Soul:

Just so there is no misunderstanding here is what the word ‘soul’ refers to:

• [Richard]: ‘... what I mean when I refer to ‘me’ a soul is not just the religious/ spiritual concept but, more importantly, the feeling of being ‘me’ – which is a feeling of being in the heart rather than in the head – it is ‘me’ at the core of ‘my’ being ... which is ‘being’ itself (an inner ‘presence’).
• [Richard]: ‘... the word ‘soul’, as described on The Actual Freedom Trust web site as ‘me’ as soul, refers to ‘me’ at the core of ‘my’ being – which is ‘being’ itself – out of which passionate identity (the feeler) ‘I’ as ego (the thinker) arises. It is just not possible for an ego-self (no matter how weak) to exist in a flesh and blood body sans soul-self ... the extinction of ‘being’ itself is the extinction of identity in toto.
• [Richard]: ‘In my investigations I first started by examining thought, thoughts and thinking ... then very soon moved on to examining feelings (first the emotions and then the deeper feelings). When I dug down into these passions (into the core of ‘my’ being then into ‘being’ itself) I stumbled across the instincts ... and found the origin of not only the affective faculty but the psyche itself. Thus when I refer to ‘soul’ I am meaning ‘me’ at the core of ‘being’ ... which is the instinctual rudimentary animal self common to all sentient beings (which ‘original face’ is what gives rise to the feeling of ‘oneness’ with all other sentient beings). This is a very ancient genetic memory; being born of the biologically inherited instincts genetically encoded in the germ cells of the spermatozoa and the ova, ‘I’ am – genetically – umpteen tens of thousands of years old ... ‘my’ origins are lost in the mists of pre-history. ‘I’ am so anciently old that ‘I’ may well have always existed ... carried along on the reproductive cell-line, over countless millennia, from generation to generation. And ‘I’ am thus passed on into an inconceivably open-ended and hereditably transmissible future.
The elimination of ‘being’ is the extinction of the ‘soul’.

Soul:

Soul (Materialism):

• soul (n.): the spiritual part of a person, believed to exist after death. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary; 1999, 2nd. Ed.; CD-ROM Vers. 2.0).

Soul in the Bible

Spirit – This emotional/ passional/ intuitive self – aka ‘spirit’:

• As the word spiritual means “of, pertaining to, or affecting the spirit or soul” (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) the word ‘spirit’ is also used by those of either a secular or spiritual persuasion to denote the self-same ‘being’, at root, with differentiation again being a matter of a partiality and/or leaning connotation).

• spiritus (n.): a spirit⁽*⁾ or breathing. ~ (Collins English Dictionary)

Spiritus:

• mystical (adj.): 1. relating to or characteristic of mysticism (=belief in or experience of a reality surpassing normal human understanding or experience, esp. a reality perceived as essential to the nature of life; a system of contemplation and spirituality aimed at achieving direct intuitive experience of the divine); 2. (theology): having a divine or sacred significance which surpasses natural human apprehension; 3. (alternative belief systems): having occult or metaphysical significance, nature, or force; (adj. & n.): mystic; mystics; (adv.): mystically; (n.): mysticalness. [C14: Middle English mystik , from Latin mysticus , from Greek mustikos , derivative of mustēs , ‘mystery initiate’; related to muein , ‘to close the eyes’, ‘to initiate into sacred rites’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).