Soul plus Future equals generational growth

Three days ago a great friend of mine came up with the words "Soul and Future". He located these words with respect to a great idea he has, about creating a meeting place with the ambience of a bar, but the conversation of a church. To me, this is one of the most powerful suggestions I have experienced in dealing with the intersect of Science and Religion.

So the very first question you might ask is, "can you have a Soul, if you are not religious?" Lets look at the definition of "Soul".

soul (sl) n. 1. The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. 2. The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. 3. The disembodied spirit of a dead human. 4. A human: "the homes of some nine hundred souls" (Garrison Keillor). 5. The central or integral part; the vital core: "It saddens me that this network ... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news" (Marvin Kalb). 6. A person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion. 7. A person's emotional or moral nature: "An actor is ... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not" (Alec Guinness). 8. A sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music. 9. A strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist. 10. Soul music.

soul [səʊl]

n

1. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) the spirit or immaterial part of man, the seat of human personality, intellect, will, and emotions, regarded as an entity that survives the body after death Related adj pneumatic

2. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Christianity the spiritual part of a person, capable of redemption from the power of sin through divine grace

3. the essential part or fundamental nature of anything

4. a person's feelings or moral nature as distinct from other faculties

5. (Music)

a. Also called soul music a type of Black music resulting from the addition of jazz, gospel, and pop elements to the urban blues style

b. (as modifier) a soul singer

6. (Social Science / Peoples) (modifier) of or relating to Black Americans and their culture soul brother soul food

7. nobility of spirit or temperament a man of great soul and courage

8. an inspiring spirit or leading figure, as of a cause or movement

the life and soul See life [28]

10. a person regarded as typifying some characteristic or quality the soul of discretion

11. a person; individual an honest soul

upon my soul! an exclamation of surprise

[Old English sāwol; related to Old Frisian sēle, Old Saxon sēola, Old High German sēula soul]

soul-like adj

Soul [səʊl]

n

(Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Christian Science another word for God

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

If you did a word count, religion would win the day 98 to 2.

All this from the Farlex Free Dictionary!!! Then almost buried right down the very bottom of the entry, you find this .....

soul - the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

And away we go!!! ....."the actuating cause of an individual Life".

I believe that your Soul is the Sum of all that you are - good and bad, bright and dull, creative and boring. Just as a Man is judged by what he does in Life, so does a Soul capture all that is uniquely "you" - all the way through your Life, in every facet and endeavour.

I also believe in Universal Consciousness - where what I am thinking at any given time radiates out and connects with like Minds. After all, thinking is using Energy, and all Energy is irrevocably connected. And you group yourself with like-Minded people, it's what we do.

The word "Future" is a little simpler to deal with

future

noun

1. time to come, hereafter, what lies ahead He made plans for the future.

2. prospect, expectation, outlook She has a splendid future in the police force.

adjective

forthcoming, to be, coming, later, expected, approaching, to come, succeeding, fated, ultimate, subsequent, destined, prospective, eventual, ensuing,impending, unborn, in the offing the future King and Queen
forthcoming late, former, past, previous, preceding, erstwhile, bygone, quondam, ex-

in (the) future after this, in times to come I asked her to be more careful in future.

Quotations
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough" [Albert Einstein]

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Almost a linear definition, all about the "time to come".

When you combine the two words by their definition, you get something like ""the actuating cause of an individual Life.... in the time to come".

And now we have something to work with.

You can have a Soul even if you are not religious, you in fact have a Soul, and it is collecting everything about you 24/7/52, win, lose, or draw.

And the future is all about change, without which there can be no progress.

So when Mike lets loose with his great idea, get your Soul involved, and lend your weight to the future of Humanity.

You can make a difference, and you do count. Bet your Soul on it.