A slightly different tangent: Assuming soul is a divine spark of GOD and enters the body sometime between conception and birth, when does a soul enter a body when the birth is the result of test tube creation? Also, if all souls share a common conciousness until it inhabits a physical body (one theory), does the entire conciousness decide when the soul enters the body, or does GOD, or only the individual soul destined for that body (incarnation)?

(Just a note that I disagree with your GOD->Mind->Soul because I think it is more like GOD->Soul->Mind. I think the Mind is simply a tool for soul to use while in a physical body)


>>There are religions here in the U.S. that share that idea, although most still see soul as an individual spark down here temporarily (albeit it many times) before returning to unification with the whole.
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>Right.
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>God -> mind -> soul
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>The mind and then soul are emanations of the One. That's Plotinus.
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>The point is that science, in its current transitionary state, is warping our culture's ability to understand that.
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>Most of us have come to believe that science and mathematics has no business in that territory. Or even disproves it.
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>That's a bad belief, ironically it is usually held by so-called unbelievers.
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>This is the territory from which science was born.
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>It's as if science is a caterpillar in a cocoon.
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>It's been trying to bust open, and take flight lately. It won't be trapped much longer.