For The Worth Of It: My Soul

I was told, a demand was made on me in fact, in the most subtle of ways, that I should develop my spiritual self. Well, a 60+ year test of religion had not done it for me. 

As an artist obsessed, in a way, with reality--that is humans and their world--and 'object-ness', the 'being' of objects, if you will, I started the search for my soul. 

I looked for an opposite alternative definition. You know, defining 'something-ness' in terms of 'nothing-ness', defining 'white' in terms of 'black'.

So my search for my 'soul-being', as existing as opposite, say, the corporeal -body', a state outside of time and space, the first attribute of understanding and finding this elusive component of my own being was to negate both, the states of 'time and space' had to go. Therefore, I stopped having a workable, practical definition, for 'time' and 'space'. in other words, I no longer believed in either. In practice, mostly, I still function within conventions; but, introspectively, I do not believe in either. This practice makes existence in an alternative reality rather like what I and you probably experience naturally for about a quarter of our lives in this world: dreams. Interestingly is facilitate 'travel' in time as infinite 'space' possible.

Oddly, this conceptualization: no longer having a workable definition for either 'space or time', did something to my thinking about my soul: Objectification. 

Oddly, counter-intuitively, I began to think of my soul not as some abstract, ethereal 'ghost' thing, but rather, as a tangible object. My search so far seems to have, penultimately perhaps, defined my 'soul' as an object. 'Object' that very thing that exists for us, in time...and, space.

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[DAVE ROY]

A LOT OF RELGIOUS PEOPLE SEEM TO BE ARROGANT,"BETTER THAN THOU,LACK EMPATHY,BELIEVE IN THE WINNER TAKE ALL SYSTEM, AND ARE A BUNCH OF LYING HYPOCRITES

I PREFER TO PRACTICE MY RELIGION FROM WITHIN

[Shirleyanne]

Time: April 16, 2010. Space: Winslow High School.
Happy Birthday.
SRL

[Anne Carillo]

Right Understanding, Right Pupose, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood,Right Endedeavor, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.

Henry; your art aspires to eliminate Samsara.

I aspire. It may take a few more life cycles.