Following the invitation of Maximius Flavius, I will venture to tread the numinous territory of the soul.

To begin with, any discussion of soul would need to deal with the existence of "soul". To pose the existence of a soul would require that we accept the existence of energy / consciousness outside of the human mind.

Plato did point out to us that there is more to the universe than is known to our senses, that human knowledge is a limited and filtered compendium of perceptions.

We know that as a human race we have gathered a collection of perceptions from our most talented and gifted, as well as the general populace that points to the existence of order and "more" than what is perceived.

Together with our individual and collective sense that there is something personal that predates our personal presence; something personal that survives our personal physical manifestation here on planet earth. Rational or not, that sense, that "knowingness" is there and has been there since our first ancestors gave voice in one fashion or other to their "thoughts".

Therefore, we can make a preliminary case for the existence of a "soul".

l'aigle