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otay, but you know this being supposedly doesn't think or feel right, it's just there.

There are some Jewish scholars or mystics who postulated something similar to reincarnation. However, rather than one soul being reincarnated multiple times in entirety, the prevailing thought seems to be that each soul is 'separated' from a great mass of Soul, lives its life, and then is reabsorbed into the great Soul after death.

The way I understand this, it's a little like water. You've got all this water up in the sky in the form of clouds. Some of it rains down and forms rivers, oceans, lakes, puddles, snow, fog, ice, glaciers, and so on. Some of it gets dirtied by soil, animal waste, industrial pollutants, and so on. Some of it (often the same bits) get purified either by nature or by human-made filtration systems. Eventually, though, it's almost all spent a little time frozen, a little time in liquid state, and a little time in a gaseous state. It's also almost all a little time dirty and a little time clean. It's almost all been a part of something great like a lake or ocean, or a part of something small like free-floating mist, fog, or tiny raindrops soaked up by a hungry earth. Eventually it all makes its way into the sky again, forming new clouds... and eventually becomes a raindrop again and comes back to earth to begin the cycle anew.

I like that idea. It means that each soul-drop (raindrop) was once a part of something big, once a part of something small; it was once responsible for harming others, but was also once responsible for helping others. It was once poor and once rich, once intelligent and once feeble, once noble and once ignoble, once wise and once foolish. Once, a part of each of our souls may have been a horrible person, like (G*D forbid) Hitler. But also, at one time, a small part of each of our souls may have belonged to someone great like Moses or Ghandi or Mother Theresa.

So, if you believe all of that, then it stands to reason that every thought you encourage yourself to have, and every action you allow yourself to perform, has some effect on the total ur-Soul of the world. Every sinister, cruel, or harmful thing you do ultimately pollutes not just yourself but the total Soul, true. But also, every kind, compassionate, thoughtful, loving, respectful, or noble action that you take will ultimately purify not just your own soul and life, but the ultimate Soul from which future generations will be built.

I hope that's true. I also fear it.

I disagree, I think that intuition and personal experiences are very important in belief.I mean as far as like the hindu beliefs....and I believe Buddhist, although in Hindu the follwers demand personal gods so there are three representations of Brahman there's Shiva, Vishnu, and Braham(or something like that).