Body and soul

God attempts to create a perfect universe. This perfect universe is purely spiritual in nature, it has no physical aspect, and it is identical to God itself. God, in creating the universe, is actually creating itself. The physical dimension of the universe is a result of resistance. Resistance splits the essence of God, life and existence into pluralities and dualities. The origin of everything is oneness, unity. The core of everything the same.
It follows that the spiritual dimension in which our souls, our consciousness and will, lives, is in fact part of God. Our souls are part of God. However, it must be noted that the mind is not analogous to the soul. The soul is our basic life force, our will to act and to exist. Our thoughts and emotions are physical manifestations of our souls, as are our bodies.
Certain psychological experiments have come up with evidence hinting that the movement of our limbs occurs before activity in the areas of the brain controlling these movements can be seen. This seems to suggest that we are not in control of our bodies, and that there is no free will. It could just as well be evidence that will is something that occurs before thought, and that thoughts are physical manifestations of the self on the exact same level as the body.
One might say that the body, thoughts and emotions included, is an anchor for the soul, holding it together and in place. The soul lives in the entire body, not just in the mind. The impression that our mind contains our consciousness is an illusion caused by the fact that this is where our senses and the interpretive organ, the brain, are. The soul receives its information about the physical world through these objects, and so gets the impression that this is where it is. In reality, it is just as much present in our limbs, causing them to move, as it is in our brains, causing them to think.