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THE IMPACT OF THE HUMAN SOUL ON THE SOUL OF THE SPACE

ABSTRACT

This article will be speaking about the spirit of the space, soul and its definition. Introducing the phenomenological aspects of phenomenology, soul of the space and multisensory perception of the human body into architecture theory. the main aim of this paper is to show the impact of the human soul on a space (architectural indoors/outdoors or public space and natural landscapes) and vice versa. The theories behind them, the objective is to compare and relate 2 topics about spirit of the space from different sources. Using basic Comparative research methods to identify, analyze and explain similarities and differences amongst different sources of information with a perspective to discover something about one or all of the matters and the comparable resources. The benefits to be gained from a comparative method is to obtain a higher understanding of each authors personal opinion regarding the case and their research processes. In conclusion the study’s results show that a space has its our soul and deeper emotional and sentimental values that can be perceived by different individuals and has its diverse, unique and untouched relationship with one’s inner thoughts and emotions (soul); also a human’s positive/negative thoughts and emotions will have a direct impact towards their own perception of a certain space based on how there and in peace with themselves in regards being optimistic/pessimistic, happy/sad or even how a space might trigger certain memories therefore affect the space with invisible negative or positive energy radiating and affecting everyone in the space including the space itself. Architecture is a dependent place.

Keywords/Taglines: phenomenology, soul of the space, embodiment, multisensory perception, dualism.

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1. INTRODUCTION

Hence, architecture is going to be seen as an imaginative practice which entails multisensory, embodied thoughts so on determine the sense of being within the planet then have an identity and a “SOUL”. To further more understand the phenomenology of space, we should always understand the definition of soul/spirit and underline truth meaning of which its existence or absence could have certain impacts on the wholesome aura of the place. ‘SOUL ‘is already part in life discussed by many, understood by many yet is additionally still confuses many. W hat’s So Important about the Soul and Consciousness? Throughout history, the overwhelming majority of people, educated and uneducated alike, are dualists (those who believe that the soul is an immaterial thing different from the body and brain), a minimum of within the sense that they have taken somebody's to be the type of thing that may enter life after death while his or her corpse was left behind. Some kind of dualism appears to be the natural response to what we seem to grasp about ourselves through introspection and lots of thinkers who deny dualism still admit that it is the commonsense view. Thus, physicalist Jaegwon Kim (a Korean-American philosopher. physicalist is someone who denies the existence of a soul and says that consciousness is simply physical or a minimum of hooked in to the physical) acknowledges that “We commonly think that we, as individual people, have a mental and bodily dimension. Something like this dualism of personhood, he believes, it is common lore shared across most cultures and non- secular and traditions. Not only has belief within the soul been included within the commonsense beliefs of people everywhere the world throughout the ages, but also the concept that there is a soul has been the constant teaching of the various religions since the beginnings, however, it's widely believed that science has rendered this commonsense and biblical view obsolete and implausible. although science cannot prove dualism is fake, still, “science has provided an infinite amount of evidence suggesting that we'd like not postulate the existence of an entity sort of a soul or mind so on elucidate life and consciousness.”

Sadly, this opinion isn't limited to academic circles. to figure out this, consider the following two cases. To design places of spiritual quality and depth, designers must reconnect themselves to the character of place, so on make some way of belonging before presenting a design solution. the quality site analysis research produced by architects is simply too far away from the atmosphere of place and often becomes a set of drawings representing a hierarchical human use analysis based solely on function. this type of process must change so on originate awareness of the character of place, including making

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users more present with time and their own sense of belonging. Rituals are an inherent a component of spirituality, and through this case, the acts performed to grasp and embody the character of place encourage the sense of spiritual. The rituals presented during this paper are ethnographic methods that challenge the Western conventions of the design process. They enhance and boost empathy and creativity through writing poetry that targets many different aspects such as personifications, rhythms, and bodily movement that showcases the true knowledge of the sense of place and the Spirit of the place with words and action. the planning of public spaces may be a important aspect of our culture and significant engagement. To hit meaningful spaces, the private and civic culture must be expressed and highlighted. This paper presents the thanks to change the quality design process so on raised understand the character of place before designing a solution On the inside Space of the Spirit of Place.

2.?METHODOLOGY

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By creating the spirit of indoor space, reflects the important value of interior design in the architectural design. We're all one substance comes and goes like everything else because this whole world is an on and off system. As the Chinese say it's the Yang and the Yin, and therefore it consists of now you see it now you don't. Here you are here you're on here you want because that's the very nature of energy to be like waves and waves have crests and troughs only. We ended up being under a certain kind of sleepiness or illusion. Imagine that. The process is going to overcome the wave or the crest. The, the dark principle is going to overcome the Yang or the light principle. And that is finally going to try and prove. And we shall I say bugs ourselves by indulging in that illusion. Gee, supposing darkness did go out, wouldn't that be. And so we're constantly trembling, thinking that it may, because after all. Isn't it odd that anything exists? It's most peculiar it requires effort and requires energy, and it would be so much easier for the, to have been nothing at all.

Therefore, we think well, since the inside of things is so much effort. you always give up after a while and sink back into debt is just the other face of energy. And it's not being anything around that produces something around, just in the same way that you can't have without space, no space without solid. When you wake up to this, and realize that the more it changes the more it's the same thing as the French say, you really playing on this one energy. And there is nothing else that it is you, for you to be always you would be an insufferable ball. And therefore, it is arranged that you stop being you after a while, and then come back to someone else altogether. So when you find that out. You become full energy. And you suddenly see through the whole thing, you realize you are that we won't put a?name on it. And you can't be anything else. So you are relieved of fundamental terror. That doesn't mean that you're always going to be a great hero. But you won't jump when you hear it. You won't worry occasionally, that you won't lose your temper. It means though that fundamentally deep, deep down within you will be able to be human. In the difficulties and struggles that naturally go with human existence. To have no hang up. That is to say, to be able to drift like a cloud and flow like water is a magnificent illusion, a claim of energy.

Fundamentally, you will be afraid. You will be afraid of putting your hand in the fire will be afraid of getting sick. He will not be afraid of fear. Over your mind, like a black cloud will be reflected in the mirror. The prospect of vanishing efforts and all your achievements and your all your attainments turning into what is the fee. One is going to work for some reason or other we're supposed to fund this depression. In a way, that is the most real state is the state of nothing. That the basic reality is nothing. Where does all this is different nothing, how it looks. So in this way. By seeing that nothingness is the fundamental reality. You see it's your reality. How can anything. The idea of your being scared and put out worried and so on is nothing it's a dream. But this is the most incredible. If you think of this nothingness. And you hold on to the idea, and you haven't understood if you said nothingness is really like the nothingness of space, which contains the whole universe. All the movie stars and the rivers, the good men and the bad men and the animals and the insects. All How can pay them. So out of this void covers everything, and you are it. What else.

2.1 THE IMPACT OF AN ABSENT SOUL ON A SPACE

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what you do in life chooses you. You can choose not to do it. You can choose to try to do something safer, your vocation chooses you, you can tell what I love, by the color of the paintings. You can tell my inner life by the darkness and some of them and you can tell what I want from the brightness and some of them You can tell my inner life by the darkness and some of them and you can tell what I want from the brightness and some of them will make a little more progress now, it's really kind of cool what happens with these things you know because you really don't know what a sculpture or a painting. Totally means you think you do. Most of the time I start out with a plan. And then, like a year later I realized that the painting was telling me what I needed to know about myself. A year before. I think what makes someone an artist is they make models of their inner life. They make something physically come into being. That is inspired by their emotions or their needs or what they feel the audience needs. Freedom. No one else tells you, you can or can't do most the time has to be serviced. You're servicing their subconscious. At the same time, you're doing something that someone's going to relate to hopefully You just bouncing off one molecule on to the next, or going through them at such a pace that they just ignite and explode, until you find another art that's doing the same thing as landed and cooled. And then you start to flow to the energy that surrounds the spirit of the place is electric. The Space is really our desire to convey human consciousness. I want you to have the feeling when you looked in your eyes through the reflection that you are accepting of who you are. I wanted you to be able to stare at you and heal you. From the painting/ installation. You can find every race in the spirit of the place. I think that's how every race imagines a space they imagined them as their own company. I get so stuck on trying to choose color but it just teaches me, I know that it just frees me free from the future, free from the past, free from regret, free from worry. Something inside you are always telling a story. I believe every single thing that you see in here is talking to you. The bottom line with all of this, whether it's performance or its art, sculpture is love, or an installation with its soul. We want to show ourselves, and have that be accepted. I love being alive. And the art is the evidence of that Multisensory Perception.

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2.2. MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION

The?Object?is Absent?is a?"less materialistic"?design?exhibition?for an?overcrowded world!

THE ABSENT OBJECT

is an existing art show installation. It is an art installation that emphasizes the artists and designer’s human body, away from the object they created. With that being the concept of the installation, it is to highlight and demonstrate the swap of emotions and human perception and priorities?the?impact?of??human existence??as??art??in??itself?and unique, with it have a SOUL.

Figure (1)

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Not like any other exhibitions, that only focuses on the displayed object, THE OBJECT IS ABSENT It puts the bodies of the artists and designers in the middle of their work. With that being filling the space, then visitors explore and have to experience the spirit of the place through the bodies of the artist and their souls. Psychological enough? yet also very poetic and elaborative with a simple act of “humanity “bringing life to the space as the human bodies reflect their soul onto the spirt of the space. It actually is the omnipresence of something that is felt even in its absence. Distance can be handled, presence felt, though in not any tangible sense... but absence, is unforgivable. Absence is not emptiness or void.

3.1????MIND OF THE BODY & SOUL EMBODIMENT

So then let's consider first of all what's a mind within the grip of vicious circles.?Well, one in all the foremost obvious instances that we all know is that the phenomenon of worry. The doctor tells you that you simply need to have an operation. which has been founded so automatically everybody worries about it. it isn't good for you. But you cannot stop, and thus you get additionally. Furthermore, because that's quite absurd and you're mad at yourself because?you?are?doing?it,?you're??worried because you're worried because that's a vicious circle. So now. are you able to allow your mind to be quiet? Isn't it difficult, because the mind seems to be sort of a monkey jumping up and down and jabbering all the time. Once you've learned two stuff you can't stop and an infinite number of individuals devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and Felix extremely uncomfortable with silence when you're alone, nobody's saying anything. There's nothing to try to this this is often worrying. This lack of distraction, I'm left alone with myself. I need to urge aloof from myself I'm always needing to go away from myself that's why I’m going to the flicks. That's why I read mystery stories. That's why I’m going off to women or anything that you simply do or get drunk or whatever. i do not want to be with myself. I feel queer. So, why does one want to run away. What's so bad about.

Figure (2): outdoor sculpture representing public spirit

What does one want to forget this? Why does one want to become? Because you're smitten by thoughts. Drop also thinking that habit. So there is a difficulty about stopping that activity, and you actually should stop it if you wish to be safe. Because if I talk all the time. I do not care what anyone else needs to say. And I'll find yourself within the situation of getting nothing to speak about precisely the same. If i believe I won't have anything to give some thought to except thoughts. So as to possess something to give some thought to. There are times after you simply must stop thinking, well how does one try this. the primary rule is don't try and. Because if you are doing, you may be like someone trying to create rough waters smooth, with a flat. Know that we'll do we'll stir it up. So within the same way as a muddy turbulent pool quiets itself when left alone. you've got to grasp a way to leave your mind alone. it'll quiet itself.

3.2???WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT THE SOUL AND CONSCIOUSNESS?

Highlighting with Figure (3) and how it speaks out the words of belonging yet, like you're purported to say we're important, you're purported to say, it's all going be very well. And you're imagined to say that, only you know, whatever your dream can come true. And you're speculated to say all those things, I do believe manifestation power that sort of stuff. But i do not believe that any of it matters, this mattering is up to us somebody's construct, born out of a requirement to mention the identical need as you've got to possess, you know, deities and things like that and that I believe an energy of God, energy of everything divine. You know, there's nothing that won't divine everything is divine and I am that. And it doesn't concern??me,??what's??happening??and??I??am??finding that

Figure (3): art installation highlighting the absent soul outdoors

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Figure (4): representing soul of nature

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ultimately, is the liberty from itself, is some things people are reasonably hungry for. They're like, I do not want to be me there. you recognize idea and acquire all the things that individuals dream about and achieve a bunch of a bunch of things as means, that appear as if success so as to present up our attachment to those things. it has been a?part of the?evolution ?of

Figure (5): outdoor sculpture in nature reflecting human approach

egos, is to spend half of your life, acquiring and adding thinking you'll be able to augment yourself and it's great. But it's great after you got your cool car and you bought good nice clothes and, you know, and you're, and you have done something that individuals admire, but you'll never fulfill you'll never be happy. you recognize what I mean it is not where happiness comes from, and you recognize you addressed depression.

People have sadness, joy, elation satisfaction and gratitude beyond belief that every one of it's what spins around planet to Happy Places realizing that there is no involvement first place. it is a weird little semantic??jump??that??you??just

make. feels like totally threatening being. We are not able to not be. We’ve built this construct, and it’s just that ideas are just ideas, the sole thing that separates us from each other based on our skin color would be the climate and regional distribution. The adaption to the

climate.??so,??the??sensation?of

wholeness,?may?be?a different

Figure (6): Reflection of human trace in nature

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feeling than meanness. you recognize, It's just like the one thing we prefer people speak about depression all the time the difference between depression and sadness. Sadness is simply, you know, from happenstance whatever happened or didn't happen for you, or grief or whatever it's, and depression is your body and mind saying, I give up. We do not want to be this character anymore. we do not want to carry up this avatar that you've got created the globe is simply too much on behalf of us. And we ought to think about the word of depressed, as deep rest deep. rest your body has to be depressed needs deep rest from the character that you've got been trying to play.

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4. CONCLUSION

In this research we saw that we should care about the soul and consciousness because Understanding the immaterial nature of the human spirit is crucial to grasping the essence of spiritual growth.

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demonstrates why understanding the nature of soul is critical to many of the cultural discussions of today. Many more scholars target and have detailed discussions like Moreland, he offers us a rare combination: philosophical acuity, philosophical fidelity, and technical accessibility. Also diving deeper with further more explanations and examinations regarding this matter I approached and the absence of soul. Many think science has displaced the soul. Nothing could be further from the truth! In this quintessentially Moreland book, The Soul provides compelling evidence for the existence of the soul and shows why it matters so deeply for our daily lives.

In addition, secular thought denies the human soul. In this splendid book, J. P. Moreland restores the soul to the center of our identity as creatures made in the image of God. Moreland is a first-rate philosopher of mind and top-tier Christian apologist, known for his rigorous argumentation, but here the style is straightforward and accessible to no specialists. All of the key terms are clearly defined, and then the biblical, theological, and philosophical case for the soul is laid out. Anyone who suspects the soul has been dismissed without fair trial will be encouraged by Moreland’s bold and timely defense.

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Figure (7):???Set?diagram?explaining?what elements create, ‘sense of place’.

Boundaries are defined lines that draw the difference between two spaces: your side and my side. Recovery may be a journey in defining, realizing, and enforcing boundaries so as to guard and nourish a developing sense of self. Physical boundaries are the foremost strict and obvious boundaries because they will be seen, spoken, and enforced with?a physical reference. Other styles of?boundaries?don't?seem?to be

visible or tangible and may sometimes be difficult to speak. With physical boundaries there's little confusion. Unlike physical boundaries, emotional boundaries are tougher to define. Just liked other boundaries, the spiritual, emotional and mental boundary has a very significant specific impact on an individual’s life and experience. Hence forming a new and unique perception of space when compared to other people.

How do I create boundaries against emotions, which are invisible and intangible? most frequently, emotional boundaries don't seem to be directly communicated, but are acted upon internally and externally by a private. An architectural building are physical structures, that initially haven't any meaning until we provide it meaning, whether emotionally or mentally, thus turning an area into an area Mental Boundaries, however, self-esteem is fragile when mental boundaries are weak. although mental and emotional boundaries are intangible, the mind ties bonds with a tangible structure to the intangible boundaries. the varied words, opinions, thoughts, criticisms, and even compliments that come from others can have a major, sometimes damaging effect- if it's allowed. Mental boundaries help establish the sense of safety and security, without it no space may be used for its intended function.

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Additional Summary of this research article:

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/ THE IMPACT OF THE HUMAN SOUL ON THE SOUL OF THE SPACE /

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Keywords/Taglines: phenomenology, soul of the space, embodiment, multisensory perception, dualism.

Research Aim:

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o??To bring awareness to the impact of the human soul on a space (architectural indoors/outdoors or public space and natural landscapes) and vice versa. Highlight the theories behind them.

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o??To Compare and Relate 2 Topics Related to The Impact of the Human Soul On the Soul of the Space from different sources.

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o??what impact of an absent soul on a space?

o??how does the phenomenology of architecture and space affect the human soul?

o??multisensory perception

o??how does the mind of the body have an impact on the soul embodiment?

o??what’s so important about the soul and consciousness?

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Methodology [Data Collection Technique]:

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Using Comparative research method is to identify, analyze and explain similarities and differences across different sources of information with a view to discovering something about one or all of the things being compared. The benefits to be gained from a comparative method is to obtain a deeper understanding of each point of view and research processes.

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