People can have a spirit or spiritual body {soul}| {spirit}.
number
People can have only one soul. Perhaps, people can have demons or angels.
existence
Souls can continuously exist from universe beginning or can begin at conception or birth. Souls can survive after death or not.
Souls can exist in spiritual world, in heaven or hell, in human bodies, independently of body, in animal bodies, or in all living things.
properties
Souls can have different personalities, be the same, or be similar parts of larger soul-like things, such as God.
Souls can be eternal, be separate, and have history. Souls can be part of, and within, eternal divine memory.
Souls can be eternal divine views of present earthly existence.
Souls can represent eternal moral qualities of present life, with no further existence after death.
Souls can be person essence.
However, mind or essence comes from brain processes and structures, not necessarily from God. Souls can be anything, because they are not physical, and so do not carry meaning in physical world.
intellect
Body spiritual essence or mind is permanent, cannot change, and has no intellect. Souls connect to body mental faculties and are its individuality. Perhaps, souls have conscious life, involving decisions, actions, and responsibilities.
animals
Because animals can perceive, do they have souls?
Most religions say spiritual life can continue after death {immortality}| {life after death, soul}. Religions can say that spiritual life exists before birth.
types
Life after death can take several forms. Minds can continue, without any bodies. Minds can merge into collective mind. Perhaps, people have no minds but start completely different existences.
evidence
People have claimed that immortality indications are possible. Dreams show that spirit remains even when people are unconscious. People can affect others even after their deaths, so effects have spiritual cause. Most body changes do not alter human mind, and mind can alter without apparent body changes.
Perhaps, souls can be mortal {mortalism} {mortalist heresy}.
spiritual essence or mind {psyche}|.
Perhaps, spiritual essence, mind, or psyche can move to another body {metempsychosis} {transmigration}|, which then has life.
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