Absolutely !
"What is the use of winning the world if it's to lose your soul" ... for those who have one, of course!
Then there are two philosophical currents that take precedence:
- Those who think that man is born with a soul.
- Those who think that he does not have one but that he wins as his life progresses.
I think there is a third one:
The man is born with a soul but she is virgin of all emotion.
the soul is what would look like a flight recorder, a black box.
At birth it is blank of any information, like a hard disk just formatted.
As his life progresses, a living being performs actions
that he perceives as good or bad.
The backlash of these actions triggers or not an emotional response of the soul because it vibrates like a rope.
At the end of its life, depending on what it has done, the soul of the living being "weighs itself" and decides, according to its positive or negative balance, to start a cycle of reincarnation again or to go to the next higher stage, towards a more complex being, a bit like a computer program created on an old computer and which needs another more powerful computer to run perfectly.
This is what the ancient Egyptians called the soul weighing (they had still put their finger on something important), and they thought it was the Anubis God who did it.
Of course, there are humans whose souls are desperately devoid of all emotion, in whom they are condemned to repeat indefinitely the cycle of reincarnations ad vitam eternam, because they will be unable to evolve.
It is the emotions that determine whether we are capable of compassion or not.
Unfortunately, most humans are unable to do this today, we are heading straight for barbarism.
We are really just barbarians with a medium level of technology.
A true evolved civilization can be recognized above all by what I call "the link", ie a collective consciousness turned towards the same goal and not a mass of individuals incapable of communicating among themselves full of contradictions and having for only goal that their small personal profit in the short term, as it seems that is the rule nowadays ...
As the Apocalypse says: "And they will weep, their gold, their myre, and their gems, not being able to sell them any more because no one will want them any more ..."
This is not exactly the exact phrase, but it does sum up the fact that we are exactly at that moment of the Apocalypse.
Oh yes, we're right in the middle, more exactly half of it, just when people are starting to lose interest in the consumer society. What does this quote refer to?