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My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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“[O]uter circumstances call for us to act in a way everyone can understand; and if, in the toils of passion, we do something incomprehensible, that too is, in its own way, understandable. Yet however understandable and self-contained everything seems, this is accompanied by an obscure feeling that it is only half the story. Something is not quite in balance, and a person presses forward, like a tightrope walker, in order not to sway and fall. And as he presses on through life and leaves lived life behind, the life ahead and the life already lived form a wall, and his path in the end resembles the path of a woodworm: no matter how it corkscrews forward or even backward, it always leaves an empty space behind it. And this horrible feeling of a blind, cutoff space behind the fullness of everything, this half that is always missing even when everything is a whole, this is what eventually makes one perceive what one calls the soul.”

“So many things are put out to make it seem as if we’re helpless victims of this crazy Matrix. This is the purpose of such lopsided half-truths as the popular (and for that reason alone, highly dubious) notion that we’re stuck against our will in a ‘soul trap’ or ‘reincarnation trap’ that most people will never escape.”

“El alma del hombre debe estar en constante transformación, porque solo en el cambio reside el crecimiento. Sin embargo, estos cambios pueden oscilar entre lo positivo y lo negativo, lo constructivo y lo destructivo. Por ello, es necesario, cada cierto tiempo, abrir el cofre de nuestra esencia, examinar con honestidad qué merece quedarse y qué debe ser purgado. Pero este acto de revisión no debe hacerse a ciegas; es vital cuestionarnos: ¿es este cambio una verdadera redención, un paso hacia la autenticidad, o simplemente otra máscara en el interminable teatro de la vida? Solo en la honestidad de esa respuesta reside la verdad del alma”