MrOWO: What would you say if I were to ask you who you are?
JA: Isn’t it quite obvious? I am Jules Arden, a burntout architect living a forlorned life trying to be a swell husband and dad to the four women in my life.
MrOWO: What else? I mean what do you think you are?
JA: Well, I am also a human being, a man with a body and a mind.
MrOWO: Tell me, honestly, are you satisfied with all the answers you have just given me? Your name is just a label that was given to you at birth and you have been conditioned to respond to it when someone calls out to you. You could as well be called a nutty name like mine and you decide to change it half way through your life. Isn’t that the same with your profession? Can you still call yourself an architect if you stopped building houses? It is the same for your role in the family. Your role in a relationship is dependent upon the existence of another, your wife and your children. Look at yourself now. You started out with the body of a baby which is what you would probably have described yourself if I had asked you the same question then. Now you call yourself a man. Do you see that the answers you have given are too transient and do not meet the test of reality which is, that which does not change and is not dependent on the existence of another.
JA: So who am I?
MrOWO: If there is going to be a good life question you are going to be asking yourself, this is probably going to be the most important one. So, who are we? Is it not perceivable that we are more than our physical body. That there is something more than the physical stuff and molecules which we are made up of? I will let the expert Dr V to elaborate.
Dr V: Thank you for the opportunity. Be prepared for this. Keep your mind open. We are not what we take ourselves to be nor are we what we appear to be. We are spirits or consciousness with a body which we take on when we came upon existence on earth.We are spirits linked to the universal consciousness like the wave is linked to the great ocean. Our mind and intellect with our five senses drive our bodies and the spirit is like the petrol in the car. The spirit gives it life. Another example is like the electricity which powers the machinery.
