Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01188)

>>JS
>>You have lost me here.  No bodies, however we
>>want to define them, have "independent existences."
>>
>Jerry:
>
>Wanna Bet?

	I think we have a semantics problem.  I am
not referring to "independent" as in "external" but
rather as in not needing anything else to survive.  As
far as I am concerned, all "bodies" on all planes, can
only exist if they are infilled with a consciousness.  In
other words, an objective body has to have a subjective
self within it.  JHE was implying that after we die, we
will receive a body (kama-rupa) that was either standing
around waiting for us, or made by someone at that instant
in time just for us to inhabit, and until we enter it, it is
entirely independent of us.  I don't buy that.  Besides,
technically no living thing can ever be "independent"
as all living things must depend on something (food,
energy, communication, whatever).

	Jerry S.
	Member, TI