I’m godfather to a number of twins and I can’t but wonder the kind of conversations they probably had while growing up in their mother’s womb. Which is kind of synonymous with our conversation today about life and death. A Spanish article by Pablo Luis Molinero illustrates thus:
One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”
The other replied: “Why of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will ask later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there’ll be more light than here. Maybe we’ll walk with our legs & eat from our mouths. Maybe we’ll have other senses that we can’t now understand.”
The first replied, “that is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we will not need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover, if there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
The second responded, “Well, I do not know, but certainly we will meet mother and she will take care of us.”
The first said, “Mother? You actually believe in mother? That’s laughable. If mother exists, then where is she now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of her. It is of her that we live. Without her this world would not and could not exist.”
The first said, “Well I do not see her, so it is only logical that she does not exist.”
The second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive her presence, and you can hear her loving voice calling down from above.”
In no distant future, the inevitable happens but unfortunately this comes with great amnesia that erases all the thoughts and arguments in the womb. Everything is learnt afresh and one of the greatest acculturation occurs with society playing a catalyst until yet another Rebirth.
Can you connect the dots and learn from the pattern? Can you see the big picture or would you allow the juvenile hubris and social construct keep you under mental slavery? #RiseAsOne #WeAreTheWorld
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