Post # XV - COMPLEMENTARY SOUL and SPIRIT: THE HETEROSEXUAL FOUNDATION OF REALITY

Preamble:

Commonly, the terms 'soul' and 'spirit' are used somewhat synonymously and interchangeably. Yet, etymologically, dictionaries tend to identify 'soul' with animating principle; whereas 'spirit' is a kind of life force or meaning/context.

One refers to the "spirit of Christmas" or "the soul of Rock and Roll"- not the converse.

Here, this blogger will utilize the term 'soul' as, indeed, representing animating principle and 'spirit' as indicating meaning or context.

Thus soul acts, defines, informs, animates/energizes, offers novelty and constitutes a part (ie, participates); whereas spirit is/exists, inspires, transforms, interprets, provides resources and truth and constitutes whole(ness).

BIOLOGICALLY-PHYSICALLY-MICROSCOPICALLY:

After the male spermatocyte approaches the female ovum and (after attaching itself to the latter) injects its chromosomes therein, his/this genetic information informs, effects and animates the ovum while the latter contributes her/its own genetic information and transforms, affects and provides context for the male element). [See, also, Post #V.]

The female element provides 'spirit' in the form of context and meaning for the animating 'soul' genetic information of the male element - as well as contributing her own genetic information for the/her joint procreative project.

IN TERMS OF HETEROSEXUAL PROCREATIVE PSYCHOSOCIAL ENDEAVOUR:

A male's words (and acts) addressed to a female inform, effect, and animate her while her own ideas, suggestions and emotional resources provide context and meaning for him - and, thereby, she conceives, gestates and 'gives birth to' a new actual reality that is generated by the combination of his soul (ie, what he has said/acted) and her spirit (ie, what she is).

This blogger submits that neither a man nor a woman has a soul. Rather a male composes soul that he then addresses to a woman.

After a man dies, his brain, voice and body are no longer functional - so he is unable to compose or communicate new soul. What a man has written, memories of what he has said/done and off-spring that he has sired remain.

A woman does not have spirit: she is spirit.

After a woman's body dies, it is not clear to this blogger that her incarnation of spirit, truth and wholeness stops functioning in the way that a man's compositional ability does.