What I see in humanity is the potential to evolve - IMO - theories of quantum mind are the drivers in both the spiritual and scientific worlds - a renaissance would be a merger of such efforts. IMO - soul is the expression of quantum mind - the driver for the continuation of life even if this continuation is an abstraction, now. In its most basic sense, soul is another means of survival - the near death experience is the most clinical example. IMO - the mind works holistically with the four energies at play - electric impulses change the conformation of specially evolved proteins in the neuronal path - these proteins may act as a film for which dreams are developed but it is a film which is in a constant state of flux in terms of composition. IMO - it is this film that allows for the perception of the NDE experience while the patient is in a low-energy, physiological state. Remote Viewer Prudence Calabrese was fond of saying that anyone can remote view implying that the genetics and physiology are there for everyone - the so-called psi-genes, I gather. Now, the amazing thing to me about these proteins - called Eccle's Gate's - is that they have counterparts in such simple organisms as an ameoba - science still cannot explain why an ameoba "behaves" - how can it nonrandomly search for food - they call this chemotaxis - or the movement toward a specific chemical but what energies are the chemical releasing for the ameoba to detect it - how good is an ameoba's 'quantum mind'? getting back to the human mind - IMO - we are cognitive as a matter of fields but the fields are disproportionate depending on our acceptance of the concrete versus the abstract. energy is put in and the cognitive pathway of a dream starts as a single point (zero or one-dimensionality) and unfolds as linear (one or two-dimensionality) - in the abstract, i call this linear thinking or dogma or narrow-mindedness - actually, we spend most of the day in this mode; most of the people we deal with are in a similiar mode and they haunt the bulletin boards with inane posts - the release of bullshit energy but, the soulful ones are those who engage expansive efforts, even if they are abstractions for now; the energy input from the onset is a matter of curiosity combined with veracity to develope thinking into soul expressions of 3rd dimensionality; 4th dimensionality and beyond; we begin to accept the feelings and intuitions associated with soul expressions and something meaningful evolves from it - two in love as an example - 'we' just sorta 'happen' and 'we' happen with soul dimensionalities - and 'we' get to try and understand it for whatever duration and dimensionalites that 'we' define. now, maybe the innerterrestials (children of the reptile - Hopi legend) and the extraterrestials (children of the feather - Hopi legend) had soulful expressions in their past but something happened to both cultures to restrict them from their own evolutionary potentials - probably war then, and maybe Revelations now??? - so, humans may have a role here in the understanding of alien cultures - perhaps, as mediators of peace but, i think the 'subterranians' and 'angels' have souls, too - perhaps, they have them locked up with linear thinking - evil seperates; good unifies - and so, wouldn't this renaissance based on quantum theories that i talk about be beneficial for the good of all - depending on how it is applied and by whom???