In Limbo in This World
Just as the movies can be used a simile for our existence in this world, so I believe can our experience in the womb help us better understand our journey through life.
Most of us believe that we have no memory of our time in the womb, at least in terms of what our brain can recall. On some psychic or spiritual level perhaps we do “remember” aspects of that journey, but it is vague at best.
Some of us like to imagine the next world as a place that will be familiar to us in terms of mutual recognition of old friends & loved ones. But it is certainly possible that such recognition may not include specific recollection of experiences in this life any more than we can recall specific memories from the womb.
From that perspective of our future world, it may seem as if this existence was a mere illusion or a vague state of limbo even as the womb seems to us now.
We tend to imagine that there will be reward and punishment for actions we performed here. But if we are not responsible for our actions here then we have neither reward to anticipate nor punishment to fear, any more than an actor is held responsible to his actions in a movie.
Life in this world seems more and more to me as a movie that is forgotten as soon as “The End” is flashed on the screen, the lights come up, and the illusion is ended before the audience leaves the theater.
Most of us believe that we have no memory of our time in the womb, at least in terms of what our brain can recall. On some psychic or spiritual level perhaps we do “remember” aspects of that journey, but it is vague at best.
Some of us like to imagine the next world as a place that will be familiar to us in terms of mutual recognition of old friends & loved ones. But it is certainly possible that such recognition may not include specific recollection of experiences in this life any more than we can recall specific memories from the womb.
From that perspective of our future world, it may seem as if this existence was a mere illusion or a vague state of limbo even as the womb seems to us now.
We tend to imagine that there will be reward and punishment for actions we performed here. But if we are not responsible for our actions here then we have neither reward to anticipate nor punishment to fear, any more than an actor is held responsible to his actions in a movie.
Life in this world seems more and more to me as a movie that is forgotten as soon as “The End” is flashed on the screen, the lights come up, and the illusion is ended before the audience leaves the theater.
posted by Old Timer at 9:19 PM
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