Another Choice

Energy and dependency

Whether or not we believe that the individual consciousness, or its sense of being, continue after the death of the material body or already were before its birth and formation, whether or not we believe that other planes, other states, other worlds may shelter and nourish some form of individualized consciousness, our passage into and away from this world which alone we know at present, is characterized by our total dependency.

If indeed we cannot really explain to ourselves, nor even precisely perceive, the differences in the intensity and the presence accompanying the arrival of the newcomers into this world, what is certain and unvarying is the fact that each one of us at this stage of our experience depends entirely on others for the birth and formation of this habitation that our physical and material body is.

Similarly, when death causes all our corporeal functions to cease and only our remains are left, we must even then rely upon others to look after them one way or another.

Whatever may be our personal concern and wish to leave everything in order, we have no means to ensure it physically. We are forced to leave this burden or this chore to others.

And further, we discover physically our dependency on energy.

The capital of energy at the disposal of our organism is so reduced that it must constantly be replenished by a new input, a new infusion.

It is through this first need and necessity that we begin to relate to the environment.

Thereafter we gradually discover the different sources of energy, its different modes of action, its different behaviors and the different movements it requires or necessitates on our part.

We become accustomed to its passages through the body.

Hunger, thirst, the need for activity or for sleep, the sexual need.

Some of its passages alter the body more tangibly and visibly even as they stir and mobilize a more intense emotional engagement: so it is with the sexual desire, by which the penis hardens

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