The Soul Podcast – Navigating the Human Journey

Send us Fan Mail This is the final episode in the history series on The Soul. We started in episode one… 70,000 years ago, then moved forward, through the human journey. We saw how The Soul has always been a part of our history. And how -long before the development of written language- we always knew there was more to us than the body. We saw people fight to preserve the right to connect to the de...

Send us Fan Mail It was a time of massive change in Europe. In the 1700s the Renaissance was coming to a close the Age of Enlightenment was beginning. And one aspect of the age of enlightenment was open skepticism. People started to drop any sort of blind faith they may have once had, and they questioned authority more openly and with more intensity. They started looking for truth and proof, befor...

Send us Fan Mail We travel to the middle ages -a time when people are being persecuted for speaking about the sprit inside. We see how the Soul triumphs over hate and fear. Show Notes Recommended Reading : The Mirror of Simple Souls (paperback) by Marguerite Porete…  Free online copy (scanned copy of the 1924 edition)..  QUOTES: "The soul, an eternal spirit, is beyond time's hold:       ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we see the end of an old religion and the rise of a new one -and see how the belief in The Soul continues across the divide. We're see dark clouds rise on the horizon, as the Catholic Church claims ownership of The Soul. Show Notes  Recommended Reading: The Bhagavad Gita   Phaedo (aka On The Soul) - Plato   Quotes : "Socrates could not prove that the soul...

Send us Fan Mail Thousands of years before modern religions were born, people around the globe understood that when we sit quietly we can connect with the spirit inside. What can we learn from these ancient humans? Show Notes: Correction – In this episode I said the Lothagam North Pillar Site is located in West Africa. It is not. It is located in Kenya, East Africa.  Lothagam North Pillar Site   S...

Send us Fan Mail Centuries before the religions we know today, people on all continents were talking about the soul inside all of us.  What can we learn from these early people?  Show Notes: The Sumerians had a word for the Soul -  “Zi”  (which is pronounced “Shi”)  Egyptian for Soul  “Ka” 𓂓 Sanskrit for Soul  Pūruṣha  पुरुष Tamil language for Soul…   āṉmā  (ஆன்மா) or ātma (when used as a noun) Qu...

Send us Fan Mail More than 6,000 years before Stonehenge we were writing about the soul. Before Saber Tooth Tigers and Woolly Mammoth had gone extinct people were already seeing ourselves as immoral.  Show Notes: Göbeklitepe (link to more information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe ) The Vulture Stone (image and article)  https://www.ancient-origins.net/editorials/vulture-stone-gob...

Send us Fan Mail Evidence that Stone Age people believed in the soul. Today we start a journey into the history of the human relationship to the soul. You may be surprised how long we've known we are more than just the body.  Support the show Has the show made a difference for you? Click this link for ways you can support the show. 

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