Chapter 1 – What is the Soul

What is the soul?

Simple enough question, really complex answer.

The soul is more than just a collection of memories and instincts, those things that exist within our physical brains that can be measured. It is consciousness, feelings, intuition, imagination, the ability to contemplate the meaning of our existence and our role in the universe. The soul is that which makes you an individual in our reality.

We can describe the soul in hundreds of different ways, but defining what it truly is, why do we have one, and where did it come from has been the focus of philosophers and theologians since we were able to ask the question, “What am I?”. Which is in and of itself an indication of consciousness.

In the simplest of terms: the soul is energy.

More specifically it is energy that crosses the dimensions of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics at a frequency or wave-length that our brains have evolved to both receive and broadcast. This energy links each copy of us together directly and to varying degrees to the energy of every person and similar animal throughout the multiverse.

To illustrate:

Imagine a vast ocean comprised of an infinite number of separate liquids that never fully mix together. Each liquid is made up of a near infinite number of slightly different complex molecules whose ratio is always changing. So that each separate liquid is always in flux but always its own discreet liquid, unique from all the others.

Each liquid is able to attract or repel other liquids tied to the interactions of each of those different complex molecules to form pockets of similar liquids that are partially mixed. A rare few of these liquids in each pocket are so mixed together that variations in their chemical makeup alter the chemical makeup of the other liquids they are mixed with.

The you that is reading this article is one of those complex molecules. All of the “Yous” throughout the multiverse form the discreet liquid that is your soul. All the other liquids are everyone else’s souls. The souls that are mixing with your soul are the people in your life. The more they are involved in your life the more mixed that part of their soul is with yours and the more their energy changes yours and vice-versa.

Each one of these concepts will be explored in detail in later chapters and other books, so don’t stress if this doesn’t make 100% sense to you at this stage.

How old is the soul?

Creation of the Soul

The multiverse has existed since the very beginning of our universe. Unlike the way that the physical atoms of your body have existed since the big bang (13.8 Billion years or so), the energy that forms your soul originated within the, relatively, short time that human-like brains existed on earth. Once the accidental formation of the part of our brain that pushed through the dimensional barrier your soul, all our souls, formed. So roughly 2-10 million years ago, the basis for it might have formed in earlier brains… but the signals were not effective enough to form consciousness until our ape brains developed.

But we did not leap directly into sentience. That took time as multiverses spawned endlessly and generation after generation of these little radios came “on-line”.

To illustrate:

Imagine that the first generation of fully capable brains comprised of 10 brains. Those brains spawned 10 billion dimensional copies in their lifetimes. If 100 of those had children that shared the same frequency by the end of the second generation there would be 10 trillion of them feeding into the same energy matrix. And so on down the generations.

Your Soul

The group of energies that form you formed at the moment of your birth and the frequency of your brain was set. All your other brains at that same frequency across the multiverse were tightly intertwined with your parents forming the tightest level of your first Local Mesh.

This is why there are “Yous” that are not part of your Local Consciousness Group, no matter how similar their lives are they simply not connected.

But what about your specific soul?

That is impossible to know, but it is likely between .0001 nanoseconds and at most maybe 1 minute old. But don’t worry, you are connected, at some level to the rest of “Yous” since birth so you aren’t really that new.

Can souls be Destroyed?

Technically yes, while the multiverse is infinite it is still limited by plausibility. The multi-verse is formed from every possibility, the impossible like an earth without an atmosphere forming life like ours, would not happen so there is not a dimension where that is true. In that case, depending on the possible outcomes it is conceivable that every person in an LCG dies and that group ends, effectively destroying that soul “branch”. However, that is only one branch of a soul that traces its energy back down the line of all souls back to the beginning of souls.