Thoughts on ‘I’ (soul-body interface)

[ UPDATE: I’m wrong here and this whole post is now without merit, but I still keep this document up to show the trail that lead my present day findings ]

 
When I say ‘I’, it is not the mind that is me… it is the consciousness that is me. Both my mind and my body are tools that ‘I’ use to ‘do’ what I want to. People usually think that it is their brain that is them. Wrong. It feels like our brain is where ‘we’ are, only because:

1. our eyes, ears etc are all situated right next to our brain and 
2. because our thoughts originate at the brain. I am not at the brain, nor at the heart… I am throughout my body, in each and every cell, using my brain to generate and process thoughts, using my heart to keep my brain and the rest of my body alive, using my senses to be aware of my surroundings and using my limbs to keep surviving. 

In short, I am not my body. I am not a mass of elements that formed chemicals which in turn form my body. I am that which controlled those elements and chemicals, in the first place, to form my body. This is why all those theories where they vomit the logic that, “if earth has life then in the vast ocean that’s the Universe, there WILL be another planet that has similar atmosphere and similar elements, and therefore has life just like ours”, are wrong. It is never about elements… I’m not made of atoms, my body is. Why did I choose this planet? Is it possible that just like how we all have chosen earth to build and sustain our bodies, there are other lives who have decided to choose another planet to build and sustain their bodies? I can’t reach the answers, just like how I don’t know how I know to heal my body when there’s a cut or scratch. The knowledge, the information is in me… I  just can’t reach it… yet. 
So what happens when I die? I don’t. It’s my body that dies. I believe that after my body dies, I just move on to a new body, although how I choose `which` body, of `what` animal, and `where` on this planet, is, as before, information I can’t reach yet. I believe I actually don’t have choice in this matter. You see, the air that our bodies breathe out, the air that is around us, is, well, shapeless… indistinguishable from the rest of the atmosphere. But that same air can form into distinguishable structures of tremendous sizes… the typhoons and tornadoes. How does shapeless air decide to give itself `shape` and `power`, and become a tornado off the coast of Japan? It doesn’t. The air doesn’t have choice here. The air CANNOT choose either destination or its final form… it has no choice over `where` it turns into `what`. All of this is governed by the TOTALITY of ALL air on this planet. If a tornado forms in the Indian ocean it is caused not by choice but forced into it by the ebb and flow of the REST of the air on this planet. I’m the same way. Today I’m like the air in the tornado having the shape of a human, and maybe, like the air in the tornado, forced into forming a human body for myself, by the rest of the life on this planet… humans, animals and plants included. So just like how the tornado has a ‘life span’ and dies off, yet the air that formed the tornado in the first place STILL lives and moves on elsewhere(to form a gust, or a typhoon or whatever form it is forced into), after my body dies I could move on to form a lizard or a snake or a fly. To sum up the analogy in a single line: Air, which is immortal, forms `mortal` phenomena like tornadoes, gusts, storms, typhoons etc just like how I, who am Immortal, form `mortal` incarnations like humans, lizards, snakes etc; and just like how the immortal air moves from one `mortal` phenomena to the next (say after the tornado dies, the air moves onto form many gusts of wind), I move from one `mortal` form to another, say human to a horse. I don’t have choice in what I form into after my human form dies off. My next form is decided by the TOTALITY of ALL life on this planet. The same process happens for all life. Each of us moves from our mortal human forms to our next mortal form depending on the state of the rest of the life on this planet. The point of realizing this:

1. Find a way to transfer memories and information I’ve stored in my brain until I die, with me, to my new body. In other words,  immortality. We already are immortal, it’s just our bodies that die.  But, by making our memories immortal as well, we actually bring `usefulness` to our immortality. All our relationships and experiences are preserved, meaning there is no re-learning to do. Meaning we can carry on from where we left off, with a slight delay of 12 or 13 years while we wait for our body to grow up. The people who worked with the previous body will also remember us, when we were in or past bodies, after their body dies and they form a new body. This means the whole society keeps progressing without any breaks that are caused by death and the loss of memory that it brings with it. For example, lets take a company with 5 employees today. As each one dies, due to their memory being transferred with them to the new body, they wait in their new bodies until they are able enough and come back to the same company. Their, body changes, their age changes, they die, but the people continue to be who they are. Take this and apply to all life on earth and you can see the usefulness of immortality(of memory, not of the body which will always be mortal). Caveats: there is no guarantee that the next body we’ll be forced to form, will be human. I could end up forming a snake after my current body dies. Same goes for the 5 employees, in which case things get complex.  
2. Find out if ‘I’ can merge with someone else to form something that is different from either of us. 1 + 1 = 2 math might not apply here as we are not made of matter. So me merging with someone else might not mean there are two of us or that I have somehow gotten `bigger` or that there is `more` of me. I don’t know what the end result would be but if all life merged, I believe we will get the `entity` responsible for things like ‘fate’, `fortune` and `luck`.
3. *attached image and info in the footnote*

Updates/Edits:

1. 11:05 p.m Tuesday, December 22, 2009 (IST) → spelling error corrections, minor re-wording. The message of the post, however, has not been changed in anyway.
2. *continue updating here what edits are made to this doc and when*
3. 6:48 a.m Saturday, June 4, 2011 (IST) - Over the last few years I’ve come to the realization that ‘soul’ does not actually exist. Do magnets have souls? No. Same with humans. We are complicated magnets. Plan to link to a separate post on the topic.