Souls and the Journey within Realms by Onyeji Nnaji
Copied from the book, Cosmic Chain , by Onyeji Nnaji One seeming inconsequential part of the human existence is the human soul. The soul remains an inconsequential part of the human existence because it's presumed consequential functions have always been predetermined by the function of the human body. This interdependence gave researchers the impetuse to conclude that man does not have the soul, but the body. For the activities which any human can control are those activities within the bound of the body. The Igbo view the soul in a different way compared to the conclusion drawn above. Igbo believe that, as the body consequently determines the respondent activities of the soul, the soul on it's own ways also plays certain consequential roles against the body. Thinking in the line of this symbiotic relationship, the Igbo see the soul as the human's unseen persona, man's chi. The meaning of chi in the Igbo cosmology is multifaceted. For the Igbo see every aspect of the