Spirit vs. the Material
I believe it was the group 'The Police" who wrote about us being spirits in the material world.
In terms of Immortal Obsession, Christian is a vampire who continually wrestles with his essence as a vampire. A part of his world includes those around him. The other Parisian vampires, his best friend Michel and his mortal lover Josette. He still loves her in the present day, which got me thinking...
Does love transcend time and space? Can you love someone forever? Do our feelings travel through time with us, or do we forget lifetime to lifetime? Or maybe it is both. Then there is grief, anguish, and hate? Can these emotions carry forth in us from lifetime to lifetime? How does this impact on our present existence and the decisions we make for ourselves.
I frame this question in terms of vampires; the once human beings who have been resurrected into something immortal. What about us? Are we are spiritual beings who exist in physical form on this plane. Do we assume a physical body when we come down to earth and then we have to manage it, as well as the emotional realm that accompanies the physical world?
Do we forget that the physical is just that? Something organic and finite, perishable and fragile, temporal and ultimately gone. Is our true essence truly spirit that has travelled through time on a journey through numerous physical incarnations? What makes up the true "us" that we carry from life to life? I think about these questions as I write about vampires but also in terms of my own existence here on earth.
I observe that vampires travel through time but they must grow and adapt to the changing physical environment around them. We must also grow and change from lifetime to lifetime.
Do we recognize those we have loved from our past in the present? Despite changes in our physical appearance can we look into some one's eyes and recognize a kindred spirit, an enemy from the past, a former lover? I believe it is possible and in those moments we touch the divine, a power greater than ourselves; the place we all come from and return to when our work here is finished.
Vampires experience death only once and then they move forward through time. We are one being who travels forward through numerous lifetimes. We forget, return, live, learn and then leave again. Christian is still fraught with such mixed emotions about his past decisions, decisions he cannot change, people who are lost to him forever. All he has to hold onto is a love that both sustains him and pains him now.
In terms of Immortal Obsession, Christian is a vampire who continually wrestles with his essence as a vampire. A part of his world includes those around him. The other Parisian vampires, his best friend Michel and his mortal lover Josette. He still loves her in the present day, which got me thinking...
Does love transcend time and space? Can you love someone forever? Do our feelings travel through time with us, or do we forget lifetime to lifetime? Or maybe it is both. Then there is grief, anguish, and hate? Can these emotions carry forth in us from lifetime to lifetime? How does this impact on our present existence and the decisions we make for ourselves.
I frame this question in terms of vampires; the once human beings who have been resurrected into something immortal. What about us? Are we are spiritual beings who exist in physical form on this plane. Do we assume a physical body when we come down to earth and then we have to manage it, as well as the emotional realm that accompanies the physical world?
Do we forget that the physical is just that? Something organic and finite, perishable and fragile, temporal and ultimately gone. Is our true essence truly spirit that has travelled through time on a journey through numerous physical incarnations? What makes up the true "us" that we carry from life to life? I think about these questions as I write about vampires but also in terms of my own existence here on earth.
I observe that vampires travel through time but they must grow and adapt to the changing physical environment around them. We must also grow and change from lifetime to lifetime.
Do we recognize those we have loved from our past in the present? Despite changes in our physical appearance can we look into some one's eyes and recognize a kindred spirit, an enemy from the past, a former lover? I believe it is possible and in those moments we touch the divine, a power greater than ourselves; the place we all come from and return to when our work here is finished.
Vampires experience death only once and then they move forward through time. We are one being who travels forward through numerous lifetimes. We forget, return, live, learn and then leave again. Christian is still fraught with such mixed emotions about his past decisions, decisions he cannot change, people who are lost to him forever. All he has to hold onto is a love that both sustains him and pains him now.
Labels: love, reincarnation, Spirit, vampires
posted by Denise K. Rago at 6:49 AM
2 Comments:
Another thought-provoking post, Denise. I have, several times in my life, met people and felt a vague recognition, like I've already known them from some other time. It's a karmic feeling, hard to describe.
Thank you Rita. Yes, it is a hard feeling to describe and harder to capture on paper or a canvas, but we keep on trying.
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