The Soul or Ghosts or Heaven?

We reach for concepts like the soul or ghosts or demons or heaven because we need those concepts to explain our existence, which is full of mysteries. We also use those concepts to communicate our unspoken feelings. Listen to Shelley wrestling with those ideas and what they mean for him. This is him to intellectual beauty. A bit of beauty that dust consecrate with thine own hues all thou dust shine upon, of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Ask why the sunlight not forever weaves rainbows or yawn mountain river? Why ought should fail and fade that once is shown? "Why man has such a scope for love and hate, despondency and hope?"