oversoul
- noun
- /ˈoʊvərˌsoʊl/
- Archaic
- This "oversoul" does appear in Zarathustra.
Examples
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The oversoul, furthermore, is divine and an ultimate cause and creative source of the natural world.
Academic text (2017) -
Oversoul will abandon their posts once you use the right magic words to convince them that your creepy ambush hugging is really perfectly grand.
Blog text (19) -
Is she an oversoul too?
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Other days brought heightened intensity to the central project atop the oversoul.
Fiction book (1994) -
Emerson's idealism was pantheistic, identifying everything in nature with spirit, with the oversoul, with God.
Academic text (1998) -
She thought of the two tables in various ways: as the undertow and the waves, or the viscera and the mind, or the undersoul and the oversoul—all determined by their vertical relationship.
Fiction book (1994) -
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that connecting with the oversoul could lead to spiritual enlightenment.
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Many philosophies suggest that recognizing the oversoul can help individuals feel at one with nature and each other.
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The concept of the oversoul emphasizes a shared spirit that links all living beings together.
Synonyms
A single inner spirit that connects all living things
A higher level of mind that connects many people
A higher state of mind beyond normal human thought
How Transcendent
- Literature
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oversoul breaks into over meaning 'above' and soul meaning 'spirit'. So an oversoul is a 'higher' or shared spirit that is thought to be above individual souls and to connect all living beings.