Posts

Showing posts from June, 2010

more on the passing

we are such a very small part of this universe, how could further becoming part of it be anything but wonderful? each person who dies, who "leaves the planet", now knows all the secrets we wish we knew, not as their personality, but as their soul, the very essence which was birthed into their little baby form years ago. eventually, that soul-essence will have returned, merged, melded, with the universe from where it was borrowed. how could that not be a wonderful experience? is this maybe what our human minds has conceived as being "heaven", or "with God"? i think so. what an amazing thing to ponder, to know the universe, and all of time. our little minds can not contain this now, we can not believe in something bigger than we are. however, we can believe in the concept of it. timothy leary said "now i'm going on the greatest trip of all". the universe is clearly so wonderful and startlingly amazing, we should easily assume o

when we slip across

this is in regard to death. remember, we are not humans having a spiritual experience. we are each a Spirit, having a human experience. raised as a Christian, my young mind raced around many questions, including the issue of Time, in regards to my grandparents "waiting for me" in heaven. it didn't make sense to me. the more i thought on it --armed with some knowledge about space-time issues-- at somewhere around the age of 13 i came up with a view which makes many people pause. the premise is simple: here, in this physical reality, we see time as a linear progression and we can't seem to get around it either by heartfelt meditation nor intellectual application. in all the hymns and stories, we are told that "when we've been there ten thousands years... we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we first begun"... which is a very nice way to try to present eternity to 19th-century singers of hymns. and it was that stanza which gave me