Wrong assumption :o) The soul enters the body at birth and departs the body at death.


>>A slightly different tangent: Assuming soul is a divine spark of GOD and enters the body
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>Bad assumption.
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>God -> mind -> soul -> body
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>The soul doesn't enter a body.
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>The body emanates from soul.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus
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>"The first emanation is nous (thought or the divine mind, logos or order, reason), identified metaphorically with the demiurge in Plato's Timaeus. It is the first will towards Good. From nous proceeds the world soul, which Plotinus subdivides into upper and lower, identifying the lower aspect of Soul with nature. From the world soul proceeds individual human souls, and finally, matter, at the lowest level of being and thus the least perfected level of the cosmos."
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>>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)?
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>>(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)
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>That's a common modern (mis)understanding of the mind that completely betrays the reason why human being's invented the word "mind".