[Chorus]
I suspect now for you hard to believe
But honest, this was how things used to be
People pushed back new ideas if contradict establishment
Resist question/reassess, even fresh evidence suggests high time dogma reject
[Spoken 1]
In my time people widely believed consciousness came from the brain. Science was preoccupied with material measurables – wanting to explain life, desire, even love, exclusively in terms of electro-chemistry and matter. Dismissive of everything else.
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[Spoken 2]
In my day most people believed they were the body, and when one died nothing survived. And a human embryo was not a person until after birth – this the key reason termination became a fundamental woman’s right in many parts of the world. What can you do?
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[Spoken 3]
On my planet religions had little to do with promoting spiritual awareness – mostly they functioned to create notions of us and them, often leading to prejudice against other faiths or non-believers, and sometimes causing war between nations. All in the name of God.
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[Spoken 4]
In my childhood Darwinism was taught in classrooms as the proven explanation for life as we knew it. From single celled creatures, by random gene copy mistakes and survival of the fittest, here we are today. No intelligent design, and certainly no soul!
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[Spoken 5]
In my lifetime most of those who spoke of the soul did so in terms of it being something one possessed. As if one were a body with a soul, rather than a soul with a body. ‘My soul’ rather than simply ‘I’ thus the general vernacular. Many preached animals had no soul, what to speak of plants. I know! … How lucky are you to live when you do! I was pretty isolated to be honest.
