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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that the spirit and body together constitute the Soul of Man (Mankind), stating: "The spirit and the body are the soul of man." [ 32 ] Latter-day Saints believe that the soul is the union of a pre-existing, God-made spirit, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] and a temporal body, which is formed by ...
This cycle can be broken after a soul achieves Moksha or Nirvana. Any place of existence, either of humans, souls or deities, outside the tangible world (heaven, hell, or other) is referred to as otherworld. Hell, in many religious and folkloric traditions, is a place of torment and punishment in the afterlife.
For Clark, in oblivion there is even an absence of experience, as we can only speak of experience when a subjective self exists. According to neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, consciousness is "all we are and all we have: lose consciousness and, as far as you are concerned, your own self and the entire world dissolve into nothingness." [18]
In Christianity, annihilationism (also known as extinctionism or destructionism) [1] is the belief that after the Last Judgment, all damned humans and fallen angels including Satan will be totally destroyed and their consciousness extinguished rather than suffering forever in Hell.
According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings, [5] the mind is the latest acquisition of the human spirit and is related to the Region of Concrete Thought, which is the lower region of the World of Thought. It is not yet an organized body, and in most people it is still a mere inchoate cloud disposed particularly in the region of the head.
This spirit is also present within human beings, although in a more conscious form, and is responsible for the development of human consciousness and culture. [7] He sees it as a kind of pre-rational or pre-conscious realm that underlies conscious experience. [7] In that view, the unconscious spirit is the source of creative inspiration and ...
The experience of a colour can be profound, but it doesn't really exist other than in our minds.
Philosopher Evan Thompson outlines Dharmakīrti's main point as follows: "matter and consciousness have totally different natures; an effect must be of the same nature as its cause; hence consciousness cannot arise from or be produced by matter (though material things can condition or influence consciousness)." Thompson further notes that for ...