Regardless of the character of the soul's existence in the intermediate state, biblical scholarship affirms that a disembodied soul is unnatural and at best transitional.
For example, Plato's Myth of Er depicts disembodied souls being sent underground to be punished after death.
Now a disembodied soul, Gerontius feels the support of his guardian Angel, bearing him to eternal judgment.
He was struck by a vision of a stream of disembodied souls streaking out into space, their flukes slowly beating- Flukes?
For most people at the moment of death there was, however, no hope of anything but continued existence as a disembodied soul.
These disembodied souls occupied the step above man yet below angels.
"You don't believe in a disembodied soul or anything like that."
Xykon's body is destroyed, but his disembodied soul is ferreted to safety by his lieutenant, Redcloak.
The question then arises: where exactly does the disembodied soul "go" at death?
This is the aspect of a disembodied soul.