Ownership

In a way Deborah Ellis is correct, and we really do not own anything. That really is behind the radical, pure altruism and theological collectivism of Eastern religion. We are nothing, we own nothing, we are mere Maya transitoriness, a gossamer appendage to the divine One that is inscrutable, unknowable, ineffable, indivisible, unchanging, eternal and immutable.

But then my Mavellonialist metaphysical objecting kicks in. We are individual. We are real. We are angels, at our best when developed, spitting images of our divine parents. We own things, we own our life mission, we own our consciousness that is good, real, indivisible and wholesome. We own our divinely mandated journey to make something of the self must as the oak seek grows into the mighty Aristotelian tree. We own this and are enjoined by the Higher Power to take a lasting interest in and resourceful management of what we own and what we are.