I have not pondered the meaning of the soul recently.
I can tell you what I was taught in Fundie School.
(Where they got it, I don't know.)
We live in a body. The body is our flesh, bones, nerves, and blood.
We have a soul. The soul is life. It is our Mind,(What I am) our Will, (What I seek) and our Emotions (What I feel.)
We are a Spirit. There are basically two flows of spirit.
1) The Holy Spirit
2) All others
And we are ourselves NOT the Holy (or other) spirits...we are in communion with them..
Of course, this is from a monotheist perspective.
This message has been edited by Phat, 03-16-2006 06:48 AM
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago