Soul or souless?

[Rhizomorph13]

In olden times people used to believe that their inner monologue was god/gods talking to them,( you can see this all the time in Homers ilead).
Later opinion altered to make the inner monologue out as an entity that was you but controlling you, a soul sepperate from the body.
If you have the concept of a sepperate entity that is still in some way you, then it can go off and have fun times without you.
My wife believes this and used to tell me of the spiritual expeditions she used to have when she was asleep(sigh)

Well put but you missed one step between gods talking to people and our magic astral double...

The homunculus. It is one of my favorite silly inventions of mankind right up there with ether to explain gravity. The homunculus was supposed to be a little person that lived in our heads that caused life, another part of homunculus ideas was that they lived in sperm to transmit the person into the body. They are very similar in concept to a soul but they are defined as physical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus

To me it brings to mind our early concepts of gods that lived up on the mountains. When we climbed the mountains the gods moved to the sky, stars and some migrated to the seas where great Cthulu lies dreaming. Now we are pretty certain there are no gods in the sky, stars, or the sea much as we know that gravity is not caused by some ether pushing down that necessitates a super-ether to push the ether. Why isn't the brain enough to explain where thoughts come from? Is there a super soul that moves the soul to motivate the brain to send impulses to our muscles?

Rhizo