(2021-08-28, 04:25 AM)Kamarling Wrote: I wonder too what the link is between body and soul.
I've read of cases of those "earthbound" souls who inhabit unconscious but living humans for a brief 'hit' of physicality. So that's a kind of possession, I guess. Then there's the question of when does a soul enter the physical body - at birth, during pregnancy or at conception? From what I've read it seems to happen sometime in late pregnancy.
By the way, I also read The Romeo Error and Supernature in the '70s.
Where did you read about these "earthbound" souls and their short stints of possession?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell