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The Vale of Soul Making
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The Egyptians believed that each person had a double called a Ka, which represented a person’s essential genius, energy, and identity, as well as a Ba, the soul or consciousness, usually shown as a bird. The elaborate mummification of the body and other funeral practices were designed to preserve both Ka and Ba. The Ka, like its former body, requir
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Zukav helped usher quantum physics into the mainstream spiritual lexicon. He offered a warm, lucid translation of one of science’s most confounding frontiers and showed that these new scientific mysteries might actually dovetail with ancient mystical intuitions. But more than that, he invited people to take their inner life seriously—to understand ... See more
The Mathematics of the Soul: Continuing the Dance with Gary Zukav
According to another Jewish legend, the evidence for this forgetting of the soul’s prenatal election is pressed right into your upper lip.7 That little crevice below your nose is where the angel pressed its forefinger to seal your lips. That little indentation is all that is left to remind you of your preexistent soul-life with the daimon, and so,
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The cosmologies of today—big bangs and black holes, antimatter and curved, ever-expanding space going nowhere—leave us in dread and senseless incomprehensibility. Random events, nothing truly necessary. Science’s cosmologies say nothing about the soul, and so they say nothing to the soul, about its reason for existence, how it comes to be and where
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What you do in your life affects your heart, alters your soul, and concerns the daimon. We make soul with our behavior, for soul doesn’t come already made in heaven. It is only imaged there, an unfulfilled project trying to grow down.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
