An idea from The Enneads

After that comes the drop back into ordinary thinking, and a question: how did the soul get into a body at all? One answer is that part of it never came down, and still sees, unnoticed. Later Platonists such as Iamblichus and Proclus rejected this.

From The Enneads by Plotinus

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