Where do you go when you die?
To that Job Centre up in the sky.
Obvious, when you think about it. Yes, the Hindus got it right - for all the wrong reasons - Reincarnation.
Just because you've finished one job here on earth, it don't mean you can just swan around up there for eternity, living on heavenly benefits.
No, I'll bet you have to sign-on at that great Job Centre in the sky, where they find you another job down here.
Maybe you get a couple of weeks holiday first. Or perhaps, if you had a bad time down here, you get put on the celestial- sick for a bit. Even then, you might be expected to do a bit of ghost work: a spell of light-haunting... that sort of thing. But I can't see you being allowed to just sit on your bum on a cloud for all eternity.
It just don't work like that.
Maybe if you've done a good job down here you get promotion (like the Hindu caste system) or if you haven't...
What sort of work you lookin' for mate?
Well, I was an Untouchable last time - how about a Brahmin?
A Brahmin - You kiddin' mate. With your past record. Not a chance. I could get you an Outcaste or, at a push, a Vadra - but I'd be putting my job on the line.
Tell you what: How about a complete change? There's a shortage of souls in Africa: millions of babies being born out there, we can hardly keep up with it. Now, I could do you a nice Rwanda - or how about Etheopia? If we could find you the right gene-pool you could end up an Olympic runner?
No? Just a thought. Well what about a spell in China. You'd have to be male of course. You know what they're like on this population thing. Look, I'll keep you away from Beijing - all that smog it's a disgrace that's what it is; What with that and global warming - I tell you: If you humans can't look after the planet better than that, we'll take it off you.
Or imagine a banker turning up:
Right mate, now what can we sort out for you?
Well, I was a merchant banker in London for forty years, so with my experience something on the New York Stock Exchange - or Tokyo, at a push.
You just don't get it mate, do you? The idea is for you to get work-experience. In other words: something different from what you done before. In that way your soul can develop - and in your case, a lot of development is called for.
Now, if you fancy a change of sex...I've got just the thing for you: Palestine. They aren't half poppin' em out in them refugee camps. You wouldn't think so, would you, not with all that deprivation and food shortages. But they are. It's all we can do to keep up with a supply of suitable souls. Also, being born a female will give you an idea what it's like to be a woman in the third world. Now that will really be a steep learning curve. Do the old soul a power of good.
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By the way, Anna, that owl was stone. You never saw it fly away, did you?
George
Tell you what: How about a complete change? There's a shortage of souls in Africa: millions of babies being born out there, we can hardly keep up with it. Now, I could do you a nice Rwanda - or how about Etheopia? If we could find you the right gene-pool you could end up an Olympic runner?
No? Just a thought. Well what about a spell in China. You'd have to be male of course. You know what they're like on this population thing. Look, I'll keep you away from Beijing - all that smog it's a disgrace that's what it is; What with that and global warming - I tell you: If you humans can't look after the planet better than that, we'll take it off you.
Or imagine a banker turning up:
Right mate, now what can we sort out for you?
Well, I was a merchant banker in London for forty years, so with my experience something on the New York Stock Exchange - or Tokyo, at a push.
You just don't get it mate, do you? The idea is for you to get work-experience. In other words: something different from what you done before. In that way your soul can develop - and in your case, a lot of development is called for.
Now, if you fancy a change of sex...I've got just the thing for you: Palestine. They aren't half poppin' em out in them refugee camps. You wouldn't think so, would you, not with all that deprivation and food shortages. But they are. It's all we can do to keep up with a supply of suitable souls. Also, being born a female will give you an idea what it's like to be a woman in the third world. Now that will really be a steep learning curve. Do the old soul a power of good.
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By the way, Anna, that owl was stone. You never saw it fly away, did you?
George
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