look at the faces of six - seven-year-old boys and, sooner or later, they find a new Dalai Lama. Note that the problems "But the parents will not give up their son" - usually does not arise. Parents themselves see who was born to them.
Yes, the boy will pass some more tests and a lot of studies, but the main thing - he is found. Such a decision is sagacious. By the age of five to seven, everything has already written on everyone's face, everyone's eyes, and his path already imprinted in his eyes, and you just need the vision to see it all.
Undoubtedly, the soul is thinking, noticeable and unnoticed sensations, representations, excitements, and compiled concepts, judgments, conclusions, decisions, voluntary acts, goal-setting, and other spiritual phenomena. In psychology, body and soul usually considered separately, and this has its didactic meaning. But in its essence, the soul is something one-piece.
So, where is the truth? Does the body shape the soul, or does the soul build the body? I think that your research will be much more interesting than my answers.
