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...