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  1. Chris Hancock
    2018-09-22 @ 7:33 PM

    Hi Julia,

    I think you’ll appreciate this. Your website-your book page-literally just popped up on my laptop screen this morning. I was on Quora (trying not to read another article about Trump). I looked away for less than a moment, looked back, and there it was. I was like, “huh?”

    Now, I was already familiar with you, IONS, etc. But I did not know you had your own website, or a new book, and so, I’ve never visited you online before. How about that? Posted to Instagram about it shortly after, (with an image of your book cover) indicating I guess spirit would have me bump this to the top of my list! So, can’t wait to read it!

    Pax et Lux,

    Chris Hancock, LCSW

    • Julia Assante
      2019-01-24 @ 4:13 PM

      A great story Chris! Thanks for posting it. By now, I suppose you have read my book. I do hope you got something out of it. At the moment, I am writing a new one on Incarnation. What a slippery topic that really is if you go deep enough. All the best to you. Julia

  2. leonard balinski
    2019-01-03 @ 4:23 PM

    such notions also exist in hiduism

  3. V. Raghunadh
    2019-05-07 @ 1:24 PM

    Good old saints, Maharshis and philosophers of ancient India had already explained the existence of SOUL but they said that the awareness of presence of soul in our body can be better known only through YOGA consciousness.
    But the way you explained in a simple and logical way is Superb. Its very convincing. I liked it very much.

  4. Andrew Linnell
    2019-08-15 @ 4:57 PM

    Hellenistic philosophers and early Christians (e.g. St. Paul) described the human as being comprised of body, soul, and spirit (soma, psyche,and pneuma). Somewhere around the 4th or 5th century, the concept of spirit was lost and its properties became merged with soul. Somewhere in the 9th or 10th century, the spiritual concepts applied to the soul were lost. How today does one distinguish between soul and spirit? Does Quantum reveal only a duality? Might there be a trinity?

    • Julia Assante
      2019-08-16 @ 3:31 PM

      Nice question Andrew! Personally I don’t like the terms soul and spirit because they imply something you have or will become after death. So I just use the words consciousness and super-conscious. Interestingly there is no concept of the transcendent soul or spirit in the Bible; only in later books do we read of the resurrected body for the righteous.If it were not for Paul, given that the Apocalypse has not happened and never will, I wonder where Christianity would be now.

      • Andrew Linnell
        2019-08-16 @ 6:52 PM

        I like that Julia! If we examine the ‘known’ states of human consciousness we find (1) awake, (2) dreaming, (3) dreamless sleep, and (4) coma. These could be extended to the four elements from Greek philosophy of fire, air, water, and earth. Taking your suggestion of super-consciousness, this would apply then to something yet higher in the human being.

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