Matty1

Correction: Reality is imagining "reality".

Dreams. Life supposedly works in the same way. Everything you see around is actually from within you and yada yada. I honestly have no idea what kind of experience would solidify the understanding of solipsism for you. It's not that there are no other conscious beings other than yourself, it's more that what you're experiencing isn't "consciousness"at all and is more the absolute foundation of reality. Solipsism implies only your mind is real, but there is no such thing as mind. There is only a single form of substance (reality) from which everything is built. God is an experience (or rather, THE experience. There are no others), and it can dress up however it wants. There's nothing stopping it from disguising itself as "multiple" consciousnesses at once like in a split screen game. Or like the consciousness of an entire civilization at once (like in an RTS game). It's just right now it's pretending to be a human's consciousness.

If God is infinitely powerful, surely he has the power to automate managing all those billions of galaxies, right? Otherwise, he'd probably be aware of the billions of galaxies as you are aware of your own name. Don't overthink it.

Before I get into the answer, let me clear up some misconceptions you might’ve absorbed through pop-culture. The soul as this ethereal transparent thing attached to your body that leaves your body when it dies is bollocks. Media depicts the soul in such a way as a story-telling device, and is not meant to be taken literally. This is a materialist depiction that still doesn’t answer how an immaterial mind can somehow emerge out of a physical substance. This depiction of the soul is just a substitute for the brain (a vessel that carries what makes you you) and is wholly incorrect. Quite simply, the soul is your immaterial immortal self; again, when I say immaterial, I’m not talking about this “transparent substance” like you see in the movies. That’s still material. By immaterial I mean the things you experience every day but overlay it with thoughts that it’s “all perception” and is “happening somewhere in the brain”. Also rubbish. Everything you see, everything you hear, etc is part of your soul. There are no soul(s) (plural), there is only THE soul, or the World Soul as some philosophers call it. This soul can’t go anywhere because it doesn’t exist in space-time, instead space-time is contained WITHIN the soul. So with that in place, let’s answer these questions one by one: Q: “Is the soul real?” A: Yes, with the caveat that ONLY the soul is real. Everything else are just ideas. Q: “How is it different from the life force within us? “ A: Life force/chi/energy exists within the astral-physical world and is more like one of God’s constructs/limitations that allow reality to run the way it is without breaking. Completely different concept. You learn more about it by delving into magick and energy work and other related practices. Q: “Is it possible to experience it?” A: You’re already experiencing it right now. Q: “Where does it go when the body dies?” A: Again, the soul is not attached to the body. It can’t go anywhere because it is reality itself. This universe is within the soul, not the other way around. Q: “Does it reincarnate? A: Possibly. But I’d let go of traditional religious dogma that describe the rules of this reincarnation. I’d also let go of the idea that you’d just reincarnate in the same universe with the same laws just perceiving life through a different body. God is infinite and so is his creativity. It might not even make sense for him to experience the same “universe” twice.