The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 51 of 254
The soul as the pearl of self
However, there is one possible candidate for the pearl of self that we have so far ignored: the soul. Many people believe that a human being, in addition to having a physical body, also has a non-physical part which does not depend on oxygen and food and which can persist long after our bodies have rotted into the earth. This soul is the true seat of the self: the body is merely a temporary vessel. Some version of this idea probably is and has been the most common belief around the world through human history. One