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Re: losing your soul
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Post # 11
To answer your question I will also have an explanation why I think it this way.
Well if you lose your entire soul you will in fact be dead but it is possible to lose parts of your soul and live. This is because I think the soul is just the electrons and neurons in your brain. This is just a theory of mine so far but it would explain many things and also for what is already known to be possible.
Just to say this is a very simplified version of my theory for the sake of not writing many paragraphs.
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Re: losing your soul
By: / Beginner
Post # 12
personally I believe that you can't loose your soul until you die... or maybe unless you're attacked by some very powerful supernatural being, but I don't know that that's likely to happen.

I believe that your soul is YOU, and therefor you cannot lose it.
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Re: losing your soul
By: / Novice
Post # 13
I need to look into this, as car accident took things; memories, learned things, etc,; away from me. hmm
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Re: losing your soul
By: / Beginner
Post # 14
A car accident probably took these things away because it caused a concussion or some type of brain damage. Or maybe it was so traumatic emotionally that your mind tried to protect itself by blocking it out of your mind, and it coincidentally cut out other parts of your memory.

Of course there are some things we just forget naturally.
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Re: losing your soul
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Post # 15
We have different types of memory. Coming out of Shamanism and talking modern day science a bit, memory loss is different.

At first, I would like to point that we have several types of memory: Immediate memory, short-term memory and long-term memory.

Immediate memory is when, for example, you hear someone telling you to dial a number and then hand the phone to her. At that time you know what the number is, but after some minutes, you may forget the number.

Short-term memory is when you remember something briefly but more than just some minutes. Usually when we memorize something, we store the information in the short-term memory, which will be forgotten in less than two weeks or in the primary days. But if that time passes by and we review what we've memorized again, it will go into the long-term section.

Losing memory is rapid at first but slows down as the time goes by. I've heard many people claiming they'd speak of all the events of the past 10 years in great details, but remembering 10 minutes ago would be difficult. Such people have a strong long-term memory and a weak short-term memory.

After a car accident, a kind of swelling happens in the head; which blocks the information from getting to different parts of the brain. The information is there, but something (and sometimes the brain itself, after a traumatic problem) blocks it from getting to us.

We have several chemicals in our brain that balance our feelings, both enjoyable and bad feelings. After a time, you remember the event which made you happy/upset, but you don't feel as happy/upset as you were then. This is how brain balances our feelings. Same goes with memories. When our brain goes through a traumatic issue, the balancer (or that's what I call it) in the brain blocks that memory in order to lessen the impact of emotional problem. In the meanwhile, some older memories can be blocked too. At this moment, brain tries lessening the traumatic feeling and then, as the time passes by, one will gain his/her memory again.

The point is, it's not erased. It's still there but unable to be reached.

Now going back to the Shamanic belief, a shaman tries helping the brain with his/her healing energy to lessen the emotional impact, so that the memory or the "lost piece of soul" can be brought back.
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