Soul is the immaterial essence that defines individuality and its humanity. The soul is considered the principle that gives life.
Alma comes from Latin anima and from Greek psychewhich means ‘human soul’, and, in that sense, soul is synonymous with psyche, ‘vital breath’ and self (the self), but it is also synonymous with individual, person or inhabitant.
According to theology (the study of God), the soul is a part of the individual that contains a divine portion and is believed to survive the death of the body.
Alma is also used to refer to:
the vital force of something, such as the soul of the project; the energy or passion with which something is done, such as, for example, scoring the goal with soul; oa person who drives and inspires something or someone, like, for example, Pablo was the soul of the group. Latinisms like Alma mater to refer to the University.
The soul is also used as a synonym for ghost or spirit, for example, when referring to a suffering soul indicates a soul without a body that wanders lost and without rest.
See also: Alma materSpirit and Psyche.
Soulmate
The expression soulmate is used to refer to the meeting, generally in a loving sense, of two people who have such a similar essence that they seem like twins, therefore they understand and act in a similar way.
See also Soul mate.
Soul in philosophy
The relationship between body and soul It has been one of the most recurring themes in history in spiritual and philosophical terms. The ancient Greeks, for example, considered the soul as the motor principle of the body and despite being independent, necessarily requires the substance of the body for the creation of an individual.
Christianity takes this idea of the soul from the ancient Greeks thanks to the diffusion of Saint Augustine who made the analogy of the “soul that rides the body.”
The ancient Greeks had other currents that defined the soul:
Epicureanism: they affirm that the soul is made of atoms like the rest of the body, and both soul and body are mortal. Platonists: believe in the immortality of the soul as an immaterial and incorporeal substance that is related to the gods but is linked to the world of changes and being. Aristotle: also believed in the immortality of the soul as a form inseparable from the body.
Soul in religions
The concept of soul varies with ideologies and with the passage of time. The concept of soul as a duality It is characteristic of Eastern religions.
The ancient egyptiansFor example, they believed in a dual soul where, on the one hand, there is ka or breath, which remains close to the body when it dies, and the bawhich is defined as the spirit that travels to the realm of the dead when separated from the body.
Chinese Taoism It also defines two types of souls that coexist in a body. polower and more sensitive ying soul that disappears with death, and huna yang soul that survives death and constitutes the beginning of ancestor worship.
See also: Dualism and Ying Yang.
Hinduism, On the other hand, he believes in a universal and eternal soul called atman, which means breath and soul; and an individual soul called jiva either jiva-atmanwhich despite belonging to atman He is enclosed in an earthly body from birth. Jiva passes into another existence determined by the karma when the body dies.
Buddhismon the other hand, states that the belief in the existence of an individual and eternal soul, which is part of a self universal and persistent is a mere illusion.
See also: Death.