Another Choice

Our human density

Human activities are distributed in two main fields of experience.

There are those activities that accept and revolve around the absolute reality of the stages of life, from conception to death.

They are those that seek to regulate, for the relative welfare of the largest number, the energetic needs and expenses of all members of the group, whichever it may be.

And there are all those activities which, faced with the inevitability of the death of the body, seek to emancipate us from it, at least partially, by exploring and developing the energies which are not physical - although they may seem to depend of the physical instruments in order to be apprehended.

Thus the arts, the sciences, the philosophies, the religions, have formed.

And even though the action of death reduces all we have ever been, felt, perceived, lived and willed to a phenomenon of destruction and decomposition that is purely and absolutely final and irreversible, yet we do seem, at times, to have access, through some of these energetic activities which are not exclusively devoted to the maintenance and management of the physical needs and expenses, to other planes of experience.

However we remain unable to isolate any one element of their reality so as to prove their independent existence.

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We are in all our choices confronted with death; that is, the certainty that death shall come determines each of our choices.

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