Understanding Life Through the Process of Death

You are born into this world with a natural born curiosity. As you begin to grow and mature you learn to watch, and also to imitate others. Everything you see and touch from an early age is incredible to the young developing mind.

Soon "like and dislike" is learned, so you began to choose between these two emotions. Now you're a sentient being; because you have begun to reason, and also to make emotional decisions on your own. Now the ego begins to develop, so it finds a comfortable place in your mind to exist. Opinions are now being formed and regulated in your mind from choices and decisions which were made early in life.

Placing Opinions and Thoughts

Opinions are conditioned thoughts which bounce around the mind for the rest of your life. As you experience life and its wonders new thoughts invade the mind, and now more opinions are being formed and registered in the mind. Now ideas are formed on most everything you experience. The mind is soon getting heavily bombarded with new thoughts every second of the day. Now the trick is to rationalize these thoughts, and also to place these thoughts somewhere comfortable in the mind.

From all of these millions of random thoughts you begin to form ideas about life itself, and also the worries of death. Life we figure is something which we can control to a certain extent. But death, now that's a different matter altogether.

Reflections of Life

As you begin to mature and grow older, you soon begin to wonder exactly why you're here, and also what your purpose is in life. You ponder the reason for your existence, and also how everything fits together into a nice neat understandable picture. To understand the "big picture" you must first understand how life and death fit together like a nice warm glove.

In my opinion, the purpose of living and also dying (which is a badly used term) is all about the enhancement of the soul. The soul is a never ending source of energy which thirsts for spiritual enlightenment until it merges with the spirit of God. Every existence you live is for the growth and ascension of the soul. This soul is the true spirit of "who" you really are.

Living a third dimensional existence means that the soul exists in an earthly body. This body has its needs, but it also has its earthly desires which can go into battle against the desires of the soul. Most people feel the inner self which lives inside us all, but some live by the desires of the body in a never ending battle; which takes place between the third dimensional body and the soul.

Debating the Existence of the Soul

Everyone feels the need for love, but we also feel the desire for power. This never-ending battle is what the enlightenment of the soul is all about. Every living being that has a subconscious mind also has a soul.

This subconscious is what rules the mind when the body (or mind) is idle or asleep. Without a soul we would be a two dimensional being. Such emotions as: regret, compassion, love, shame, and guilt would be theoretically non-existent.

Plato, and Socrates "considered the soul as the essence of a person, that decides how we behave." The platonic soul is comprised in three parts: the Logos, which controls the mind or thought, the Thymes, which controls emotion, and last the Eros, which regulates our desires. When these three parts are balanced and regulated there is a healthy and also regulated soul.

St. Thomas Aquinas contended that the soul operated separately from the body, and "therefore could subsist without the body." So, as the soul is not "made up of matter or form it could not possibly be destroyed in any natural process." The complete elaboration of Aristotelian theory can be found in the Summa Theologica.

The Path of the Soul

In contention that there is a soul, what we do in each lifetime determines were we go when our body is no longer needed, and our soul passes from this world. With each lifetime the soul learns and experiences all sides of the proverbial coin. Negativity has been stated as the best teacher of the soul. Without negative thoughts there would be no lessons to be learned.

Each time we encounter negativity our rational mind kicks in trying to provide a positive outlook for a particular situation. Each positive outlook is what builds character for the soul. Without negativity we would never learn about the positive side of things, everything would always be one sided with no other types of experiences to be had. Without negativity we would all be in a constant state of heaven.

Every incarnation is for a particular type of learning to be experienced or learned. Before we incarnate into any existence our "higher self" picks exactly what our soul will experience in this life. We incarnate with a "life theme" which is also what we're supposed to overcome and achieve in this particular life. After each lifetime of experience and learning comes the best part of living; which is dying or ascension. This ascension is the evolution of the soul.

Dying is the achievement for living. Each lifetime gives your soul a more spiritual outlook as it experiences each dimension with different types of experiences. The soul is on a spiritual quest as it evolves and grows towards it final achievement; merging with the spirit of God. Death is the end result of life, and that's exactly why it's saved for the last trip in this dimension. The body may pass away and die, but the soul lives on forever.

Source of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul