Psyche? Soul?

What is psyche? What is the soul?

 

[In my first novel, the “consciousness” of two dreadful creatures spawned by ET cross-breeding experiments escape the planet. They take refuge on another, far-away planet. This planet has rudimentary cellular life. They park themselves there and become “attractor basins,” seeking to form this new-found ooze into their own image over eons into the future. Thus, in effect these etheric life forms set themselves up as “gods of evolution.” Science fiction as brought to you by 23 Skiddoo: Way Back Beyond Across the Stars (2016). This raises complex questions!]  

 

Could the soul be the unique individual’s grasping of a world-soul called psyche, which tries to hold onto a stream of metaphorical image/sound-messages, this “global network of DNA-based life.”?

 

What if all of the biospheric energies of DNA-based life resonate in a diaphanous jumble of morphogenic (See generally, Rupert Sheldrake) frequencies—and the non-DNA physiosphere is the basin attractor that allows these infinitely interweaved fields to localize on a planet, accessible in time and space to life forms at once embedded in and capable of noospheric interpretation of its multivalent manifestations? Can we call these morphogenic resonances the “spirits” or “holographic inner essences” or “Platonic forms” of living entities?

 

Are we being anthro-snobs by allowing that only humans possess “souls,” and relegating all life forms of lesser neurological development to one, separate designation of possessing “spirit”?

 

Are there and should there be developmental levels within Spirit, that all-embracing synonym for the collective repository of psyches or the world-souls of eternally infinite universes? And when we exit time and space by accessing the achronon (Jean Gebser,The Ever-Present Origin, Ohio University Press: Athens, Ohio, Eng. trans. 1985, orig. pub. 1949 and 1953, pp. 284, 292) can these world-souls be experienced without their being bound to their phenomenal, substrate material?

 

Indeed, how essential is material existence to the realm of the psyche? Is it an absolute precursor for the birthing of psychic elementals? Do these psychic elementals then continue on in the universal web of psyche after they cease to be hosted by DNA-life?

 

Does inanimate matter or non-DNA life host such psychic elementals? Or do the forms “exist” autonomously, hosting DNA-life for a while as a kind of flowering and then re-release themselves back into the psyche?

 

To what extent do humans participate with psychic elementals in a symbiotic synthesis, bestowing meaning and hence a categorical existence to them as parasitical to human knowing? Or is it the other way around?

 

Is it possible that humans leech onto bits of psyche, the world-soul playing host while we vampirize it to support whatever twisted sense we can, given the limitations of our meaning-making abilities? Are those abilities “caged” and thereby “pre-determined” by our “phylogenic passing through” so that our ontogenetic reality is both produced by and producing magico-mythic images to feed those very meaning-making capabilities?

Maybe "psyche" is just one essence of God and our "souls" are drops from that essence.