Be in Life - as you will be after Death!
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Be A Slithery Soul!
01/01/2015
Hello, Everyone,
It's a New Year! How am I going to spend it? I guess there are lots of ways to say it, but the notion that comes to mind at this very moment is "slithery" - as in being impossible to catch. Yup, that is what my resolution for the new year is - to be a "slithery soul" in life as I will probably be in death.
Boy, am I going to have fun "being a slithery soul"; and if I were to have any advice to you, I would advise you to follow suit. Know that when you die, you will probably be a slithery soul because a soul is probably impossible to catch. Most people have not taken the time to speculate about that idea because most people do not see themselves as without a body in an afterlife; and perhaps they are right. I do believe that a soul without a body is a soul without a home. So, I do agree that it is likely that once I have released an old life, I will be onto to taking another life too - in terms of another body.
But what about the interim between my having this body and my getting another? That is what I like to think about - and speculate about; and such speculation is wonderful because it will probably tell me if I should "fear" being set free as a soul.
This morning while on my first walk of the year, I was thinking about all the folks that went down in that Asia Airlines plane that went down a few days ago in ocean waters - somewhere in the vicinity of Indonesia. Never mind why it went down. Suffice it to say, it went down.
Say that I was one of those on that plane that went down. Of course I would have drowned; but given that I have a soul - or am a soul - what would likely have happened? Think about that - and BE FREE!
Being free of a body, my soul would likely be free to wander about - perhaps looking for another body. Maybe my soul would wander underneath the surface of the ocean and find a home in a fish. Who is to say? But what is the likelihood of someone being about deep in an ocean where my soul must be wandering about that someone with a net is just waiting for me - or my soul? What is the likelihood of a St. Peter or a Satan just lurking in the vicinity waiting to catch me and take me to some paradise or dungeon? What do you think? Is it likely that I should fear "being caught" and taken away by some wonderful or nefarious entity?
Personally, I can't imagine my soul being such that it could be caught. Whatever my soul is, I am sure that it operates as a "slithery" object that is free to some extent to go where it will. There probably is no one with a capable net that can catch me as a soul - and take me anywhere - simply because my soul is not a body. Only a body can be caught as such because only a body has the parameters that will allow it to be "caught" - or rescued in any way.
Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe my soul is subject to being caught, but my guess is that it is not so. Perhaps I realized that long, long ago - and that is at least one reason I have been so free in life. As a destined "slithery soul" after I pass from this life - regardless of how I pass - I have simply acted in life as I will probably act in death. I will be free when I die because as a slithery soul, no one can catch me and take me to a paradise or a dungeon. So, why not act in life like it will be in death?
NEVER LIVE LIKE SOMEONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO CATCH ME! PRESTO - FOREVER FREE! - in life as in death!
What, then, is my New Year's Resolution? To continue living in life like the slithery soul I will be in death. I think that is why I love the naked so much in this life - and try to go without clothes as much as I can. Why should I do otherwise? Why should I act in life like I can't act after life? In a manner of speaking, all will be naked after they die - being without a body at all. So why not simply "take advantage" of death - and the prospects after death - and live in life like there is no difference between life in or out of a body?
But watch what you do when you go naked! If you live naked subject to "being caught," then you have negated your entire purpose of going naked. Don't you think? Thus, if you live naked and use that nakedness to "depend" upon someone else, then you can't be a "slithery" soul. Can you? Ah, ha! Be Advised! It is pretty simple, but you have to think about it to make it work. If you go naked only when you are dependent upon another one - as in casual sex outside of intended procreation - then your nakedness is not a "slithery way," but rather just the opposite - and perhaps a trap for an unwary soul! Be Careful!
With that, as one "determined slithery soul," I bid everyone to do what they think is right in 2015; and I will do the same - and continue on a course that I have been following as a "slithery soul" for over 40 years or so. Hey, I have been at this "slithery process" for a whole lot of years - and maybe my whole life. How about you? Practice makes Perfect! Right? For what it's worth, I highly recommend it.
Besides being resolved to continue as a slithery soul, I do intend to write quite a bit too - and most of what I write will end up in the blog section of my writings website - and maybe eventually in a WILD FLOWERS # 2. In 2014, Amazon.com and I compiled an initial WILD FLOWERS book - and I will be trying to share that one in 2015 and beyond; but in store I will be writing additional thoughts that may end in a WILD FLOWERS # 2.
When will I publish that one? When I have enough to comprise a book the size of WILD FLOWERS # 1. Since WILD FLOWERS # 1 topped off at about 300 pages, WILD FLOWERS # 2 will likely do the same. So, however long it takes to write essays (and maybe a few songs) for an additional 300 page book, that is how long it will be before I publish another book. That may take years - or just one year. Time will tell.
As the year begins, however, I have two articles I want to write. One will be called OH, WISDOM, WHERE ART THOU? That will be about my writing an allegory called WISDOM in 1963 - and subsequently losing it. I'd like to go back a bit and investigate why I wrote it in the first place - and perhaps why I lost it. Yes, indeed, I do believe everything has a purpose - and writing and losing WISDOM does have a meaning. I will explore that reason in a blog. My goal is to write that one by mid January.
And then my second article of the year will be one I will call EVERY CREATURE IS AMAZING. I intend on writing that before the end of the month in time for my Dad's 108th birthday - even though Dad has been gone since 1966. Dad was born on January 31st, 1907. He passed on July 7th, 1966 - as victim or otherwise of an auto-pedestrian accident. Dad was the pedestrian. Here one moment - and just like that - gone - or gone on as I like to believe it - to become another "slithery soul" in search for further adventure.
My plan, too, for EVERY CREATURE IS AMAZING is to submit it in a religious column of the local paper - The Laramie Boomerang. Because of writing WILD FLOWERS, The Boomerang has extended an invitation to me to write for the paper now and then - along with other "religious minded" folks of our town. So far, I have written two articles. I hope that offering a different view has been ok for Laramie residents to review; but ok or not, I plan to continue - as long as The Boomerang allows it.
On this New Year's Day, though, it is time to go. I hope you will have as "slithery" a good time in 2015 as I probably will have. Don't take my word for it. Think about it yourself - and maybe, you will realize that no one should be any more captive in life as they will be in death. Just know that no one can be about - or likely can be about - with some kind of net to catch you when you die and take you to some paradise or dungeon; and if it can't happen in death, why let it happen in life?
Have a Good One, Everyone!
BE A SLITHERY SOUL!
Gently,