Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
I read somewhere in the past couple of days a comment about the number of souls versus the population. That souls are a rare commodity but bodies- now 8 billion- are common. That the arrangement throughout time of there being enough bodies for each soul to inhabit has tipped back the other way and that now there are far more bodies than available souls, hence the NPC’s. That the majority of the population is simply soulless cattle wandering the landscape and often confused for three dimensional humanity, those who possess mind, body AND soul.
It sounds a bit esoteric, but there seems to be a truth beneath it. When I go out into the world these days I feel like a disembodied spirit, it is almost as if I cannot be seen by huge swaths of the population and when I try to engage them in any way I can see in their eyes that something is missing; they are there and at the same time not present at all…
