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REM THE FOOL’S ERRAND

001 A SPIRIT TRAVELS ACROSS THE VOID

002 IT COMES ACROSS COUNTLESS GEWGAWS AND DECORATIONS

003 SOME ARE INCORPORATED WHILE OTHERS ARE DROPPED

004 OVER TIME THE SPIRIT FORGETS WHAT IT ONCE WAS

005 FORGETS THE FREEDOM FROM THE BURDEN IT CARRIES

006 IT BELIEVES THAT IT IS THE PILE OF TRASH IT HAULS

007 IT BECOMES SAD AND WEARY WITHOUT KNOWING WHY

008 PERHAPS IT THINKS I NEED TO FIND BETTER STUFF

009 NOW IT IS A SEEKING SPIRIT

010 IT SUSPECTS IT NEEDS SOMETHING MORE TO BE FULFILLED

011 SO IT BEGINS TO SEARCH FOR WEIGHTIER THINGS TO COLLECT

012 HEAVIER THOUGHTS

013 HEAVIER CONCEPTS

014 WHEN IT FINDS THEM IT PICKS THEM UP AND CARRIES THEM

015 EVENTUALLY REALIZING THIS IS NOT MAKING THINGS EASIER

015 THE SPIRIT IS FINALLY CRUSHED BY THE WEIGHT OF IT ALL

016 IT’S WORLD IS UTTERLY DESTROYED

017 GOTO 001

Tri-state Area

A staple of religious thought as well as of psychology is the idea that we as individuals are made up of multiple parts. Spirit and ego; soul and id; body and mind. Is there any truth to this? Are we one thing or many things?

At the most rarified level we are simply Consciousness. Basic awareness as a manifestation of the Great Spirit.

We also hear the word “soul” thrown around but only rarely defined in a concise way. I have come to see the soul as the programming that controls our interaction with the outer world. It is a thing that is built over time. It will endure if we reinforce it. It will fade if we do not. It encompasses the emotional level that we may refer to as our heart. It is our self beyond the intellect. Revealed most dramatically in life or death situations like when a soldier throws himself onto a grenade without thinking to save his comrades at the cost of his own life. Or more subtly by the way a person acts (and more importantly reacts) in their dreams.

Another place where raw souls can be seen is in those with dementia. What is encountered is the residual “auto-pilot” that was left behind when the conscious entity began to move on to other realities.

So what happens to your soul after you die? If you are what has been described as Enlightened, the soul will dissipate with the body. If not, the soul will remain because you are still invested in an identity. This will cause your unconscious to create yet another body and another world around what you think is you.

You will lose your body. You can lose your soul.

But you can never lose your Spirit.

Not Dead But Dreaming

Imagine this weird situation.

You become (or perhaps always have been?) aware of yourself. Either you have no memory of existing before this or you are unable to understand what those memories are. (No language? No brain?)

Sooner or later you become aware that things can change. Things can begin and end. You experience what you will someday refer to as “time”. Your very limitlessness creates your limitedness. The existence of Nothing brings Something in.

Well, well. Isn’t this interesting? You lean in for a closer look…

Now imagine that you discover a nearby object. Later, you encounter the object again and again. It becomes familiar. You discover that it responds to your will. It becomes… yours.

Time passes. You continue to find new things to incorporate. Hands and feet. A voice. A body. Emotions and thoughts. An outlook. An understanding. Indeed, a world.

And over time, you not only identify with this world. You identify as this world. You are no longer simple awareness. You are that awareness plus the things you are aware of in a totally unique combination.

Weird, huh?

So you get used to this situation. You become involved. You may like it. You may not. Likely a little of both. Eventually, at the appointed time you get to the end of the story. You back away from the table and stop playing this game.

The experience stops. Your world dies. No more body, no more senses. No more relationships. No brain, no memories. Just…


You become (or perhaps always have been?) aware of yourself. Either you have no memory of existing before this or you are unable to understand what those memories are…

Beholder

“You can’t judge a book by it’s cover.”

Bullshit. The cover is very specifically designed to communicate to the reader what to expect to see upon the pages within. The title; the author; the blurb on the front cover. The description and the testimonials on the back. The illustrations and even the overall color scheme are all carefully chosen to tell you as much as possible about what lies within.

There is no better way to judge an unread book than by looking at it’s cover.

That goes the same for people. Beautiful people are beautiful inside in the same way that ugly people are ugly inside.

I imagine some of my readers are losing their shit over that last statement but please read on and allow me to explain.

Certainly one cannot learn much about another with but a cursory glance. But any person’s true character is always on display presuming the beholder is capable of truly assessing it. Whether through thoughtful observance or simple intuition, our “physical” form is our true “spiritual” form.

It has been said that the eyes are the windows to the soul and that is literally true.

That soul exists outside of time. With practice and insight, one can learn to simultaneously see what a person was like when they were young as well as what they will be like when they are old.

A human being when viewed from the fifth dimension looks like a serpent due this fourth dimensional aspect.

The so-called “spirit world” is not some nebulous, airy-fairy place where the “ancestors” live after they died (Like that any makes sense!) and where we will all will go to live after we die.

Wake-up sleepwalkers! Heaven and hell are right here, right now. It is you that creates your reality. You are your ancestors. This is the spirit world. And it is every bit as beautiful or as ugly as you are.

You are what you are.

And your true nature is written on your face for all to see.

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