All Souls' Day

through, being compared to outer space, inner space, life force and the un-manifest. In Indian cosmology Akasha is a term for "aether" meaning "upper sky" or "space" even "infinite space". To the Hinduism and Buddhism beliefs Akasha is the base of all things in the material world which we live. Without the existence of space, nothing else could be because there has to be something that will act as a base. When I started my research on the word akasha, I did not realize it…

During the mid 1800’s in the town of Amherst in Massachusetts, lived a woman would one day be known as one of the greatest poets of America. This woman was Emily Dickinson born to a prominent family attended Amherst Academy. Dickinson grew up as a social and outgoing girl, but as she approached her thirties she became more reclusive and spent most of her time locked away in her room. During this time she spent in her room she was able to write many very short poems. However, most of her poetry…

“Did you know that our soul is composed of harmony?” (DaVinci 26). Those were words that were once spoken by the famed Leonardo DaVinci. In the very essence of mankind ingrained into every aspect of life, there is music. A song is the soul of a person expressed in a pure, simple form. Everyday thousands, if not millions of people are working in the hope that they will have a chance to turn their passion for music into a profession. One such profession is a songwriter. Every musical piece has a…

very clear give and take relationship between the spirits of nature and the physical world. Any action from man will warrant a consequence from nature. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the tale of the mariner learning that the natural world has a soul of sorts, and needs to be treated with respect. We will explain this by looking at different examples of this throughout the story. The first being the several times where the natural world seems to almost be a character itself, seen through its…

lives completely alone. In addition to this, humans who do find themselves in situations where they are truly alone go insane. This is most notable in prisoners who are put into solitary confinement. Being locked inside a room for twenty-three hours a day can really disturb a person’s mental health. They lose the ability to think about anything for an extended length of time, as well as having panic attacks and extreme paranoia. Humans are not meant to be alone, and therefore, this desire for…

human kind. Despite all this, Socrates’s ultimately succumbed to the law which supposedly existed to protect especially the best human king has to…

faith, Augustine agrees with Plato that life 's purpose is for acquiring knowledge. Augustine adopts Plato 's concept that there are things learned through the senses and things learned through the soul. Augustine did not, however, agree with Plato about the way humans perceive things through their soul. Thus, he refurbished into his own words Plato 's idea that humans live multiple lives…

the help of the student. The old man wants to see the colonel to collect on his debts, which he does by humiliating the colonel and stripping him of his title. The student learns that the colonel’s daughter is also a troubled soul, and that the cook tortures her, for all her wrong doings. The student tells the colonels daughter to get rid of the cook, but she is unable to because the cook appears to be some sort of bad spirit that will not leave the daughter until her…

Self-Awareness in Christianity Developing a strong sense of the self-entertains the possibility of having a stronger relationship with G-d and everything that’s been experienced during one’s life. Embracing the perfections and flaws that come with expressing the vulnerability of being human while practicing Christianity illustrates the significance of fullness. Knowing the self as a whole deepens the relationship with Christ and one’s self through happiness and reflection with a continuous theme…

or nature of which is to think and that for its existence there is no need of any place, nor does it depend on any material thing; so that this “me,” that is to say, the soul by which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from the body, and is even more easy to know than is the latter; and even if the body did not exist, the soul would not cease to be what it is.” (Velasquez, 83). Descartes point is that we can think of the self without a body but we can not think of the self without thinking. By…