i was housed in this body, but not only this body. i was housed in this personality, i was housed in this emotional web, i was housed in this identity. but there is still an i even that stands aside from all my anecdotal identity and that i is rather pure and featureless. its probably what religious people think of as the soul, but i dont think of it that way because i have no religion. i think of it as my universal identity and it goes beyond ego — it goes beyond being hank, it goes beyond being male, it goes beyond being human, it goes beyond being animal, it is just life that i am an embodiment of, a universal cosmic quality called life.
but this quality, this featureless simple fact, is not recyclable. its not as though — and thats my problem with the soul — it will go on beyond me or my time. it is common, it is everywhere, there are trillions of examples of it as i speak and it never needs repeating, in the particular personal sense, theres no justification for the view that i will live my life or a life again, that i have multiple lives. but multiple life is an obvious fact and this simple featureless force which is life repeats itself endlessly without needing to repeat me.
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