Interesting thread!

One thing is certain - "soul" is something that resists all the efforts of the mind to prove or disprove it. The great thinkers - like Socrates and Plato - have been trying for millenium and it hasn't worked yet. It just produces endless, brain-twisting arguments that imo are a total waste of time.

Similiarly, "soul" is not something that can be proven or disproven scientifically. Every time a scientist comes close, the 'evidence' is discredited by attitudes like Very Skeptical S. in Seattle, above - "A PhD in physics, after all, is not an inoculation against foolishness".

Well, Galileo and Christopher Columbus were considered pretty foolish, crazy - even 'heretical' - in their day too.

So I can only rely on personal experience. And for what it's worth, my experiences have 'proven' - but only to me of course - that Dr. Wayne Dyer is exactly right when he says "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience".

If people really want to know the truth, they need only let go of all pre-judgements, keep their minds open and find a personal 'method of investigation' that WORKS, for them. It comes from the heart, not the mind, though - because there is a big difference between 'knowledge' (the 'mind-stuff') and wisdom (the 'heart-stuff' gained through experience AND knowledge). And I suspect that will be true for 'clones' as well!

Thanks for the chance to share my thoughts - daylia