I do not think we are born as a soul. I think we are born as a predisposition of the genetic streaming which has preceded us; each of us a unique manifestation of the flowing river of change.
We do not have a soul. If so, what is it doing the having? To go that route is to wander in a hall of mirrors, always looking to see who is doing the looking, and seeing nothing but reflection.
"Very well," one might say, "we do not have a soul. We are a soul." There is a comfortable feeling that comes with that. It's better than saying we are social security numbers. And there is a theology and metaphysics that goes with being a soul that can make us feel pretty happy if we have faith in it. But it kind of puts a stop to the conversation. A frame, a paradigm, has been set up, a jungle gym of concepts and beliefs, and all we can do is swing within its bars. Fine. Go ahead.
But I'm out here. And I repeat. I see us as a streaming, a process, ever being born, ever emerging.
The genetic streaming which continues to flow, and will flow long after "you" and "I" are gone, will keep producing speed bumps in its highway, slowing down its streaming just enough to manifest as these strange beings we call "humans."
Life is process, darling, and you are a speed bump in its flow.
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for a long time i had trouble with that word "soul" but isn't a soul a "Energy" a ball of light that keeps on changing and evolving into whatever it becomes? a part of the whole?
ReplyDeleteyou said: ..."But it kind of puts a stop to the conversation." not really if its ever constantly being born and ever changing. thank god for the unknowable... i love it. I'm a speed bump in its flow...okay i like that :)
ReplyDeleteif there were no speed bumps where do the flow flow and why?
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