SHOULD YOU WORRY ABOUT SOUL?

I have often heard animated discussions about "SOUL". We often wish eternal bliss for "departed souls".We call it "ATMASHANTHI".
I am reminded of the skeptic prayer:"Oh my God!-(If there is a GOD!), Save my Soul!(If I got a Soul!)"
I feel "Soul" is the fanciest creation of human wishful thinking that created an idea of afterlife, which made most humans feel good to be living for ever.Being a realist, I always considered the neuroscientific view that the mind is what the brain does and "soul" is just poetry, which the Indians are very good at."SOUL" is the powerful tool which was used by religious clerics to take control of the followers and make them fear death. It is known that in the past 50000 years, 106 billion humans were born. About 6 billion are living now.Out of the 100 billion, dead and gone, not one soul has come back to us to tell how the life after death has been...
We have been brainwashed to revere our ancient yogis who "REALISED" and experienced oneness with the soul. If you are willing not to be brainwashed with this kind of delusion, there is simple scientific explanation.All such fantastic beyond-body experiences that yogis and gurus and priests talk about for centuries can be induced in any one's mind by subjecting our temporal lobes to magnetic fields. Posterior superior parietal lobe in a region of the brain that helps us to orient our body in space.If this area is damaged in an accident,people cannot find their way inside the house.In deep meditation, this area goes into sleep mode and the distinction in the brain between self and non-self breaks down.When this happens, the great Guru or mystic profoundly says that he is experiencing a sense of oneness with the BRAHMAN. With this experience the nuns or the Mullas say they are actually feeling the presence of GOD!I think it is just enough to understand that brain chemistry is responsible for all delusions that religious interpretations provide awe-inspiring names and colours.
If you question these grand deceptions, you are looked down as being an undergrown human who cannot comprehend the great secrets of philosophic wisdom. Dont worry.You will never need such certification to lead a moral rich contented informed life.
Since our normal experiences of stimuli come into the brain from outside, when one part of the brain, abnormally generates these illusions, another part of the brain interprets this as external happenings .
If you convince yourself not to get yourself confused with the pompous jugglery of words used by phosphors and gurus and prophets and resort to your own common sense, it will be clear that "SOUL" is an attempt of an idea by religion to deconstruct your self esteem and rebuild it around a core of religious concepts.
If at all there is a soul remaining after our death, it simply cannot hold any of our memories, the reason being that memories are stored in the Hippocampus, the Amygdala and the striatum as known to any student of elementary biology.These parts of the brain can be damaged. Your soul, again has nothing to do with your personality and brain damage can severely affect personality. Ask any doctor and he will confirm that if temporal lobe of the brain is damaged, one cannot recognise any faces.This is called Prosopagnosia.
So, if such a powerless soul by chance exist, why bother about it at all.Save that trip to Rishikesh !
Jayanthram