The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]

It seems that no amount of descriptions can overcome a severe emotional blockage... the only thing that could help would be experiencing that the soul is nowhere near as different as you seem to believe ~ beliefs that have no supporting evidence. You seem to pick the interpretations of my words that confirm your existing biases rather than thinking about it logically. All very understandable ~ emotions are very difficult things to wrangle with, as I've been learning. Some emotions take a ridiculous amount of strength to overcome, nevermind see past...

My words are merely an attempt to describe something whose scope is far beyond our own comprehension, yet is also fundamentally not particularly different from us incarnates. It's very hard to describe such a unique sensation of experiencing the soul. No, it's impossible... when there are no words in the human language for such a thing. I wouldn't know where to start.

In the end, the soul is not "drastically different" ~ it has a direct, most intimate knowing of every one of its incarnations, because they are fundamentally extensions of it. The soul I call an "it" because the soul is something not biological, as well as no fitting in within any existing human descriptions of gender or any other ideas of identity.

Severe emotional blockage? How about really having to even indirectly deal personally with a sampling of the real life injustices and cruelties of physical life that I have generically been referring to? 

All this seems particularly ineffectual when I consider the problem I am soon going to confront when I visit a relative who has been suffering constant growing pain throughout his body since starting back in November or so, now finally diagnosed as a relentlessly spreading aggressive malignant cancer. I will impotently personally witness a gritty real life example of the grueling intolerable injustice inflicted on so many humans. 

I don't think any words on my part or on your part for that matter are going to be able to assuage his acute physical and emotional suffering happening right now in real time. He does not understand these concepts and wouldn't believe them even if I tried to explain them. How to really reach him? What he most needs right now is something to at least dull the pain, when Percodan and other narcotic opiate drugs offer little relief. 

It's ridiculous to try to tell this person that during his between lives period he as his soul accepted the high probability of (or even deliberately planned and brought on) this terrible outcome of his life. I know better - it would be cruel and probably would only elicit great and justified anger at my effrontery in giving him what to him is so much New Age-seeming poppycock. As far as I can tell he is not and never has been conscious of his soul (or even less, as being part of his soul), and would scoff at these ideas.

Your words seem to me to embody much wisdom, but they still fail miserably in actually dealing with nitty gritty physical reality as it can be sometimes.