I have written elsewhere about the fact that Soul and Spirit are two different entities. Other authors have discussed it and it is mentioned in the Judeo-Christian Bible. Attention has to be paid to differences in terminology. For me, what I know as the Overself, or Ba, or Soul, is more often referred to as Spirit by other thinkers. Likewise, what I call the Spirit (Ka) that inhabits and surrounds the physical body, is frequently called Soul by others. The reader should choose whatever term suits them best and, once settled on, that term should be used consistently.

Researcher and author Dr Samuel Sagan discerns four parts: the physical body, then the Etheric, the Astral and ultimately what he calls variously the Self, Higher Ego or Spirit – which I’d call Soul or the Overself. The issue that strikes me in his book Entity Possession (1994, Destiny Books) is that after death, the Astral body can fragment into all the different subpersonalities that belong to a person, and then scatter through the Astral realm. He seems to be saying, as I believe, that it is important for us to end the fragmentation, while we are still alive, by way of bringing the Light of the Overself into our Spiritual or Astral body. Solomon prompted us, “Ere the Golden Bowl be broken…”
   
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