Do we have souls?

[Starboard Tack]

77. That's fine but I don't really see it as a path.

More of a concept that came to me in first grade. A boy in my class died and we had two minutes of silence in my school to remember him. I had no concept of death prior to that, but I'll always remember those two minutes. As a five year old, I did know about dreams. I had them every night and was fascinated by them. I came to the conclusion that, if I could dream of other people, then they could dream of me and consequently I could dream of them dreaming of me dreaming of them and so on, ad infinitum. That's how I dealt with death at the age of five and it stuck. The dream changed. Even when I explored the existence, or possible existence of God, I saw it as a dream. We were all in God's dream, and by the same token, God was in our dreams. This evolved into a chicken and egg conundrum for me until I realized that there wasn't a first or last. Everything is simultaneous. Therefore God is purely an invention on our part, because we demand a finite world. A world with beginnings and endings. A world ruled by this thing we call time. We are obsessed with it and religions cash in on that obsession, by offering rewards and punishments based on timely accomplishments.