Soul vs Ego.
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego, and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
― Carl Jung, Visions : Notes of the seminar given in 1930–1934
Questions always lead us to one of several different answers, answers that have already existed in various ways, before the questions were ever to be formulated.
In fact, you can look at any object in nature and see it as a series of questions and answers.
Through this, we’ve discovered that everyone’s body — brain and heart — are organic, following sets of laws that govern their structure within reality.
Souls though, are capable of projecting outside of their particular space and time bubble, outside of their constituent ego.
The soul is a dysteleology in that it’s always been functional the way it was in its ancestral form.
In this way, souls provide foundation for the phenomenal omniverse, allowing everything that ever exists to make sense.
Unlike souls, egos adapt through emergent characteristics of external nature — to things like culture and tradition.
Whatever we experience, our egos manifest as metaphors for how to think and encounter meaning in subjective reality. This bridges dimensions, allowing us to imagine the whole of the universe and each of its connections within a single point.
“I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
Though the soul can’t possibly escape physical form, the two realms are not necessarily materially connected, merely separated by several sets of concepts; concepts that describe the way things appear.
So, the soul can become an objectification of the ego, and vice versa — and both are largely an extension of mental processes, which are true reality.