THE TRUTH ABOUT SOULS

Each human today is born with what we think of as a soul, which is an infinitesimal part of the universal consciousness that is God. That has not always been the case. Early humans appeared some 2.5 million years ago, but Homo sapiens have only walked the earth for around 200,000 years. And it was not until 70,000 years ago that our species was deemed ready to start hosting souls. With souls, we began to utilize previously dormant parts of the brain to form complex language, think abstractly, imagine and create religious myths.

At birth, the soul provides the spark of intelligence that jump-starts the brain. Thereafter, the brain generates YE, which is either consumed by thoughts and dreams, or stored as memories. At death, the soul survives and absorbs the stored YE. The soul is then reborn in another being or rejoins the collective consciousness at the core. Just as scientists cannot yet identify YE, the locus of the soul shall remain a mystery until God chooses to disclose it. Nevertheless, the soul interacts with the parts of the brain devoted to reason and emotion to create one's personality. Although a soul remains part of the whole, it functions indepedently when inhabiting a body.

Not all souls are the same. They can represent the full ranges of young and old, weak and strong, or good and evil. The Hindu concepts of samsara and moshka are partially correct, in that some souls do seek perfection so that they can end the cycle of being reborn, and thus return to the core. Other souls enjoy the experience of life too much - both the pleasure and the pain - to ever stop the cycle. And when such souls are evil, they are less likely to alter subsequent behavior.

The match between a body and a soul is oftentimes a matter of random selection. A majority don't care whether they come back as a lady working a window in Amsterdam, or a gent who pays fifty euros for 20 minutes of her time. Others are more selective and may try to rendezvous with souls they have previously known. There are also instances when souls may be punished for sins committed in a past life, or even in a current one. For example, the soul of a child abuser may be reborn in an infant whose mother is starving to death in Sub-Saharan Africa, so that the soul will suffer during the lifetime of the body. How this system of punishment works was not revealed to us. We only know it happens.

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