Soul Narrative Analysis
Historically, the soul narrative emerged as one of the plausible resolutions to the Mortality Paradox. This belief exalted human imagination beyond the restrictions of a finitude of mortal embodiment and freed human consciousness to pursue the quest of longing eternity. If a soul is an essential part of a human being, then every person ever lived has had an eternal soul, which has to continue existing some place else once it is liberated from its human embodiment shell. Cave supports the theory for the need for a designated location in an afterlife for extraterrestrial beings by claiming that "souls if they are to live forever, must live forever somewhere." The question is where?
Specifics of a geographical location of heaven is an essential component of the Soul narrative since it determines the environment where souls would exist and interact in the afterlife, and, essentially defines the core appeal of the theory. Human vision or imagination of heaven traditionally fulfilled certain expectations. …show more content…
However, in the sharp contrast to popular opinion, the current scientific consensus of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science rejects any notion of soul or spirit as separate from the activity of the brain because of the lack of physical andinvestigatable evidence of an immaterial entity being a part of a human organism.
Modern advances in the space exploration bring even more scientific data to the table. Hense, the geographical position of heaven had to remove itself from the immediate sky above the earth and became more distant and abstract entity. As human reach further in the outer space, the destination of Paradise continued to become more vague and ambiguous, so also did the kind of embodiment and the nature of souls relationships, which seem unable to be pinned down with any
Specifics of a geographical location of heaven is an essential component of the Soul narrative since it determines the environment where souls would exist and interact in the afterlife, and, essentially defines the core appeal of the theory. Human vision or imagination of heaven traditionally fulfilled certain expectations. …show more content…
However, in the sharp contrast to popular opinion, the current scientific consensus of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science rejects any notion of soul or spirit as separate from the activity of the brain because of the lack of physical andinvestigatable evidence of an immaterial entity being a part of a human organism.
Modern advances in the space exploration bring even more scientific data to the table. Hense, the geographical position of heaven had to remove itself from the immediate sky above the earth and became more distant and abstract entity. As human reach further in the outer space, the destination of Paradise continued to become more vague and ambiguous, so also did the kind of embodiment and the nature of souls relationships, which seem unable to be pinned down with any