Psyche and Solace

What is Soul? Is Soul a singular reality: the Soul? Is Soul in the custody and stewardship of each person, as individuals? Is it a possession or a gift? Whether gift or possession, where does it come from when people are born, and where will it go when they die? Or does Soul exist at all, here, now, before birth, or after death? Is Soul mere anxious fantasy to soothe the existential dread of extinction?Or is Soul plural, part of a bigger whole? Is it a possession or a gift of the collective where it resides? And when and where did this Soul arrive in the collective, and when will it ever leave the collective? Is the Soul material or ethereal? Or does it repose, in some nondualistic fashion, between both the material and ethereal worlds, acting as a bonding agent of integration and cohesion? A vibrant, thrumming, organic, quantum entanglement?This book seeks to explore Soul and its centrality to the life pilgrimage by drawing on vibrant perspectives from science, spirituality, poesy, psychology, and art, especially cinema.