This World, a Boarding School?

I have no reason to believe that I existed before I was conceived in my mother's womb. 

I have no reason to believe that I am an eternal soul that chose to descend from "above", enter a human body, and have a human experience in order to learn an important lesson.

This world is not a boarding school that I attend for a while to learn a lesson and then leave to return to my true home up there somewhere. I'm not just a visitor here.

This world is my home. To this earth I belong. Every grain is my kin, a living universe of learning. It's far more than I could ever take in before to the earth I return. 

Contra Teilhard: I'm Not a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience

Some believe we are spiritual beings having a human experience. They believe we're visitors in this world, in human bodies to learn things for a while, but our true home is somewhere else. It's beyond in some unseen "spiritual" realm. In other words, they believe we're extraterrestrials, aliens from another place. Maybe some of us are.

As for myself, I'm a terrestrial, an earth man: fully human, from the humus - earth, water, wind and fire. I'm spirited, alive, like other living beings, only for awhile.

I'm not just a visitor here. Earth is my home. She is my mother. From her I came. She sustains me. To her I will return.

I'm not a spiritual being. I'm a human being creating my own experience as I go.