A zombie has lost their soul and so follows the routines they had in life but without aliveness.
Losing ones soul takes many rounds of storytelling and forgetting. Like a Russian doll, stories build on each other where old stories form the substrate for new stories which hide the old.
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Souls are not stories. Children who trust the world act through their soul when they play. They make up stories to satisfy adults who have forgotten what it means to play, everything must have a reason to them.
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One can bargain with their soul. Frequently it is the only way not to lose it because life has many constraints. Manifesting it takes creativity where circumstances are rigid and confining.
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[Hungry ghosts as better metaphor, craving replaces joy and richness of perception that are part of instrinsic drive] [Giving up instrisic drive for extrinsic drives as selling ones soul]
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[Zombies are dangerous because their craving to feel alive will make them implusive or precipitate a mid life crisis.] [Zobies having forgotten their soul completely will ask you to forget yours too, external motivators are socially contagious]
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Seeking via neuroscience and psychology informed dharma.