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How the soul was forgotten One day not so long ago, two medicos met. "Let's write a book about people's health," one of them suggested. The other agreed but was thoughtful. "What do we do about the soul?" he asked. "What do we write about it? About this soul?" "Let's just ignore it!" his collegue said. "We'll never figure it out anyway." "Ok." They wrote the book and they excluded the soul. You couldn't read about it. There was a dictionary at the end of the book and the word "soul" wasn't even listed. No, instead they wrote the book in such a way so that everything having to do with man's health was explained with physics and biology. Anything, they said, which could happen to a body was explained by material circumstances. The book was distributed and read. New doctors studied it carefully and believed that the book was true. They read about man's health and they couldn't find any mention of the soul. They came to a conclusion: the soul has nothing to do with man's condition. Some of them even said that there is no soul! This made the doctors sad inside. They got to read about how they themselves didn't exist! They grieved for their own soul. Some of them never stopped mourning. Many of them became surprisingly tired. Very, very tired. Now some serious problems came about. The doctors were supposed to help people getting better and they were told not to care about souls. They were only to look for physical explination to illness. People didn't like this. It took some time, but the doctors did eventually grow such a bad reputation that people started to feel uncomfortable about the idea of visiting them. And.... Tunedal 28 jan 2005
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