Based on Taoist? idea that we don't automatically have a soul to survive our life, we have to develop one.
What if this is true? That most people that just drift along in their life do not leave behind a coherent soul that survives - it just kind of 'pops' and the essences that made up that individual return to the well of being. So there is this idea that through rigorous self-awareness, self-work and hewing to some path the soul is built up as a pearl builds around the the original irritation of a grit of sand.
The grit is the questions we all seem to be born with. What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Why is there injustice? What should I do? And so on.
I always assumed that if there was anything to this idea the souls that were so created to continue on to another existence, whether on another plane, or incarnating in this world again were 'good' or value free. (Not a big believer in good and evil.) But what if these souls indeed follow a 'good' or 'evil' path? Or selfish or selfless - some sort of Manichean progress... And with each incarnation, if the work continues the souls become more powerful, more unfocussed? And this is where the good God and the evil Devil come from?
Not proposing this as a basis for religious belief, but it might make an interesting story...
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