Meister Eckhart, one of the greatest mystics, said that he prays to God to rid him of God, to make him free from God. That is a memorable formulation of a mystical atheism and of radical theology. 

The God Eckhart is trying to free us from is a God of our own construction, a God cut to fit the size of our images and concepts, propositions and arguments, not just the God of philosophers but also the God of theologians, of anything and anything we can say of God. But getting rid of that God does not spell the simple end of God for Eckhart, but the beginning, the genuine entry or breakthrough into the depths of God — the God to whom Eckhart is praying, let us say the God beyond God, the God without God. This God is not beyond and above, but in the “ground” of the soul, where God is lodged in our hearts or minds. 

The Folly of God
John Caputo 

Scripture uses the term soul (nephesh in Hebrew, psyche in Greek) to speak of the autonomic (self-regulating) depths of bodily life. The soul is the life-force of a body. 

Soul is what runs your life when you’re not actively deciding or choosing to do so. Like the autopilot program of a plane, your soul takes over when the pilot, that’s your heart (or spirit), is just too tired, distracted, confused, or otherwise disinterested in governing life. 

Soul Whisper
Daniel Austin Napier