This term appeared in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK as the secret resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. But it means something else to me. Imagine that before a spirit is strong enough, personal enough, to have outer edges, when it is without a body to inhabit, it exists as part of a whole comprised of all-soul, undefined as cat or bird or crab or... whatever form it lived in or will live in. This is what I call the well of souls. This goes along with the idea that souls evolve. They begin simply... Sign in to see full entry.