The Last Frontier: The Soul's Path

By Vinicius Capucho

How to find the way of our Soul? How do we understand where we came from and where we're going? A philosophy, or philosophical principle about the Body - matter -, Soul and Spirit. The man, individual, in the maze of his life. At the end of your life.I interview in this book:A French woman who photographs decay. The decay of everything;An “Eternal Unconformed”, as he himself called himself. A man of integrity, rich, wise to where books allow him to go;A Pastor: the Act of Faith portrays his greatest nobility;A Monsignor: philosopher, loving, kind. He received the title of Monsignor by St. John Paul II;An old lady on her deathbed: The only material good she had left was the space of her bed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bibliomundi
• Release date: Mar 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9798530767180

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THE LAST FRONTIER

THE SOUL’S PATH

VINÍCIUS CAPUCHO

Copyright © 2020 Vinícius Capucho

All rights reserved

The characters and events in this book are not fictional. Any similarity with writings and thoughts from other authors, alive or deceased, is a coincidence and it is not intention by the author.

Not a single part of this book can be reproduced or stored in a recovery system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanic, photocopy, recording or others, without the express written permission by the editor.

ISBN: 9798530767180

Tanslated by: Lucas Chan Tcheou

Photography by: Lyvie.

Cover design by: Aaesha Zahra

Control number in the Congress Library: 2018675309

INDEX

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHTS

THE WHY

ABOUT FREEDOM

ABOUT THE PATHS

ABOUT EMPTINESS

BODY, SOUL, SPIRIT

ABOUT THE MEANING

ABOUT THE END

ABOUT THE MEDICATION

ABOUT THE BEGINNING

ABOUT MY BEGINNING

LYVIE’S LETTER (FRENCH)

DEDICATION

BOOKS FROM THIS AUTHOR

THE AUTHOR

Sit down in your armchair and take a look around. Exactly, this is the space reserved for the future: mine, yours, ours.

The old age and the decay are the tomorrow that is already here, or will soon be.

the why

A small step is necessary to achieve great achievements.

I begin this writing by quoting the magnificent approach of a hero of the Second World War, the Austrian neuropsychiatrist Viktor Frankl. At this point, do not interpret - or return - to the awareness that the noble Frankl was part of any army, but the army of the dying. Close your eyes: breathe; inhale. Remember the greatest sufferings of your humble life and obey the burning in your chest that you may feel. To suffer! I want you to grieve and weep for the passion of your pathetic worldly troubles.

Frankl suffers with his necessities, be them by the space or by the time. He will be restless, stunned: dead. However, deeply values his own suffering. He has a why.

Close your eyes.

Now, miraculously start to open them and note that you are still here, still, immobile, inert and powerless before the Superior Reason. Your sufferings, as well as your desires, so instantaneous and futile that they don’t even fir in a unique glimpse of your life’s movie.

About the superior and inferior reason, Thomas Aquinas takes this distinction from Augustine, and says that both are one single power that differs by its functions. The superior is the one that considers and deliberates about eternal things. The inferior, however, orders up to temporal things. (Thomas Aquinas, The Soul’s Immortality)

Despite all the huge effort to search and scour an intimately personal retrospective – singular – and untransferable, you will not find a single moment that portraits the impossible. The impossible is not part of the eternal life because of the simple fact that the life does not belong to you, but, on the contrary: you belong to her. The flesh individual – subject – does not have power over its own existence, because the sublime and perfect act of existing was given to him exclusively because of love. An act uniquely divine, invisible to the eyes.

Concession act.

Concluding: The impossible becomes reachable by any human being because it finds itself inserted in the context, still, material – physical. The matter is palpable, observed in any plan – nearby or distant -, and therefore, achievable. Just like matter, in any dimension, also the men or animals are conquerable by another. Slaved, physically or mentally, directly or indirectly, so manipulable and impoverished from the flesh life, like a puppet, a marionette used when needed, be it in a comedy, drama or tragedy. Conducted in space and time without any principal or rebellion.

Coming back to Frankl: A man blessed by having survived through the Nazi concentration fields during the war, more precisely between 1942 and 1945, he went through four fields. Physically massacred by the imposed conditions to the horrors in the prisons, however, spiritually strong. He lived the daily atrocities