While awaiting Barium's Bardo revelations, I began to consider my former incarnations here on the wild planet. Watching it is just so primal.
I take great pride in my lowly origins, even lower than the ordinary maggot. As a former shit-eating larva, I do in fact claim a super-rapid ascent through the evolutionary strata of complex organisms. I have done extensive past-life research into my prior odious incarnations and have found this astounding truth. Starting from my introduction into the earth realm as a fecal larva, I transformed into an extremely large and irritating fly, able to viciously bite large sweat-emitting mammals. This resulted in my rather rapid demise from a vigorous fly swat. Next incarnation life as grain-devouring rodent. It was soon dispelled by suffocating poison - terribly painful but quickly liberating. After that I launched deeper into the mammalian realm as a ferocious boar, enabling me to recognize and choose to identify as a predator rather than as helpless prey. Next came a wonderfully deceptive incarnation as a jackal - the key incarnation that caused me to become human. As I remember it, I was tearing out the entrails of a large mammal that our pack had felled. The animal wasn't dead yet and when it looked over in shock, horror and agony at me eating it alive, I looked into its eyes and saw "myself" - not literally but rather another desperately entombed intelligence, just like "myself", the jackal. This caused me to suddenly generate the genuine idea "oh, it's just like me", and this in spite of the fact that the other animal looked nothing like me. That was it - birth of an idea unbound by particularity and able to appreciate something authentically generalized and universal. In other words, I recognized a "universal" - the defining characteristic of our human nature. After this pivotal event, I took a quick series of human incarnations, lowly and serf-like at first but later more confidant and assertive. >From plebeian to patrician was just a couple of incarnations and then wham, I was reborn into 20th century Europe as a "von Graf". Next, of course, I came here into the new world you know so I could learn to relate to the "little" people Now my Jyotish chart shows that I'll be reborn into the deva realms after death, obviously because I still can't tell the difference between purusha and the three guna-s. However, I don't feel so bad because I figure I'll see everybody else here on FFL in that land of bliss, except Barry, since we were all deceived by Mahesh, except him. So aren't you really impressed at my rapid evolution? Maybe I should try and get promoted to a local, divinized logos like the Mormons claim (they say it is the next step). Maybe I could even get twenty dark-eyed virgins, like the sheiks of Arabi. Hmm, ya think? Yep, Emptybill's a-goin' higher. So, choochee coo, you buncha mantra-bound meditators.
