Sometimes I wonder if there isn’t more validity to concepts such as karmic retribution and reincarnation than some of us may believe. The whole reward and punishment dogma pertaining to personal behavior good and bad is the basis for more than one belief system around the world. How much value an individual gives to this cycle is often supposedly a determiner of how you’ll spend your next existence and unless you come to terms with this, and start getting with the existential program you’re doomed to repeat the same futile cycle over and over.
The real questions are “Where are you?” “Where have you been?” and “Where are you going?” Far be it for me to know about anyone else, least of all myself, but there are moments where I feel like I get a small but fleeting glimpse that gives me small but undoubtedly valuable insight to these answers, enough anyway to allow me to connect some of the dots to this mortal coil.
These recent revelatory fragments grabbed my attention when I recently read an article about test rats and one of the more recent studies in which they’ve allowed researchers to help study the human brain and the addiction mechanisms. While I don’t mean to sound either simplistic and or insensitive I had a subdued personal chuckle when I read the term “Alcoholic rats”. At first I said to myself “I certainly know some of those.” Maybe I was even one. In this present life, or maybe even in a past life, figuratively and literally. Then it dawned on me there are all sorts of rats out there in both of those terms. Obese rats, rats addicted to all sorts of substances and behaviors and then there are just plain rats. Rats with rat behaviors, rats with human behaviors. There are humans that work with rats and rats that work with humans. Benefiting themselves and others as well.
It was simply too ironic to ignore.
