ensouled

ensouled (comparative more ensouled, superlative most ensouled)

1. Having a soul or spirit; Having sentience, consciousness and will.
   • 2003, John Breck, God with Us: Critical Issues in Christian Life and Faith, page 52:

     In any case, whether the mother gives birth to a single child or to "identical twins." the result is the birth of one or more "ensouled" persons.

   • 2012, Gananath Obeyesekere, The Awakened Ones, page 130:

     As with Plato, the beings inhabiting our world are not ensouled in the same degree: animals are not ensouled in the same manner as human beings; plants are even worse off because, unlike animals, they have no capacity for feeling.

   • 2014, Mike Hockney, The Mathmos:

     The universe if full of motion and full of souls, but some things are much more ensouled and causative of motion (more active) than other things.

   • 2017, David Wong, What the Hell Did I Just Read:

     Of course, a maggot is no more ensouled than a tree; put it on a piece of rotting flesh, and it will eat.

2. Having a spiritual aspect;
   • 2007, Roderick Main, Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience, page 75:

     More generally, one could say that through revealing a profound paralleling between the psychic and physical events, synchronicity as it were adds a missing half to each, making the psychic events more embodied and the physical events more ensouled.

   • 2014, Michael Fuller, The Concept of the Soul: Scientific and Religious Perspectives:

     Influenced by both Plato and Aristotle, Plotinus' project involved bringing together the Phaedo's portrait of the soul as otherworldly with the Timaeus' more ensouled account of the material world. (Rist 1967, p. 112).

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   • 2019, Natania Meeker, ‎Antónia Szabari, Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction, page 36:

     La Brosse's notion of the soul is both specific to any given being—"all subjects of nature have individual souls"—and common to all beings without hierarchical distinction:"[O]f all the souls that inhabit the universe, as forms that give being to things, some are not more ensouled than others, just as the life that results is not more lively in one subject than in another.”

3. Full of soul; soulful; spiritually profound.
   • 2007, Ross Heaven, The Way of the Lover: Rumi and the Spiritual Art of Love:

     For a. more ensouled world, therefore, we need to embrace the qualities of old age, too, no matter how old we ourselves are; its ability to act from truth rather than expectation and its awareness of the frailty and fragility of life will assist us in understanding what really matters and the importance of love in our lives: the only truth that really matters.

   • 2011, Shannon McCabe, Aesthetic Alternative:

     A fundamental yet virtually unexamined issue . . . today is the question of whether all beauty. . . is merely a random product of blind evolution and subjective circumstance or whether that beauty is in some sense significant and intentional, and expression of something more ensouled, more profound, intelligently relational, mysterious.

   • 2020, Baruch Luke Urieli, ‎Hans Müller-Wiedemann, Learning to Experience the Etheric World, page 48:

     Something similar occurs with the life-processes, which are more ensouled in the enjoyment of art than they are in normal life.

   • 2020, Dery Dyer, The Return of Collective Intelligence:

     We simply feel, as some describe it, more whole, more complete, more ensouled.

   • 2021, Dennis Pottenger, ‎Rebecca Pottenger, Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo:

     Or perhaps she was looking at personified figures who were dreaming her life toward—or into—death for the purpose of initiating the rebirth of life on a more conscious, and more ensouled, plane .

4. Instilled into the soul; deep and inward.
   • 1996, Rudolf Steiner, The Education of the Child, page 100:

     In this way, we can see how the son carries the mother's characteristics a step deeper so that they become a part of his consitution, whereas the daughter raises the father's characteristics a step so that they are more inward, more ensouled.

   • 2015, Renee Winters, The Hoarding Impulse: Suffocation of the Soul:

     We gain nothing by prescribing a fixed treatment regimen instead of an ensouled connection with each other, and we lose considerable insight into soul and psyche.

   • 2019, Robin van Löben Sels, Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy:

     The history of the shaman gives us an image of the first historical human figure that we know of who was initially pat of a tribal culture, then alienated trough a destabilizing eruption of visionary material ('broken'), and finally reassembled through what appears to be a unique process of evolving ego capacity and a growing possibility of witnessing consciousness that made them whole again; not 'whole' as the shaman was before, but whole in a way that includes the molten gold of conscious suffering and the ensouled wisdom that suffering can bring.

ensouled

1. simple past and past participle of ensoul