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1. What is a "soul?"

2. What is a soul made from?

3. What or who or how did the stuff that makes souls come into being?

4. What exactly is meant by "spiritual?" Define that word/concept precisely.

5. Where is this spiritual realm?

6. Is this spiritual realm finite or infinite?

7. What is this spiritual realm made out of. It's fundamental building blocks. Like we can say that protons, electrons, and neutrons are the building blocks of the physical realm.

8. How did this spiritual realm come into being?

8. C knows what I'm going say here, and as a matter of fact, without checking, I'm pretty sure I already have. Not only here, but elsewhere on the forum as well. So I could just say 'acausal' and maybe post a music track, and that would be that, or, I could at least indulge a couple paragraphs while simultaneously steering clear of all but the slightest degree of redundancy. Wishful thinking, perhaps.

In order to formulate a reply here. The neat, tidy, and structural orderliness of this current reality construct must be vacated, following a descension into the chaos of which gods are born. So maybe a very brief descriptive loop of nothing : chaos : order : entropy(returning to chaos) : ad infinitum. It makes absolutely no sense how anything can emerge from a static eternal state of absolute nothingness, but in any event, these are the paradoxes of that which is, and that which is not, that require resolution - if that's your thing, you know, like maybe a side gig or something.

It's not necessarily trying to visualize a negative existence, because it's more like the absence of imagination, or any visualization. You can visualize the primordial Godseed, but a common error would be to visualize it within a spatial construct which is not the case. Probably the best route is just to 'say' that there was an eternity when nothing existed, and then something happened - to steal a quote from 2001 A Space Odyssey : something wonderful.

So, the spiritual realm, and everything else came into being via this mysteriously magical and wonderful 'saviour' from this dreaded eternal nothingness, this magic that forever, without cause, causes the wheels of eternity to be forever in motion, with music and whatever else, as opposed to an eternity of silence - ignorance may be bliss, but I still go with the former.

Thus, the cosmological constant has now been upgraded to an acausal element which is not a constant, constant, but more of a recurring constant in that all times past, and all to come, it...

I believe I recall that C said that she likes INXS, so this is a good wrap on this, plus I may do a supplemental follow-up here, just for the hell of it.

1. What is a "soul?"

2. What is a soul made from?

3. What or who or how did the stuff that makes souls come into being?

4. What exactly is meant by "spiritual?" Define that word/concept precisely.

5. Where is this spiritual realm?

6. Is this spiritual realm finite or infinite?

7. What is this spiritual realm made out of. It's fundamental building blocks. Like we can say that protons, electrons, and neutrons are the building blocks of the physical realm.

8. How did this spiritual realm come into being?

3. This is the part where it gets even more fucked up. Theoretical physics will typically regress to the primordial point, but no farther, with the main reason being, I believe, is that you cannot go any farther. There is nothing beyond, and as a matter of theoretical fact, at this juncture, space, and macrocosmic time does not even exist.

There is this inevitable fork in the road. Where you can either go the one way, and accept a cosmological constant of spacetime being static, infinite, and eternal, as opposed to the other, where things magically appear out of nowhere, without cause, i.e. something from nothing. Either avenue being equally absurd upon sufficient interrogation.

With the above, and all things being equal, including the absurdities, there may still be a tendency for four dimensional beings to find it difficult, if not impossible to fathom an alternate existence of absolutely nothing, or, a negative existence, but with absurdities aside, the principle of parsimony(Occams' Razor) tends to lean in that direction.

So in further pursuit of this insanity you will ultimately come to that which emerges without cause; a self-begotten aspect of the primordial. Ineffable is the acausal of negative existence. That which is at the end of this road, and also at its' beginning.

Some will say, well if the acausal is a 'cause' from negative existence, then wouldn't that be the first cause? Wouldn't that be God?

The answer is yes and no. While technically it could be considered as first cause, it is not any type of entity per se. It's more an abstract function of the negative aspect of eternity. God would be the positive aspect of eternity.

Now if God were able to 'not exist' and at the same time initiate its' existence then this would of course create a paradox, and at this level of reasoning paradoxes can be acceptable while also somewhat a slippery slope.

Also, God functioning via negative existence leads right back to the problem of infinite regression where time would be required in order any action to be performed which invalidates the negative aspect.

Infinite regression is akin the mother of all paradoxes, and should be avoided in my opinion. In the absence of any beginning time hopelessly regresses without there ever being a point from which to proceed forward, and while eternity may function in this manner, time does not.

I do make use of Occams' Razor where I can, but to do so here, would eliminate what appears to be a very mysterious as well as crucial piece of the puzzle, and I prefer my puzzles without any pieces missing.