Or perhaps the individual spark of consciousness we call a soul exists and operates under the auspices of and rules established by an overriding Consciousness. The former created by the latter. Hence that nagging sense humanity has evidently always had, and which atheists so angrily and illogically (why be so angry with something you say you are sure doesn’t exist?) rebel from, that there’s some higher power behind existence.
I’m not angry. And I’d say believing in invisible, mind-reading critters in the sky passes for illogical rather than the reverse.