Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
WE ARE BYPRODUCTS
◦ We are byproducts of those who produced us. Composed of their DNA, RNA, at least.
◦ But might not there be more?
◦ Might not aspects of their spirits saturate our souls? If DNA/RNA be matter, are not there any spiritual analogues?
◦ Are we not also beneficiaries of our ancestries’ spirits as we are byproducts of their matter?
◦ Ancient Egyptians-ancient Ethiopians recognized a ka or universal spirit, and a ba or individual spirit in each person.
◦ I confess that I do not know the answer to the question posed.
◦ But, as I think about striating rocks, merging stars, evolution, natural phenomena including the mystery of ourselves , I am impelled to inquire of you!
◦ Even so, I am intrigued with the possibilities of anthropological recognizance that might arise from 2020 dedicated spiritual investigations of this matter and spirit nascent in mankind.