Where is your soul?

Do you know where lies your soul? Have you thought about what is a soul? Is it a physical entity or a metaphysical description like "mind".

Noted Philosophy Professor Stephen Asma from Columbia College, Chicago says this is where the mistake in understanding lies...."The problem with some religious and New Age soul talk is that it exports the soul concept from the domain of subjective expression to the domain of objective fact, where it can have no empirical corroboration". Lot of mambo jumbo here, it may seem. Essentially what he says is that we make a "category" mistake while doing "soul" talk. Its not part of a scientific expression but is part of the primordial language of expression.

Asma quotes philosophers like Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Kenneth Burke who have suggested that language is originally expressive, rhetorical and dramatic but is only derivatively scientific and explanatory.

So the crux is, soul talk is more an expression than explanatorial. The word soul is deemed understood 'when we have arrived at that naked expression of subjective yearning'. You don't have to go any further. Its purely used as a function of a statement and not literally.