Hayao Kawai (河合隼雄 1928~2007) is a Japanese psychologist whom I respect. He often referred to our "soul." A lot of people may think it's a fishy topic as a subject of scholarship. According to him, actually, nobody knows whether soul exists or not.
So, it's a kind of assumption. But, making such assumption is really beneficial, he said. Even if there was life after life, we couldn't bring money there. We couldn't bring our any job titles there, either. However, we might be able to bring our soul there. Anyway, thinking about our own life with such perspective can make our life better, he said.
By the way, I sometimes read books about information technology or the Internet. This is really big issue in "this world." But, in my opinion, we can't use IT in the life after life (even if there was life after life).
Well, what about Dr. Kawai's opinion about IT? If my memory is correct, what he said is roughly given below:
"Nowadays, we can talk to people who live in the back of the earth with IT. It's convenient and I even encourage the development of IT. But, don't forget that we can't understand our friend's, spouse's or children's mind thoroughly, even if they sit next to us. It is the very feature of modern times."
I apologize for my poor memory and clumsy translation. But, if it makes sense, don't you think his opinion is much to the point? Some of his works are written in English. I recommend them to you.
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