Wednesday, March 09, 2005

On Gravedigging

Do I feel any sense of reverence when burying a deceased person’s remains? No, I am disposing of toxic waste. I am burying a carcass that has been pumped full of chemicals and sealed within two containers. The burial site is a construction site intended to protect the groundwater from contamination by the slow seepage of chemicals and bodily fluids. Is it not the occultist’s belief that the body itself is just a container for the spirit? That the body dies and the spirit moves on? Then why all the fuss over the disposition of the body, which was just a vehicle that allowed the spirit to go to the grocery store, whorehouse and casino?