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In a Time of Crisis, the Concept of the Soul Returns

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

Opinion Named sources Context piece
  • The article examines a renewed interest in the concept of the soul among scientists, artists and people facing broad social, technological and geopolitical upheaval.
  • It presents the soul as a possible informational or vibrational field, while emphasizing that the revival need not depend on religious dogma.
  • The discussion draws on Leandro Pinkler’s book and his work on Greek cultural traditions and philosophical and spiritual currents.

As the world’s familiar sources of security begin to fracture, the idea of the soul is returning, the article argues, even among people who describe themselves as agnostic. Scientists from different fields, including biologist Bruce Lipton, physician Karl Pribram and physicists Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose, have used the concept to refer to a vibrational field that carries information beyond physical evidence. For artists, that frequency appears as a presence recognized in their work or in the subjective impulse to create.

The revival may reflect the collapse of assumptions that once offered stability. Technology increasingly operates without us, while the things expected to replace older forms of security remain unclear. The article also points to what psychiatrist Stan Grof called “spiritual emergencies,” suggesting that traditional psychotherapies may lack interpretive frameworks for experiences understood as messages from the self, or from something beyond the self.

There is something more than what you can see, touch, measure or verify; what you are perceiving within yourself now is also real.

· Inner voice described in the articleThe article uses the line to express the kind of inward spiritual perception it says is re-emerging during the current crisis.

Human beings, distinguished by what the article calls “consciousness of our consciousness,” are presented as moving beyond exclusive reliance on rational logic. This re-emergence of the soul is not described as belonging to a single dogma, ideology or religious monopoly. Instead, a now-common formulation says that we are not bodies that possess souls, but physical manifestations of an immaterial frequency carrying intentions.

For Leandro Pinkler, the question is not simply whether God exists. It is how people relate to the fact of being here, in a body and in this reality, and to the possibility of being more than they can explain about themselves. Pinkler’s recent book, Al encuentro del alma (en tiempos de destrucción), explores the soul across different traditions. He taught Greek cultural traditions at the University of Buenos Aires for more than three decades and researched links among philosophical and spiritual currents at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council.

We are not a body that has a soul, but the physical manifestation, the body, of an immaterial frequency charged with intentions, the soul.

· Common formulation cited in the articleThe formulation summarizes the non-dogmatic view of the soul discussed in the article.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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