The Angel Files
It all started when I woke up one morning with a question eating at the corner of my brain: What is a soul?
In the words of a great American philosopher and baseball coach, "If you don't know what you're looking for, you ain't gonna find it." What the heck is a soul? Is it big or small? How do you measure it? What color is it? Where does it like to hang out? Does it laugh when you tickle it? How will I know it's what I'm looking for when I find it?
I logged on to enlightenedcucarachas.com and asked just these questions. Here's an excerpt from my log...
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In which I ponder the question, "what is a soul?"; hack into a celestial tech-support chat room and talk with an angel; turns out that the spiritual being is just as mystified about "what is a body?"...
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In which I consult with clinical psychiatrist who claims experience in treating angels. But we end up discussing physics...
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In which I get a lesson in quantum mechanics from a rogue physicist trading in Kazakhstani warheads and high mathematics...
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In which I unearth a historical transcript of a 1926 Copenhagen-Berlin phone conversation between Neils Bohr and Erwin Schrodinger...
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I which my research takes me south of the Mexican border in my air-conditioned Hummer to the
Guadalajara Rebbe's Shteibl and Mind-Body Fitness Center...
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In which occurs the disastrous end to an attempt by my Tech Angel friend and his buddy from Marketing to set up a Heaven-to-Earth tourism industry...
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Totally agree with Michaël! We humans can create our own truth and imagery and as such experience angels within the world of experience. That is asking and yes, you will receive.
What's the difficulty? A soul is what gives a physical body the power to use all its internal and external organs including the brain. Without the soul, the body is just a blob of flesh and bones.
That's the simple explanation. The other or more profound questions are: where did it come from, who made it, how does it work, can it die, why can't we see it etc. etc.
I recently watched a brilliant video by Rabbi Friedman on YouTube regarding the "Soul". It was the best 44 minutes I've ever spent watching a video. Infact I've watched it twice since. I have always been a spiritual person and like a lot of people have often asked, what is the soul and what is it's purpose. The video is the perfect way to understand this question often asked by so many people. I am forever grateful to Rabbi Friedman for making this video.
My soul is specifically and only the part of my thinking and feeling (reasoning and emotions) that the Eternal-the-Creator formed within me.
I doi not need nor wish any other explainaition for MY soul.
Reference: The opening prayers I say each mornong after arising.
I don't recall ever signing up for Chabad news letter; though they are interesting, if only I had time to read them all.
I am more of a philosophical type, and am convinced that folks do not really have souls (or selves), but they individually create the notion in order to explain why all the thoughts produced in their minds usually seem to occur in a localized area.
Thoughts that occur in a localized area include" my back hurts!'", "those colors are really pretty!"; yet others include X² + Y² = R². I didn't make up that last part myself, it was presented from an outside influence.
To sum it up, "everything always seems to happen to me!" is a fault of our assuming there is always a cause for every effect, and is especially pronounced in our use of subject and predicate. "Lightning strikes", "life grows", are merely redundancies once this subject/predicate is exposed for what it is: this is equal to that".
We do not have souls, we only think we do.
Sorry for being controversial
Nikola Tesla said that if you want to discover the secrets of the universe, study energy, frequency & vibration. “Hear” O Israel our L-rd our G-d the L-rd is ONE; we are ONE within He (Creation), and He is ONE within us (Soul). Know that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. The source of Infinite Intelligence. ASK and yea shall receive.-Author The Eternal ONE.
Angels are 2 fold; those that HaShem designed as infrastructure to creation defined by Rambam in sefer hamada on the mitva of love G-d and a second category as the angels we create by our actions, prayers blessings.
Among the nation (people) of Israel
We have individuals that have visions or/and dreams of angel. The angels appear to us in forms with various physical or only 'spiritual' forms.
The knowledge of angels themselves spans all space and time as their view and perception is not physically limited.
A vision or dream of angels is always awesome and beautiful and frightening but are in the category of undeniable truth.
Never mind about of what your soul consists, it is much more important about how it communicates. I believe that it is through one's conscience that one's soul communicates.
As a child I became very upset after watching the Walt Disney cartoon movie about the adventures of Pinocchio. This story is about a wooden puppet, which is granted life and freedom to do what he likes, but he is also provided with a small cricket as a close friend and conscience, which advises him about what is right or wrong. Pinocchio does not often take this advise!
This idea upset me for many years, because I worried about my conscience and what it was thinking about me, Only after becoming adult did I overcome this phobia, and realise that it was my soul's conversion that was affecting me through this medium.
I would like to see other reader's and Rabbi's views about this concept of the conscience and its connection with our souls.