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5-18-03
WERE WE WATERMELONISTS?
Blues singer Cousin Joe says in one
of his songs, "Some people believe in reincarnation, I say when
you're dead you're done."
I don't think so. Observation of this life teaches me that life goes on
in an endless cycle. Why should the spiritual level be any different?
That doesn't mean I believe in reincarnation. I am not sure about it.
Neither is anyone else. People can get adamant about things they know
nothing about and the elementary truth is that no one knows what happens
to our life force when we die.
On this day one year in my journal I told about sitting up in the bed
eating watermelon with my girlfriend. She asked, "Do you think we
knew each other in other lives?" I said, "Yes, we were
watermelonists. We prepared bowls of watermelon for a wealthy man,
taking out the seeds and cutting them into bite-sized portions,: She
asked, "Why didn't he just buy seedless watermelons?"
Silly talk sometimes has truth in it. The likely truth here is that if
we live many lives, this life is probably similar to the others. It
takes us a long time to learn. Twain said that was the strongest
argument for reincarnation -- that more than one life is needed to learn
the things we need to know.
Our learning tends to be sequential. One learning is rooted in another
and we keep building them up like bricks in a building.
So...maybe I was a watermelonist. Somewhere along the path I picked up a
fondness for the taste. Anyone who goes through that seed routine must
really like them.
Maybe life down here on the physical plane is a one-shot deal and our
future existence is all spiritual. I don't really know and don't care
because I figure the Creator is smart enough to work all that stuff out.
I do hope there are watermelons wherever I wind up. If not real
watermelons, maybe we will have such a strong power of consciousness we
can call up the taste of watermelong at will. Wouldn't it be great to be
able to enjoy watermelons without it dripping off your chin and
swallowing a few seeds?
Who knows, maybe I will return to my old profession as a watermelonist
and prepare your portions for you. If being a watermelonist was good
enough for one life surely it's good enough for another.
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This column should not be reproduced in hard copy without permission.
Other writings by Dalton Roberts are available at www.daltonroberts.com
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