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This is the final episode in the history series on The Soul. We started in episode one… 70,000 years ago, then moved forward, through the human journey. We saw how The Soul has always been a part of our history. And how -long before the development of written language- we always knew there was more to us than the body. We saw people fight to preserve the right to connect to the deepest part of themselves. And we saw what well-known philosophers had to say about it. 

In this episode we’ll hear from some of the greatest minds of the past 100 years -and hear what they had to say about The Soul. 


SHOW NOTES:

Quotes:

"This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away (like dust), and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die." – Kierkegaard

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” - Jung 

“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.” -Jung

"So, I had to speak to my Soul as to something remote and unknown that does not exist by me but by whom I exist.” -Jung

“It is very difficult to elucidate this [cosmic religious] feeling to anyone who is entirely without it. . . The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it ... In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it." -Einstein

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." - Max Planck

“… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”  ― Planck

“Of course it is quite obvious that we're all going to die, and this is the sad finale of everything, but never-the-less, there is something in us that doesn't believe it, apparently, but this is merely a fact, a psychological fact.” -Jung

“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedic tradition] express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as “I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.” - Erwin Schrödinger

"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.” – Schrödinger

"I am endeavoring to see God through service to humanity, for I know that God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone" -Gandhi

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