It's beautiful man.

One of the most important skills I ever learned was how to simply be present for someone who is suffering. To listen and bear witness rather than try to "help" them.

I just had that conversation today. Some words are very religious sounding and need to be replaced. Spirituality is another one.

What IS a soul;
A) in religio-speak, an invisible, imaginary entity constructed by religious ideology and constrained within a living being that only finds release with corporeal death,
b) something that neither science nor medicine has ever detected,
c) a way/method of Authorities to AVOID saying the numbers of ACTUAL lives lost in any disaster, i.e. a cop-out,
Personally speaking, I prefer to think that we all have an individual, internal 'persona' that begins to develop from short after birth that is driven by minute electrical impulses with in our brain and governed by the surrounding, etc, that we grow among and, like our frail, corporeal bodies, it too dissipates after death.
Ergo, there is NO soul.

Interesting but I'd need commentary.

Works for me.

If that's all our souls wanted, we would be fine. But add ego to the mix and helping the suffering soul gets complicated.

Thank you