This is the beginning of my blog covering my newest creation in literary prose "Total Amnesia".It is a story about an immortal soul - me - who has no recollection of how he got here beyond this temporal life and the free spirit "Espree" who helped me to remember. In this excerpt we are discussing animals and whether they have a soul as we do.
“Is the same true for animals
Espree? Is each animal is a Spirit Trapped in a body?”
“Not
all of them. You see a body does not
need a spirit inhabiting it in order for it to function. A beetle, for instance is just a biological
unit and operates like a robot – the only difference being that the creators of
the gene pattern paid a fee to allow them to use the patented ‘replication’
process. A horse on the other hand
usually is usually animated by a spirit, but unfortunately the spirit is
immersed in a massive body with a simplistic brain. It would be like loading software on a
computer that is 20 years old. The
simple brain of a horse would be the hardware, the mind, the software. Some of the computations will run effectively
on a horse, but only a few simple programs – such as their ability to make
their body run, acquire food and to mate.
Most advance programs will not even run, and for those that do, it is
like watching the ‘hourglass’ on your computer screen tumble over and
over. Try to talk to a horse and their
ability to grasp the concept of language is so slow that they never catch on –
their hardware/software package runs the program so slow that the horse would
literally die of old age before the hourglass stopped tumbling and he began to
comprehend. The spirit inhabiting the
body is so restricted in its perceptions that it gives the appearance of being
rather dull – when in actuality it is simply suppressed by the inability of its
mechanical mind to compute.”
She
smiles. “But if you can get through to a
horse with spiritual communication – such as the ‘telepathy’ you sense between
us – they are no different than you or I.
I love communicating with animals – they don’t have as many computations
running as humans and so the communication is much more pure.
“OK
professor Doolittle.”
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“This is a universe of force, not reason,” she says more to herself than me. Then she motions for me accompany her to the window.
ReplyDelete“Point out something big.” She says looking out the window.
“Why, uh, what for…”
“Just point to something large!”
“OK. OK.”
There’s a big heavy palm tree outside the window. It’s about 50 feet high.
“OK, that tree.”
Almost instantaneously the tree begins to shudder. I hear a grinding, popping sound as the tree pulls up out of the ground, rises in the air and turns upside down! Then it smashes down into the ground, pushing deeper and deeper until only its roots are showing.
Professor Espree turns and looks at me, her eyes flashing with anger.
“This seems to be the only thing you people understand, force, stunts, spectacle, it’s downright exasperating! Why do I have to come across as some kind of supreme being for you to take me seriously?”
I’m still trying to conceive of how she did that. She didn’t even move. There was no squinting like Yoda, no trembling, outstretched arm, nothing.
“Can you teach me how to do that?”
She shakes her head and smiles in resignation.
“That is the easy part Tim. Unfortunately what appears to be quite impossible is my ability to ‘un-teach’ you the things you’ve learned that make you incapable of doing that!”