Just as in developing film or paper specific actions and materials are used, developing your soul, if you have one or the precursor to the soul, then action and material will be used.

In case you are not sure of what a soul is or how to consider such an option then the clue is that the precursor is desire, just as it in developing anything, you must have an idea of what you would like, given the work you are about to undertake.

Feelings are critical but they are not the tools, quite the reverse. Feelings are the end product of biological output stemming from the mind and it's personality. relatively set. In doing so active thinking can conflict with other brain. The tools for developing the soul are the mind and logic. It may seem cold and harsh to use these as someone may say feelings are important and I agree.

The logic is the tool that can shape some aspects of the mind, whilst others are functions like the autonomous systems that encourage procreation and the bodies consumer activities to survive and enjoy.

The mind, a bit like the soul, is a vague concept, much more so than feelings and warmth and food. That it is vague and non-material should not be used to underestimate it's value – do you think cows and sheep would condone being bred, fed and dead in a field if they had the intelligence to object. They may well feel pain and torture but they do not have the mind to do anything about it. In fact the more scientific term for mankind is homosapiens, meaning the thinking men/apes. The term (human), although widely, used is more an aspiration and an association with a higher power often referred to as God. Children of God are young thinkers, and even cows think. So an individual cow or person has to have a desire and the will to see and get beyond the current situation.

Developing God, DevilGod, DevGod, Devi

The query that nags is how to develop the soul, assuming you have one, found one or are in the process on considering if you have or want one etc. The soul is regularly associated with the concept of god so your concept of soul is likely be aligned with that.

The query raises the negative from which the positive must arise, though neither is a consequence of the other. Up and down exist from and in the same space, every space everywhere outside of time. This is the beauty of logic and the key to the soul and it's development.

All the above seems to make sense as it pours from my strained and decaying brain, but what I have said, or in this case, written. Via the eye mind there is greater scope to reconsider detail, which brings infinite questions that can only be temporarily resolved through adjustment of those words, so often written, yet again. (writing slows the conscious thinking, making a more deliberate imprint)

So provoked by my dissatisfaction with my efforts to express any logic that has anything more that the smallest of significance that I fumble in the mire of my desire. What I want is so much less than that I have and so I hope that by regurgitating these, those, some, words I will eventually settle on one. This one will more so be a token of lust for that I yearn, the simplicity of love which I understand is so close that I dare not touch or feel it for it would surely be damaged.

And so to the word, could it be soul, does that word encompass the love I am and yet yearn for, it doesn’t semm to say that. Is it more the sound of the word or it’s lack of heart. For in the words father and mother and to some lesser extent sister and brother there is an inherent element of care, often argued more so for the mother. But it is not the word that is caring so it has to be the application. No doubt some mothers can be a pain in the arse, overbearing and demanding, the soul has none of these issues. I cannot settle on a word that can so easily switch from caring to consuming and as my thoughts are playing with such concepts continually it would seem my mind could never find the word.

The sound of the word soul is becoming off-putting as though it is demanding of being not just itself and all within in it, like the space of indefinte light, but it needs mentioning by me. Still it is I that need to speak of it not that needs me to speak of it.

This word, which could be any set of letters and any sound is just a door stop to keep the mind from closing the options by increasing them. There is only one option – escape. Keep the door open as return is essential if there is to be a future. The open door is the space wherein all exists. Stand in the doorway until the door way disappears and resisting the way forward. As the beauty appears ahead I know it is only a projection of my desire so I dance my way to knowhere in ever decreasing circles and ever slowing time.

The word of some four letters can be truncated for easier carriage, less weight, less more to manage a slighlt sweeter sound and some may prefer omm but so will do fine. And the sound is less defined sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Standing on the threshold of the doorway is not an invitation to reach the beauty before you but to allow the beauty within you to melt into the realm that holds you.