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But rather than give a gigantic essay on "what is" i'll cut around the odds and ends ("god" basically) and leave it up to you to assume about. I think something of Transcendentalism. In this there is a spiritual body called the "Oversoul." i dont care for that term, sounds a bit cheesy honestly, so i dont use that unless i'm without a better word for it. It is basically, the collection of souls that belong to living beings or beings that have lived before. I dont know the entire Transcendentalist theology so anything past this point i'm making my own thoughts on. We have souls...but i only say "souls" for a lack of a better word for the spiritual side of our being. Not just us, but everything. Animals, plants, the earth, the sky, the universe as we know it. All are forms and faces that we see on this plane of existence. All are part of this mass of souls that really are just one. Here we are individual beings, there we are singular, at peace, and perhaps even divine. "No hell below us," there's no need for people to suffer in everlasting damnation for they are part of this body, and the body cannot exist if it is not whole and together. "Above us only sky," this "body," this "afterlife," doesn't exist on terms that we could comprehend. It's all around us, it's no where near us...... it's not a place. It's a state of being. Right now we live, this is what we call it and defined it as. We can experience things for ourselves and live in our own shoes. But when we die... maybe even when we sleep... this thing we have... this "soul" becomes one again with the rest. like a drop of water back into the ocean.
as to a purpose to this body, to the "oversoul," some say that it grows with each person who enters back into it and the experience of their life and the knowledge they've gained contributes to the whole. i dont know. right now my concern is not of the purpose.
no matter the purpose, it brings into perspective that we are not here to be judged. Void of a heaven and hell, we are left with a very interesting situation. Sin holds no weight, nor does any good that we do. I think that there is something else... other than "do this or else" that keeps us from dropping concern for right or wrong. but that is a different subject... |
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