Opression

I think perhaps it is more a hinderance, opression, than a thing that can touch the soul. Opression is about denying the subject the things they are entitlede to, truth namely. Your soul owns you and therefore it isn't affected by worldly affairs to any extent beyond your power; you are your soul's like calous is your foot's. Opression is the tool to prevent you from reaching your soul. There is the power of creation, or, the sum. As a river, to move with the flow provides one with the power of that river. To express as life expresses, onto everything, endlessly is to exist with that power of life.

Apathy would be the effect of disconnection to the soul within, or, entirely throughout. Connection to nature would in turn be crucial to realization for the river as it were is bigger than the log it swiftly carries down stream; there is a stream of flow that can "carry away" the individual conscience. Enlightenment; Exercise, Meditation, Fasting.