{"id":9973,"date":"2016-02-26T00:58:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T00:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2016-02-26T03:13:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T03:13:45","slug":"lame-existe-t-elle-does-soul-exist-par-jacques-hadida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/lame-existe-t-elle-does-soul-exist-par-jacques-hadida\/","title":{"rendered":"L&rsquo;AME EXISTE -T-ELLE ?  DOES THE SOUL EXIST? Par Jacques Hadida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n\t\tL&#39;AME EXISTE -T-ELLE ? &nbsp;DOES THE SOUL EXIST? Par Jacques Hadida<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tL&#39;existence de l&#39;ame m&#39;a toujours intrigu&eacute;.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tJe suis persuad&eacute; que si nous demandons &agrave; quelqu&#39;un dans la rue s&#39;il croit ou non &agrave; l&#39;&acirc;me, chacun r&eacute;pondra par l&#39;affirmative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\tPourquoi?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tParce que tout le monde &agrave; v&eacute;cu avec cette id&eacute;e depuis le premier jour. Presque tout le monde &agrave; une foi. Et chacun y tient et l&#39;&acirc;me en fait partie. Alors pourquoi penser autrement?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJe serais port&eacute; &agrave; soulever un mot du Candide de Voltaire qui rejoint tellement ma pens&eacute;e .<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&acute;&acute;&acute; Savons-nous seulement si nous avons une &acirc;me?<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tSavons-nous si les animaux dont le sang fait la vie, comme il fait la notre, qui ont comme nous des volont&eacute;s, des app&eacute;tits, despassions, des id&eacute;es, de la m&eacute;moire, de l&rsquo;industrie ?<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tSavez-vous si ces &ecirc;tres aussi incompr&eacute;hensibles que nous, ont une &acirc;me comme on pr&eacute;tend que nous avons une?<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tJ&rsquo;avais cru jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; pr&eacute;sent qu&rsquo;il est dans la nature une force active dont nous tenons le don de vivre dans tout notre corps, de marcher par nos pieds, de prendre par nos mains, de voir par nos yeux, d&rsquo;entendre par nos oreilles,de sentir par nos nerfs, de penser par notre t&ecirc;te et que tout cela &eacute;tait ce que nous appelons l&#39;&acirc;me. Mot vague qui ne signifie au fond que le principe inconnu de nos facult&eacute;s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tEst-ce que quelqu&#39;un s&#39;imagine &agrave; quoi peut ressembler l&#39;&acirc;me? Je suis persuad&eacute; que personne n&#39;y pense.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCurieusement, si je devais remplacer l&#39;&acirc;me par une &eacute;toile, &agrave; mon avis cela aurait un peu plus de sens. Les milliards d&#39;&eacute;toiles dans le ciel peuvent chacune repr&eacute;senter un &ecirc;tre humain ici sur terre. Nous voyons les &eacute;toiles et nous voyons les &ecirc;tres humains mais nous ne voyons pas l&#39;&acirc;me.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCertaines &eacute;toiles sont plus brillantes que d&#39;autres et il en est de m&ecirc;me des &ecirc;tres vivants, alors que malheureusement, nous ne sommes pas tous &eacute;gaux, m&ecirc;me si on nous dit &agrave; notre naissance que tous les hommes sont &eacute;gaux. Je suis tent&eacute; d&#39;&ecirc;tre en d&eacute;saccord .<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\tUn b&eacute;b&eacute;, n&eacute; aujourd&#39;hui dans les jungles d&#39;Afrique ne peut &ecirc;tre l&#39;&eacute;gal de celui qui na&icirc;tra &agrave; Beverly Hills. Et voil&agrave; ou va l&#39;&eacute;galit&eacute;. Vous demanderez lequel de ces deux &agrave; une meilleure &acirc;me vu que vous croyez que tous les deux ont une &acirc;me.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tEt nous pouvons &nbsp;&ecirc;tre plus sp&eacute;cifiques en essayant de comprendre le r&ocirc;le de cette &acirc;me. Si chaque partie de notre corps &agrave; une fonction et que l&#39;&acirc;me fait partie de notre corps, alors qu&#39;elle est sa fonction?<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tLa r&eacute;ponse la plus courte serait que l&#39;&acirc;me n&#39;a rien de physique comme nos doigts ou notre cerveau. Elle est totalement spiirituelle, signifiant qu&#39;elle appartient &agrave; l&#39;esprit. &Eacute;ventuellement, je poserai la m&ecirc;me question quant &agrave; l&#39;esprit, mais cela est une autre histoire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tD&#39;une certaine fa&ccedil;on, l&#39;esprit et l&#39;&acirc;me peuvent bien &ecirc;tre la m&ecirc;me chose, tellement ils sont entrem&ecirc;l&eacute;s . Nous utilisons ces m&ecirc;mes mots dans nos conversations sans nous rendre compte qu&#39;ils peuvent avoir une explication diff&eacute;rente.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEt le corps dans tout cela? Et pourtant L&eacute;onard de Vinci &agrave; bien dit que le corps est l&#39;&oelig;uvre de l&#39;&acirc;me , que l&#39;&acirc;me forme elle m&ecirc;me son enveloppe. Elle la mart&egrave;le de dedans en dehors, comme l&#39;orf&egrave;vre pour produire ses reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEt qu&#39;arrive-t-il quand le corps meurt, l&#39;&acirc;me meurt-elle aussi?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJe crois que c&#39;est la question du jour alors qu&#39;&agrave; mon avis, les croyants pr&eacute;texteront que l&#39;&acirc;me ne meurt pas, qu&#39;elle repart au ciel, d&#39;ou elle est venue. Fort sympathique tout cela! Alors qu&#39;Epicure a dit que puisque l&#39;&acirc;me p&eacute;rit avec le corps, l&#39;homme peut trouver le bonheur sur terre &agrave; condition de s&#39;affranchir de ses passions.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEt pourtant, un proverbs indien vous dira que l&#39;&acirc;me est une richesse qui ne peut &ecirc;tre vol&eacute;e par des brigands, que m&ecirc;me les hommes au pouvoir ne peuvent vous la d&eacute;rober, qui restera avec vous m&ecirc;me apr&egrave;s votre mort, ne disparaissant jamais. M&ecirc;me si cela semblerait vrai, c&#39;est un peu tir&eacute; par les cheveux.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA me relire, je r&eacute;alise &nbsp;que je pourrais tant faire l&#39;&eacute;loge de l&#39;&acirc;me, tellement tant de bonnes choses ont &eacute;t&eacute; dites &agrave; son &eacute;gard. Je pense &agrave; &nbsp;Aristotle qui a dit que l&#39;&acirc;me &agrave; la forme du corps. Et si l&#39;&oelig;il &eacute;tait un animal, son &acirc;me serait la vue.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDans la m&ecirc;me veine, c&#39;est Wittgenstein qui a dit que le corps humain est la meilleure photo de l&#39;&acirc;me humaine. Je ne vois pas pourquoi il a du sp&eacute;cifier humaine. Tout cela alors que David Spangler &agrave; remarqu&eacute; que notre corps cr&eacute;e notre &acirc;me tout comme notre &acirc;me cr&eacute;e notre corps. Je finirai avec Avicenne qui &nbsp;a dit que l&#39;&acirc;me est analogue &agrave; la main. Celle ci est un instrument , pensez aux liseuses de mains, elle lissent votre &acirc;me.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDonc, qui dois-je &eacute;couter? Qui sera celui qui me convaincra que l&#39;&acirc;me &agrave; ses propres m&eacute;rites?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIl m&#39;appara&icirc;t que l&#39;&acirc;me est une bonne excuse pour tout ce qui arrive, bien ou mal. Que les gens sont fondamentalement na&iuml;fs pour facilement croire et suivre la tendance accept&eacute;e de tous et nous savons tous comment tout a commenc&eacute;. Les premiers leaders du monde sont ceux qui ont fortement recommand&eacute; de suivre la r&egrave;gle et de ne pas d&eacute;vier . Cependant cette r&eacute;gal &eacute;tait celle qu&#39;ils ont invent&eacute; &nbsp;pour mieux dominer leurs moutons . Navr&eacute;, je parle des religions.et Je ne souhaite &nbsp;gu&egrave;re parler de ce sujet car tout le monde saut combien il est d&eacute;licat.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJACQUES HADIDA<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;ENGLISH VERSION<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd here I am wishing to tackle a different subject<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe existence of the &nbsp;soul&nbsp;&nbsp;has always intrigued me.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tI am sure that&nbsp;if we ask anyone in the street whether he or she believe in the soul, everyone will answer positively.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhy?<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tBecause everyone lived with that idea since day one. Most everyone has a faith. And each one seems to hold to it and the soul is part of it. So why bother thinking otherwise ?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tI am tempted to raise a word from Voltaire&#39;s Candide that is so close to my thought<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#39;&#39;Do we only know if we have a soul?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tDo we know whether animals whose blood makes life, like it makes ours, who have like us wills, appetites, passions, ideas, memory, industry?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDo you know if these, just like us, incomprehensible beings, have a soul as we pretend to have one?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI had believed until today, that there is in nature, an active force of which we hold the gift of life in all our body, to walk&nbsp;with our legs, to take with our hands, to see with our eyes, to hear with our ears, to smell with our nerves, to think with our&nbsp;head and that all this was what we call soul. A vague word which deeply signifies the unknown principle of our faculties.&#39;&#39;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut does one wonder what the soul is like? I am sure no one even thinks about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tFunny, if I were to replace the soul by the star, it will make more sense to me. The billions of stars in the sky could all represent a being&nbsp;here on earth. We see the stars and we see the beings, but we do not see the soul.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSome stars are more shiny than others and so are people, but sadly we are not all equal, even if we are told at birth&nbsp;that all men are born equal, I will be tempted to disagree.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tA baby born today in the jungles of Africa cannot be the equal of one born in Beverly Hills. So there goes equality. You can ask which of these two has a better soul since you believe that both&nbsp;have a soul.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we can be more specific in trying to find out what is the role of the soul? If each part of our body has a function and if the soul is part of our body, then what is its function?<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell the easy answer will be that the soul has nothing physical like our fingers or our brain. It is totally spiritual, meaning it belongs in our mind. Eventually, I can ask the same question about our mind, but that will be another story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tIn a way, mind, soul and spirit can all be the same thing so intertwined they are. And we even sometimes use them in our speech not realizing there may be a difference<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd the body on all this? And yet, it is Leonardo da Vinci who &nbsp;said that the body is the work of the soul, that the soul forms itself its envelope, it hammers it inside out like the goldsmith to produce his reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd what happens when the body dies, does the soul die with it?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI believe it is the million dollar question, while I would think that believers will pretext that the soul never dies, that it goes back to heavens where it came from. Pretty nice, right? And it was Epicurus who &nbsp;said that since the soul perishes with the body, man can find happiness on earth, providing he liberates himself from his passions<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHowever, an Indian proverb will tell you that the soul is a fortune that cannot be stolen by bandits, that even men in power cannot take from you, that it will stay with you even after your death, never disappearing. Even if this sounds good, it is almost like pulling hairs.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen reading what i just wrote, i realized that I could so much praise the soul, as so many good things have been said about it. I think of Aristotle who said that the soul has the shape of the body. And if the eye was an animal, the soul would &nbsp;be its sight.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUsing the same thinking, Wittgenstein said:The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Whereas David Spangler remarked that&nbsp;Our body creates our soul, as much as our soul creates our body. Andi will finish with Avicenna who said that the soul is analogous to the hand. This one is an instrument, think of the palm readers, they read your soul<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSo, who do I listen to? Who is the one to convince me that the soul has its own merits?<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\tIt just seems to me that the soul is a good excuse for whatever happens, good or bad. That people are transcendentally naive to easily believe and follow what the accepted trend is, and we all know how it all started. The first leaders of people were those who strongly recommended &nbsp;to follow the rule and not deviate. However the rule was the one they invented to better dominate their sheep. Sorry but I speak of religions. And I wish not to speak of this subject since everyone knows how delicate it is.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tJACQUES HADIDA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&#39;AME EXISTE -T-ELLE ? &nbsp;DOES THE SOUL EXIST? Par Jacques Hadida &nbsp; &nbsp; L&#39;existence de l&#39;ame m&#39;a toujours intrigu&eacute;. Je suis persuad&eacute; que si nous demandons &agrave; quelqu&#39;un dans la rue s&#39;il croit ou non &agrave; l&#39;&acirc;me, chacun r&eacute;pondra par l&#39;affirmative. Pourquoi? 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