Players

[poliphilo]

I think Spirit is like clear, untainted water poured out into earthen vessels.

Earthen vessels- that's Biblical innit?

I think this world is an experiment.

And not to be taken entirely seriously.

I like Shakespeare's insight- the one he keeps coming back to- "all the world's a stage/ and all the men and women merely players."

We are here to try on different roles. To find out what can be done with a certain set of genes and social circumstances.

Why?

Well, why not? Perhaps for no better reason than that it's an interesting thing to do.

Between lives we are subject to the judgement of our peers. They are not unkind. They will have made the same mistakes themselves.

Is this experiment devised by God? I think not. I hate hierarchy. I think the only God or Goddess that exists is Spirit- omnipresent, unstructured, playful- and that we're It.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A very pleasant idea.

I wonder whether children may not sometimes have vestigial memories of the place that they've come from.

Or as Wordsworth put it..

"Not in utter nakedness,
Nor in entire forgetfulness
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From Heaven which is our home."

[manny-script.livejournal.com]

I am firmly agnostic about whether we have some existence before/after/ beyond the current life span. I neither believe nor disbelieve. I do know that the image of a previous life works well to explain instant connections I have felt with people I have just met.

I also neither believe nor disbelieve the idea of genetic memory - though it works as an explanantion for attractions I have felt to places and cultural values that were part of my ancestors' lives.

My guess is that we have a much wider understanding than we access as adults - having been trained away from certain kinds of perception - and this is one reason I enjoy being around children. My own kids taught me so much about how to perceive the world. They showed me the folly of approaching new experiences from the standpoint of what can't be true and reawakened in me the sense of wonder and magic that I have never reforgotten (nor, I'm proud to say, have they). They are now at the point in their lives where they are starting to have their own kids and I get to refresh the wide-eyed newness yet again.