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If you treat a person as though they had no soul they
will respond as though they had no soul; at least that is
quite likely to happen. If the physicist designs an
experiment to prove that an electron is a particle the
experiment will confirm the hypothesis. If the physicist
designs an experiment to prove that an electron is a wave
the experiment will confirm that apparently contradictory
hypothesis. Similarly people tend to behave as if they
did or did not have a soul depending upon the
presupposition of their associate. People who are
convinced that nobody has soul will thus have their
presupposition confirmed; just as will those who are
convinced that people do have soul. Thus, whether or not
people have soul is a question which cannot be answered by
traditional objective analysis, it is not a scientific
question of the usual sort.
Soul becomes apparent only in the context of
intimate personal relationships which are reciprocally
open and non-manipulative. Soul is not part of an
objective relationship. Soul is not the object of
analysis. Soul is revealed in whole relationships. Soul
is an aspect of a whole personal relationship, not a part
of an isolated person. An isolated person is not a whole
person. Soul is an aspect of whole persons within
intimate personal relationship. In the absence of
intimacy there cannot be personal wholeness. Soul will
not be found by alienated scientists objectively analyzing
alienated persons. Soul is known only through
participation which transcends the methodology of
objective research and analysis.
Soul does not belong to a person. A person cannot
possess or save their soul, because it is not theirs; it
is an aspect of intimate relationships with other people.
That which does not exist apart from relationships between
people, cannot belong to any isolated person. Soul is an
aspect of relationships, not a part of a person. Soul is
not saved from Hell for an eternIty in Heaven after
death. Soul is known in the Eternal Now of the Kingdom of
Heaven which is at hand as we touch each other with love.
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