Is guilt supernatural?
the metaphysical origin of guilt
I think Millers definition of guilt, “ as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and wrong in the universe,” is really interesting. I had never thought of guilt in that kind of light before. It really makes you open your mind and expand upon that definition. We don’t really question guilt. It is just us feeling bad when we do something we know is wrong. I have never questioned where the root of the feeling of guilt has come from. Or any emotion of that matter. Why do we feel that? Why do we have distinct right and wrong morals? What ARE morals? Why do we have them? What is the use and why is it so important to us? How come our brains are wired like this? Are we born with these ideas or are they strictly learned from our society and environment? It makes you question if this idea of guilt is natural or not. It makes your mind wander into areas you haven’t been before. This definition gets me excited, I love how it is making me question something that has never crossed my mind before. WHY have I never questioned that before? It’s baffling me and I want to know more.
What is supernatural? Maybe aliens come to mind. Or ghosts? Maybe you think of Myths. Maybe you think of the stars and galaxies, of astrological signs and energy. But perhaps the supernatural is way more than those things. Maybe we were once supernatural and that’s why we have certain feelings that only belong to us. Supernatural may mean so much more than we think, it could be our origin possibly. It might be the roots of our feelings and our beings. It may not be a bunch of crazy talk and eye rolls.
Is our sense of right and wrong natural? Or maybe it is supernatural? If we kill someone it is wrong. If we kill someone it is murder and we go to jail. Or we get killed as well depending on the sentence. But animals kill each other all the time and it is considered natural. It is considered survival of the fittest. We don’t put a bear in jail because it killed a fish so it can eat. We don’t kill a tiger because it killed another tiger to show dominance. We don’t punish penguins when they sacrifice another penguin by pushing them off the edge of a glacier into the ocean to see if there are any predators. We don’t wag a finger at female black widows who mate with male black widows only to get pregnant and then eat them. We don’t hang a bobcat when a it kills a stray cat and decapitates it, and only does that for sport. No one bats an eye or questions these things. Why? Because that is nature. Because all of that is natural. But if you were to go back and read those sentences but replace the animals with humans it would all be considered wrong and we would be punished.
We are on top of the food chain because of how our brains are wired. Because of our knowledge and our spiritual side. If animals don’t have the same wavelengths we have, if they don’t think like we do, then we are not animals. We are not mammals. What does that make us? Supernatural? Maybe our morals, our feelings, our knowledge isn’t from this earth after all. Maybe it isn’t natural, perhaps it does come from another planet. Perhaps Miller is right after all and it is supernatural.
