Sunday, December 23, 2007

Shaman, Soul & Child Abuse

In the MidEast, Shamans partake in sectarian conflicts by assisting in the recruitment of suicide bombers. They tell young men that if they successfully complete their task their soul will be rewarded in a heavenly paradise where beautiful maidens will give them sexual satisfaction. Such a reward would require the soul to have the bodily parts necessary for the sex act including a brain and nervous system capable of experiencing orgasms. As the brain contains the memory traces of all life experiences it also is necessary if a soul is to maintain a person's individual identity. But as we now know, when the body dies, the brain dies and with it all memories are lost. Hence the soul has no material existence outside of the imagination.

No souls with body parts have ever been discovered. If they existed, one such soul for each human who had ever lived and died since the beginning of civilization, the number of such souls would be tremendous. Were this the way souls were constructed the crowding of souls would be a phenomenon worse than the crowding in New York's Times Square on New Years Eve. The space required to hold them all would be greater than all the space on planet earth. No such large cosmic entity has been seen in the astronautical search of space. Thus it becomes obvious that the concept of a soul is simply a figment of the imagination.

Oblivion is a hard sell so shamans console persons approaching death with pictures of a happy afterlife in a wonderful garden of Eden. They describe this with stories from the fables and fairy tales from their own particular bibles. The concept of soul was invented by our ancient ancestors to calm the fears of death and to maintain the concept and value of an individual's identity and existence.

And thus the shaman's promise to young suicide bombers is only a lie, and a very vicious form of child abuse that leads to the youngster's suicidal death.

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