Soul A soul was an ill - defined , sometimes religious term for the essence of a sentient being . For some , it was closely tied to the definition of life . According to the Eleventh Doctor , souls were made of stories , not atom s . ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) The soul was sometimes synonymous with a person ' s mind , their soul being composed of their memories , but even this was not considered accurate . However , the removal of a person ' s mind to another plane could simulate death , leading to the allusion between a soul and a mind . ( PROSE : " " , " Falls the Shadow " ) The souls of the dead passed through the Moon ' s influence on their way to Heaven , where they were sometimes caught by the Lunaries and offered new bodies . Leonardo da Vinci and Roger Bacon were two such persons who accepted , and by 1590 were still living there . ( PROSE : " Minions of the Moon " ) In the 22nd century , some artists used soul extractor s to improve their art , literally extracting portions of their souls and inserting them into the canvas . They used it sparingly , as the results of over - use were lethal . One time when an artist became addicted , he created a living being within the canvas . ( PROSE : " Untitled " ) Death , or Duroc , attempted to collect thirteen souls in order to fully enter our reality . He was stopped by Owen Harper at twelve . ( TV : " Dead Man Walking " ) The neutron eater s tricked Oliver Harrington into bringing more of them through from their dimension by making him think that angels were souls , returning from Heaven to the mortal world . ( AUDIO : " Lost Souls " ) In 2013 , Miss Kizlet scavenged the Wi - Fi to upload the souls of humans to feed to her client . ( TV : " The Bells of Saint John " ) Astral projection was a method of travel in which the soul was separated from the body . ( TV : " Image of the Fendahl " ) Souls in culture . Human . The Soulless were a group that arose during the Miracle Day event , which had rendered virtually all human s on Earth incapable of dying . Members of the Soulless believed that because they could not die , they had been robbed of their souls . ( TV : " Dead of Night " ) Gallifreyan . The Time Lord s had a rite called Soul Catching , in which a dying Time Lord would transfer his soul to another Time Lord , which would then get assimilated into the Matrix . ( PROSE : " The Devil Goblins from Neptune " ) The Eighth Doctor claimed that if he looked into the Eye of Harmony , his soul would be destroyed , and would be able to take over his body . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) Aplan . The Aplan s believed that , after death , their souls ascended through six levels to their version of the afterlife . They dedicated Mortaria to this . ( TV : " The Time of Angels " ) Dalek . According to Rusty , the Dalek s didn ' t have souls . ( TV : " Into the Dalek " ) References . The Qetesh , a species that fed off of the excitement of others , were sometimes referred to as " soul - stealers . " ( TV : " Goodbye , Sarah Jane Smith ) The Ninth Doctor said that the Heart of the TARDIS was its soul . ( TV : " Boom Town " ) The Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform took a human Host , saying that he " carved out his soul and sat in his heart " . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) When he revealed that the Krillitane s needed children rather than adult s to unlock the Skasis Paradigm because of their imagination , the Tenth Doctor said that they were using their souls as well as their mind s to crack the code . ( TV : " School Reunion " ) Having deactivated the emotional inhibitor s of the Cybermen , which resulted in their deaths , the Doctor told the Cyber - Controller that he had gave them back their souls . ( TV : " The Age of Steel " ) Captain Jack Harkness claimed that technobabble was good for the soul . ( TV : " Everything Changes " ) After Amy Pond looked directly into the eyes of a Weeping Angel , the Eleventh Doctor described her as having " opened her soul to it . " ( TV : " The Time of Angels " ) When the Twelfth Doctor linked his mind with Rusty ' s , Rusty claimed to see into the Doctor ' s soul and saw " beauty " , " divinity " and the Doctor ' s " hatred of the Dalek s " and saw that " it [ was ] good " . ( TV : " Into the Dalek " )