Philosophy Club: the Soul

As of last night, I consider myself an initiate of Auburn's (fledgling) Esoteric Philosophy Club (held at a friend's apartment on Glenn.)

Eventually the "soul" question came up, so I thought only briefly before replying to keep the ball rolling. I like the idea of everything coming from One, such as everything comes from everything else: Infinity equals One. More on that later...

I answered that the soul is the catalyst beginning at conception. Since life begets life and energy begets energy, the moment of conception must need a catalyst for life to start as one- this I think is the soul. Others said I may mean "driving force," but this is too vague and cliche for me. Some driving force must exist in the universe for everything to begin, live, die, and renew, but I do not think it is as vague when it comes to my individual existence. Driving force may be the element which decides all things to exist, but it is the soul which is the extra "nudge" in creating a specific life. Without the catalyst, the conception fails.

This push can also be explained as "God's will," such as when couples cannot conceive together. I am not so arrogant to assume that alternative methods of conception are a perverse solution to the natural order of things. I am in support of in vitro fertilization, even with the cost of life. As much as death is scary and real, when life does not beget life it does not mean anything is lost. If everything comes from One, such as the Conservation of Matter theory seems to draw from, then nothing is ever truly lost or gained **-HOWEVER-** there is a tiny, miniscule ote of matter that is unaccounted for in reactions. I learned this a long time ago and it amazes me how often this fact goes ignored!! I then hear,

"Well, it's such a tiny insignificant amount, we don't count it."

INSIGNIFICANT?! This is our UNIVERSE we're talking about! Millions, billions, trillions, "xxx"-illions of reactions, comings and goings, and we say it is insignificant?! What wonders we would discover if we were to track this matter, possibly to the source of Everything and Nothing, to the "5th Dimension" where light can be tasted and touched...

Here is my answer for the Soul- it is my beginning, middle and end, the spark that beget my life like a spark for a fuse, traveling the length of wire to the inevitable stick of dynamite that is my death, to shatter and be spread out into everything else. Yeah, death is like dynamite, and we all have to go off sometime.