it wasn't your soul--I've learned that--that's the person's romanticized version of the animal and soul relationship that forms a human. In my recent poem, https://medium.com/weeds-wildflowers/a-poets-walk-among-weeds-and-wildflowers-f25bfdb75e7c, I include this discussion:
"My playing with pronouns by bouncing between singular and plural is intentional and neither related to gender identity nor non-binary gender nor fluidity twixt the poles. It simply reflects that as a human I consist of animal and soul. It reflects my embrace of the microcosm of duality within the macrocosm of nonduality. Of Duality and Nonduality A sonnet of both perspectives are true https://medium.com/p/e7c26181c2ed
Humans are a uniquely designed symbiotic species of highly evolved animals and souls. See White Feather’s https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/simultaneous-selves-8eca7d61801d. This is also the story of creation in Genesis when one looks back at the original texts before certain words were mistranslated to man and woman. See Graham Pemberton’s https://medium.com/@graham-pemberton/what-do-the-first-three-chapters-of-genesis-really-mean-chapter-2-the-creation-of-eve-7aa72143925b and https://medium.com/@graham-pemberton/what-do-the-first-three-chapters-of-genesis-really-mean-chapter-2-further-thoughts-b6797482fd5c.
Simplifying the analysis, Adam and Eve do not represent the creation of man and woman but rather the creation of a species consisting of animal and soul. I had started to think along these lines a couple of years ago when I had the realization that the terms divine masculine and divine feminine actually refer to ego and soul (https://medium.com/new-earth-consciousness/my-reaction-to-two-recent-pieces-on-the-concepts-of-divine-feminine-and-divine-masculine-1f9b899faa17) which I later refined to animus and soul in my https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-human-spirit-duality-e456c0729e99 in which I explained my view that we are neither humans seeking spiritual experiences nor spirits seeking human experiences — we are simultaneously and inseparably both."
