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Roy,
Conventional definitions are limiting in that they can be understood intellectually but cannot be experienced. An explanation of the "living characterization" versus the "dead definition" follows based on Steiner's expression of the two.
"A dead thought can be understood but not experienced. As soon as it is conceived, it is fully matured. As soon as it is born, it cannot grow. A living thought, on the other hand, can be experienced. It can be grasped, but only to a certain extent, for the experience of its reality is dependent upon our own maturity. As we grow and mature, so does the living thought within us grow and mature." [Katz]
I think you are saying somewhat the same thing, but I want to clarify this distinction because it's a point overlooked, or not considered, at least consciously, by many.
I agree with you about plants and minerals. Neither of them have souls. Animals have a group soul and differ from humans in that humans have an ego, an individuality. Judgment and consciousness are relative to comphrehension, as can been seen in macrobiotics, so they are important as well in spiritual understanding.
Transmigration of the soul, also known as karma and reincarnation, is another choice one can make in one's understanding of the whole picture. I wonder what this "sea" is where souls go back to that Webster describes. Can you clarify that?
My personal opinion about 'transmigration', without getting into all the details, is that, given the choice, and purely for no other reason, I would think that something was eternal was far more exciting/interesting than limiting it to one lifetime. This gives me so much more room to work and look forward to. How vast is infinity, for example. How much is there that can't be attended to in one lifetime? I feel freer looking past death and into a continuous flow.
Macrobiotics is limited, in my opinion, without God. That doesn't mean people can't be macrobiotic. My experience has been that macrobiotics led me into spirituality and God, something which, all my life, had been really confusing for me. I feel macrobiotics is spiritual and to see an example of that, I look at how the body works as a whole and it's relationship with the order of the universe.
Thanks.
Soul and inspiration.
Bill
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