I am finally home,
Pinch the skin,
Hold my breath,
To find out what we are,
I follow you my love,
In the night,
"But you see after this event called life,
If you go back to unconsciousness,
You go back to where you were before you started,
And since there can’t be any experience of non-experience,
Obviously,
Any next “I” that comes up,
In fact all next “I”s that come up are you,
Only since “I” is an experience of centrality,
You don’t experience yourself as multi-centred,
You experience yourself as a particular centre,
Because the universe, although it is multi-centred,
Each centre is experienced uniquely,
So what you might roughly expect is this,
That after you die,
The next thing you know,
Is that you are (without the slightest memory of whatever happened before),
You repeat the same sort of experience you had when you were born,
As somebody else being born,
There has to be someone around,
I’m merely saying that the experience of being “I” goes on,
Even if there’s an interval of several billion years,
It makes no difference whatsoever,
Supposing the human race was wiped off the planet,
And it took that much time for it to reappear,
Or any living creature,
That would make no difference to this phenomena,
So, let me repeat;
Since there is no possibility of a non-experience,
There are always experiences coming up,
And each one of them is you,"
credits
from Apophenia - EP,
released September 29, 2016
Speech excerpt by Alan Watts. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
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