PROOF OF A SOUL FROM THE TRANSCENDENTALS AND OUR INTERIOR SENSE OF GOD

Around the world, there is a consistent awareness of and belief in a deity that stands at the foundation of the world’s religions. Many people seek a connection with a higher or transcendent power that has made itself known to us through the internal spiritual or mystical awareness of and desire for God that each individual has.

Throughout history, philosophers, theologians, and psychologists have written extensively on this internal awareness of a higher power, which most religions call “God.” They identify eight major indications of this “interior sense of God”:

1. The awareness of and desire for perfect truth
2. The awareness of and desire for perfect love
3. The awareness of and desire for perfect justice/goodness
4. The awareness of and desire for perfect beauty
5. The awareness of and desire for perfect home
6. The numinous experience
7. The awareness of the sacred in the world
8. The awareness of a cosmic struggle between good and evil

What do these 8 indications of an interior sense of God have to do with proof of a soul? Plato and Augustine both believed they had a transphysical soul on the basis of indications 1-5, which grouped together are called the 5 transcendental desires. Indications 6-8 describe our interior awareness of a “transcendent reality” (God) and give further evidence that we ourselves are transcendent.

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