Souls and Bodies
So wait...after you die, you wake up in Phantomspace as a ghost...so then later on you can die again and become some fog?
There's no reason to be so glum about it. The ghosts in the fog are finally at rest - dreaming in peaceful bliss, free of worry for the rest of eternity!
Although I must correct you, becoming one with the fog is not the same as dying a second time. "Death" has a very specific meaning for a soul - it's when the soul completely loses its connection with the body. Saying that a phantom has "died again" when it passes on is simply not true, as they don't even have bodies to lose at this stage.
Bodies...
Wait, how does that work with people like me? I have a ton of bodies all over the place in Zoincailla... do they all have souls too?
Does my soul break into little pieces every time I split into more copies of myself?
No, no. You must not think of the soul in such physical terms. Shape, size, position in space... by nature none of these properties exist for a soul, which is intangible and unbreakable.
All of your various bodies ultimately came from the original vessel that your soul appeared within, so your soul has an identical connection to each and every one of them.
Woo! Good to know I'll always be me!
Um. But wait... when you did your weird spell on me, my body fell asleep...
And that means...
Oh jeez! I didn't just fall asleep in the graveyard, I must be unconscious in like 12 different places right now! My fairy buddies are probably freaking out cuz I fainted in front of them for no reason! And there's a me that's supposed to be helping out at the cafeteria... and the me that was supposed to catch that episode of Super Samurai Squad...
I gotta stop being fake-dead right now! Who knows what's happening without me? The fate of the whole world could hang in the balance!
Please calm yourself. We don't experience the ordinary flow of time in this state. Surely nothing dreadful has happened during the few seconds that you've been–-
aaaAAAAAAAH!!
...oh.
I'm back...!