You Are Not the Body, So who are you? Options

[Simba]

"I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with a different collective label." -- Carl Sagan, Scientist

There are many people who believe that they, real selves, are in fact their body. However, there have been other people that have suggested that you are actually not your body, but an eternal soul.

An analogy supporting this would be that we are to our bodies as people are to cars. A person drives a car, has to take care of the car, can decorate the car, but is in fact not the car itself.

Sound too supernatural to be for real? Discuss.

[Ington]

I believe that we do not have souls in the traditional sense, but that definitely have metaphysical features, or spirits. I believe that death is a constant out-of-body experience (to anyone who has ever had one, you know what I'm talking about), and that as we are, our metaphysical selves and our physical selves are working in a bit of a parasitic bond. The body strengthens from the spirit, while the spirit is constrained to our body's limitations.

Being pretty informed about and active in the world of psionics (similar to chakra and chi), my perspective is pretty different from an average person's.