[He's good at that particular game and he totally understands if you want to play it, Greed.]
I ask that you bear in mind that I work primarily with energy, as my alchemy goes - I can manipulate it as I see fit, and I'm rather acquainted with its properties overall. As an alchemist, the general idea of "one is all, all is one" is also important to me.
I think that the soul is likely gone once you die - returned to the world, most likely, because where I'm from there's no way to resurrect the dead beyond a certain point. My assumption, then, is that the soul no longer exists as a conscious entity - it no longer has a sense of individual self to be called back. The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that it was likely returned to the world - brought back to God's domain, in other words.
So the soul has no consciousness anymore, and yet the energy that powers the body has to go somewhere, as does whatever the soul was composed of. I like to think that whatever energy was returned to God will eventually be returned to the world - not as it was, there's almost no chance of whatever energy that composed your own personal soul will rejoin in a way that will recreate you - but as parts of someone else entirely.
That's always been my personal understanding of "one is all, all is one," anyway. Energy is eternal and cannot be destroyed; why wouldn't it give life to other things that require it to function?
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I ask that you bear in mind that I work primarily with energy, as my alchemy goes - I can manipulate it as I see fit, and I'm rather acquainted with its properties overall. As an alchemist, the general idea of "one is all, all is one" is also important to me.
I think that the soul is likely gone once you die - returned to the world, most likely, because where I'm from there's no way to resurrect the dead beyond a certain point. My assumption, then, is that the soul no longer exists as a conscious entity - it no longer has a sense of individual self to be called back. The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that it was likely returned to the world - brought back to God's domain, in other words.
So the soul has no consciousness anymore, and yet the energy that powers the body has to go somewhere, as does whatever the soul was composed of. I like to think that whatever energy was returned to God will eventually be returned to the world - not as it was, there's almost no chance of whatever energy that composed your own personal soul will rejoin in a way that will recreate you - but as parts of someone else entirely.
That's always been my personal understanding of "one is all, all is one," anyway. Energy is eternal and cannot be destroyed; why wouldn't it give life to other things that require it to function?