Short Cut

Peter Marchand tells me that we humans are driven by the fear of not existing, in every part of our mind and body, in every chakra, and in every other way in which hippies, philosophers and doctors each dissect our reality.

This existential fear strikes me as correct since the major religions all purport to solve this problem by spinning fairy tales of life after death.

This I guess is designed to help people alleviate their fears of not existing and thereby enabling them to enjoy their brief existence a little more.

But it doesn’t seem to work too well; most people still seem very concerned about death and therefore awfully attached to people, thoughts and feelings.

This is probably because most adherents don’t truly believe the fairy tales, deep down where it matters.

As in all things, there’s no short-cuts in life or death.