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CAPTAIN-CAPSLOCK-PHD β Reincarnation part 2: Dialogue
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SUPER late to the party on this one, but I JUST ran across this comic and got a chill.
When I was a child, that's always what I envisioned the "soul" as looking like. I had no sense of scale and I don't know where it was located (or if I did I can't remember), but I always envisioned a dark gray stone too.
I'm a little freaked out right now. Dunno why.
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I always imagined my soul as a vine growing from the small of my back to the base of my neck, right in front of my spine. Mine never spoke though. XD
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since always I have been able to 'feel' my own brain, I know that is impossible since brains don't have the correct sensory equipment to feel anything but from very young I saw it as if my head had a hard, smooth stone inside it surrounded by very dense mist that was constantly moving, the thinking part of me was the mist and the rock was me but not me, I guess a subconscious of sorts.Β
it is a very interesting concept that some people naturally manifest imaginary representations of spirits without much prompting to do so, I guess it could just be a human thing thoughΒ
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Sounds to me like you've just became self aware at this point.
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Wow, really?
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I feel creepy 'cause I'm going through like everything of yours, but, uh...
I had a very similar inner dialogue when I was about 3 years old. I had woken up in my bed one day and this is literally my very first memory and I had said "Wow. I exist. I'm awake."
It's a powerful memory of mine because I was never quite sure of what I meant because it just felt like I was saying it like "Oh, here I am again" like I had done it before - to exist.
I find it so interesting to find someone else like me in the world. We're so different, but the same at the core.
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WOW.
Just WOW.
That... I needed to hear that, thank you.
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I'm envious in a good way that you're able to still remember moments like the gray blob surrounding your spine; moments that you were knew even though, "Nobody told me about this stuff. I just came up with it on my own." Thanks in great part to society's recent polarization of religion and science, I've had a lot of soul-searching in recent years, and it annoys me to no end that there's no way to test to see what I would be like without religion. Well, maybe there's the Tom-n-Jerry cartoon method of amnesia allowing a person to revert to their default personality, but I'm pretty sure neither physicians nor priests would recommend that method. LOL Your phrasing on coming up with something on your own is probably the most moving part about this strip.
Thanks for creating these vertical cartoon-and-text strips of yours. I have the sense that your reincarnation is in his/her 90s in terms of maturity. Keep up the good work.
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I'm really appreciating these long comments. They leave lots of room for discussion.
This is not my earliest memory. When I was about 11 months old my family went to a beach in the fall and put me on a washed-up log. My older sister sat down in front of me and we began making sand castles on the wood. I remember how her voice sounded when she sighed and how gloomy the overcast day was.
I still feel the spine-thing, but I can no longer talk to it (at least I don't think I can.) I will still get the feeling of "You should do something very specific that you wouldn't think up on your own" now and then. When I listen to it, something pretty remarkable oftentimes happens.
I was raised in an agnostic household. My only understanding of religion is that everyone around me seemed to have it and I was somehow "strange" for not having it. I'm very grateful for growing up this way since I feel that I'm not colored by the effects religion can have on a developing mind.
The best thing I can think of to give yourself "religious amnesia" is to study very old history and the literature those ancient societies created. I would suggest starting with:
[link] the newest (and best) translation of Gilgamesh
[link] The Hero with a Thousand Faces
[link] The Power of Myth
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Religious amnesia? Well said!
I admit I'm somewhat familiar with both the Gilgamesh saga and Campbell's works, but I'd be lying to you if I said I had actually read through them in the way that I look through a textbook or a novel. (Ironically, I have actually read the entire Bible through, which has resolved some confusion while raising other possibilities. ex. If folks could turn sticks to snakes, why can't we do that NOW?)
Oddly, I still find fiction and artwork involving pagan elements fascinating. Yet, when I sit down and try to draw or write fiction involving such elements as goat horns or numerology, I can tell there's usually a mental obstacle that... how to put it... acts like a dimmer switch which turns down my creativity and productivity. Some artists would say I'm just another poor repressed Jesus-worshiper who hobbles himself with unnecessary guilt even when it comes to artwork. Other artists might say that dimmer switch is God's way of reminding me not to push his buttons by messing around with the Thou Shalt Not Make Or Worship Idols rule. Either version is not exactly inspiring.
Regarding Campbell's works, they're already on my list of books/films/plays I need to absorb before I die. i.e. You chose well.
A major reservation about my personal religious amnesia project is that when it comes to searching through the past for clues regarding the present, I'll admit I rather sabotage myself. Namely, not to sound depressingly skeptical of everything and everyone, but the more history I learn, the more I'm reminded of the saying about history being written by the victors. I hate that particular saying, too. I figure now matter how far back into history I go or how good my instruments are at measuring divine evidence, if there IS a God then he/she will always keep absolute proof of his/her existence a teeny bit ahead of the latest high-tech tools. (Otherwise the whole faith/belief part of religion goes out the window.)
Again, sorry for rambling. It's not often I get to stretch my thought processes like this. Thank you. (Not to apply stereotypes, but the pastors I've known wouldn't know the Hadron Collider from a Van de Graaf generator, and too many "intelligent" scientists can get all snobby and close-minded whenever the topic of how to measure God is brought up.
Thanks again. You're good at using the written word in a way that unlocks other people's mental obstacles. (Heck, the introversion how-to guide in and of itself is very useful!)
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My, that does sound rather ominous. 
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I guess it always seemed like a stone to be because it's your real self, and therefore much more "solid" and dependable than your present fleshy self.
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That actually makes sense to me. For me personally a soul has always presented itself as...well actually the stereotype of a soul, pale gas-like substance.
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Maybe it just has different representations for different people.
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I'm a little dumbfounded, because I've always imagined souls with that same size and shape that you've illustrated - oval shapes in the torso, by the spine. (I always pictured them as colorful, though, and bright - giving off light.)
I'm just shocked to see something I thought had developed in my mind mirrored in someone else's.
This is a very interesting series!
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Are you serious??
Wow, this is... this is amazing!!
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I am 100% serious... Like AmbreeChristineSkye, I wouldn't have pictured them as solid as stones - more like disks, flexible but very durable. And exactly the same size, shape, and placement as what you've illustrated.
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FUCK this is mind-blowing!
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Your thoughts made me remember about a famous philosopher, Kant, who said "Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me"...
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Wow! That's amazing, I find this really interesting!
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Though I believe in god and am a "christian" or what not, I don't hate those who don't and I don't push my "religion" onto others. I love the fact to be able to see how others think and what their beliefs are. 
Thanks for putting these up~ 
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Thank you for this comment. Explaining vague, confusing topics in easy-to-understand formats is what I strive to do.
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You're welcome~
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i would think it ment that meant you would be awake until the end of the life you are curently living, then go back to sleep.
when i was a kid (im still just 13 so i remember a lot from my childhood) i would talk to myself and my twin sister a lot and aprently as kids me and my twin could do some pritty freaky stuff, like "read" minds, know stuff we had no way of knowing, and when i was about six i told my mom all about this other life i had had, i can still remember bits and pieces of what i said, but not why i said it. my sister did the same thing a few times to. i have always wondered about it...
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You know, I never thought of that. It makes a lot of sense.
WOW!! I really wish you and your sister could remember more - that sounds like an AMAZING window into the soul.
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it was pritty cool 
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Thank you!
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You're welcome!
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