Re: Location of the soul
Posted: 17 Apr 2016
Pink Panther wrote:Why does any teaching of soul or god need continual accumulation of properties, growing bureaucracies, endless demands of people’s time and money in exchange for that supposedly life improving "knowledge" of the value of the immaterial?
Ha. It's the other way around ... where you don't have real goods or services to trade, you "need" an unique and exclusive idea to differentuate your milking machine from every other religion's milking machine. Therefore just make one up.
For me, it's the just same mentality as Indian restaurants in overseas cities. Have you ever noticed how the tend to open restaurants right next door to each other until you end up with a street of nigh identical curry shops? Their idea is, "oh, if he can make some money there ... and I open up just along the street ... I'll make/take some of that money too".
So too with philosophical concepts. Trying to start a whole new philosophical concept is hard work, so just take someone else's and modify it a little and open up a religion, just along the street a little from theirs, to catch passing traffice.
Which is why BKs open centres near temples or at pilgrimage places.
GuptaRati 6666 wrote:One reason for the great excitement associated with the heart transplants by Christian Bernard, Denton Cooley, Michael DeBakey, and Norman Shumway in the 1960s and 1970s has been due to the entrenched association between the physical heart and the metaphysical soul.
One recollection I have from a conversation with the Hare Krishnas (Vaishnavite revivalist religion) who believe the soul is in the heart was that, quote, "Krishna cut the head of a man and stuck a donkey's head on his shoulders and he continued to live".
That "proved" it must be true.
The point being that in a "magical world" ... where no one does any real science ... anything can be true, and modified or revised to be true again when proven false ... if only one believes enough. The guru can always make up a plausible excuse to maintain his or her control over the following.
My respect to those real scientists "stumbling in the darkness", as the BKs say, doing the painstaking, incremental work to increase our understanding.
I presume we are still along way away from being able to detect and measure "soul energy" and this is all being done by looking at electrical energy? Not to say that that does not indicate "soul" ... I remain more open to the possibility of a discrete entity than alternative concepts ... but rather than it indicates centralised effects of ... something else presently unknown?