What is the soul?

Perhaps the problem with the idea of the soul, is that it tends to have a definition of "not physical", people don't what they mean by "physical".

"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

The soul is the 'invisible' and intangible essence of man.

"Life is full of lemons, and the lemonade is sweet."

Here is something,,,,,we take in air, we take in food, it processes, we take in thought, we take in light, we take in pleasure, we take in water, we take in sights sounds and all other tangible and intangible aspects of life. Intangible are dreams, we ahve them but we have no understanding of them, we take in emotions, we take in pain...

Without 'something' to give us life, all of these other outisde influences are unimportant.
Life begins has its processes, lives the gamut of emotions (Also intangible) but we believe them because we FEEL them. feelings come from the soul. The soul is where we hold and guage our emotions.
The soul above all things holds together the embodiment we live in.

Take away the soul, and all you have are physical needs, and physical outputs.

Eating, sleeping, breathing, and drinking.
The soul takes the physical of the body and gives it 'LIFE' we use to discuss our feelings and our thoughts. (Thoughts are caused by how we feel about something.)
The soul regulates the brain.

The intangible reaches the tangible, and thus we have personailty.

All these factors are intangible. Therefore regulated by an intangible force, we call the soul.

You cannot pinpoint a personailty, a thot, a dream, a feeling...but they are there.
And the soul if absent from the body leaves the body lifeless.

"Life is full of lemons, and the lemonade is sweet."

You are confusing the soul and emotions, there is a difference between feeling something and implied meanings developed to explain why something is felt, just like applying to life itself, to claim you know what that is is arogant.

From physical biological science to theoretical and spiritual (whatever that really is) ways of explaining things there is room for lots of possiblities, including many we are far from even thinking of yet.

Its really ok to run with romantic notions as long as you aren't trying to call them real, untill they can be proved as such, saying that I know because I feel is saying nothing, feelings change instantly and over time with the discovery and understanding of both new and old information and life experiences.

Your idea of what a soul is happens, is it not based on a book? Regardless of what you may possibly think or feel about this book, what is the answer to my question? If you say its based on your beliefs, religious or even just sculpted by what you have heard when people talk about the bibles descriptions of a spirit and soul, did not these images and ideas shape what you have come to believe to be a soul?

Things are amazing and scary no matter what true explanations lay behind them, none of this is either right or wrong, it just is. God made death and killing if it is wrong than so is god. We are supposed to take responsibility for our actions why not him? Lead by example.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

What does invisible mean? Invisible like a neutrino? It means not-physical doesn't it?

"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

no it means unseeable by the naked eye in general context, then also respective to any other ways of seeing, not physical would be more like not real, imaginary, or something that deals with not able to be felt physically, some would relate that to emotion, but emotions are physical reactions in the body.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

I can't see the germs I breathe in, I can't see neutrinos and I can't see air. Obviously people don't mean that neutrinos and germs and air are the same as the soul.

People have an implicit definition they won't tell me because they don't know it themselves.

"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

I don't know if you caught what I meant about invisible's respective definitions, it depends on who is talking about what and what type of visibility they mean physical or otherwise.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

When someone speaks of the soul's invisibility or absence of the physical world, they don't know what they mean by the terms.

"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

well, if they are just using the words from the bible then its from a old world perspective, if they say it today as just how they explain it, then they probably aren't even thinking about technical scientific possibilities, that goes towards questioning and learning the w's (who why etc.) of religion, and that isn't someplace they tend to go.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

There is no such thing as 'a' soul. No one has an 'individual' soul. The soul is not some 'lifeforce' or something.
Everything has a soul, or rather, a being. The rock in front of you, as well you yourself. In reality, there is no 'I', in reality, there is no difference between you and that tree.
The ultimate aim of meditation is becoming one with the universe, which is called enlightnment.
What is the soul? It is you withought the distraction of ur mind, it is the 'true' you.
People think that they are their personality, that they are their mind, which is wrong. In essence, me and you, are the same, we have no difference, the only differences are in our personalities, which are illusions. So, we can say, that we all are part of the same 'soul', or 'being'.

"I'll heal ur woundz I'll set u free, I m jesus christ on xtacy"

Yet you don't believe there is energy (from the energy and matter post). What is it that connects you to me to the tree if there is no energy to do so. If you look at the world from a physical perspective we are distinct and separate entities. To me, it's when you can see the energetic values of everything that you know there is a connection.

I agree absolutely that everything is connected but I also think there is distinct aspects of everything that exists.

"Love everyone, question everything and look up!"

"The ultimate aim of meditation is becoming one with the universe, which is called enlightnment. "
If there are no indivisible souls. Why can't I see out of your eyes? Why do I see out of my eyes?

"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

Because of our minds, because we can't reach that stage so easily. Once we 'forget' ourselves, then there will be no need to see from each others eyes, we will become 'something else'.
You can't see from my eyes, because in reality, even the notion of seeing from each other's perspective is an illusion, as that would mean influence of personalities.

When people die, are have near death experances, they feel that the entirety of existance was inside them. They let go of 'themselves', their 'I' vanished, and they became 'one'.

"I'll heal ur woundz I'll set u free, I m jesus christ on xtacy"

Unsubstantiative speculation.

"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"