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Few people follow their beliefs to their ultimate

consequences. Why? Could it be because what

they want is comfort, protection from fear, and

assurances of personal survival?

 

If this is your case, if you need the hope of being

eternal, maybe you should not read this.

Beliefs, like crutches, have practical value

for those who can't walk without them.

 

Do you belief there is an X, variously called

God, Consciousness, This, That, The Absolute?

 

No problem! Nothing wrong with that.

 

Do you belief you are it? Yes?

 

Well, that's doubtful. It would be better to say it

dreams that it's you. Would not you say?

Yes, God must be dreaming. Why? It's His only

alibi, otherwise, if awake and omniscient and

omnipotent he must be either a devil or insane.

Would anyone not so, kill with such wanton abandon

and cruel intent by natural disasters children buried

in rubble and left to die alone for hours on end? Yes,

God must be dreaming this wonderful, terrible, blissful

excruciating dream.

 

If you accept this dream metaphor, and by the way

all religious beliefs are metaphors, then let's talk

about the nature of dreams. You of course, know

dreams quite well, you dream every night.

 

Did last night dreams, remember the dreams of the

previous night? Are your dreams like soap operas,

do they pick up were other dreams ended? No.

Each night's dreams are as if you never dreamt before.

Dreams have no memory whatsoever of other dreams.

 

The dream called Pete, or you, will vanish without a

trace after our death. Protein remembers, The Self,

the absolute does not. Certain human lives leave a

residue in culture. We today have a vague memory

of dreams called Buddha, Christ, Caesar, and a few

others. But the aliveness of those dreams is for ever

gone.

 

If you believe it's the Self who incarnates each new

born baby, that is then, the best proof none of your

memories will survive your brain. Each baby has

to learn to be human, if the self had memory it wouldn't

need need to do so. A baby chick doesn't need to be

taught to be a chicken, from birth it can survive on its

own. Everything it needs is wired in its brain, but

you brought no memories with you. You learned

everything, not only about yourself, but about the Self.

 

You are that knowledge, those memories of a

dreamed life as recorded only in protein. A personal

dream can't be eternal, it would be a nightmare it it

were. If you're not ready to see this now, maybe one

day you will.

 

Pete