Metaphysically speaking this is the realm of pure consciousness, the stream that contains all in passing as it passes our shallow mind. Metaphysics - the study of the ultimate nature of being, within this world and others yet unknown. Do such places really exist? Or is this the realm of the mad... those that perceive spaces that most have never conceived? Parmenides may have to be questioned.
Those that enter these realms know of their reality, the being of spirit residing in these places, unseen but knowable. This is where all becomes one and one is pure consciousness - not a physical manifestation but solely spiritual. This is the kingdom of the god, aka Heaven. This is Nirvana where no thing exists but the spiritual oneness of all things intertwined in perpetual embrace. This is witness to the godhead that completes all pilgrims journeys in blissfulness and stillness. This is total submersion into the stream where gravity fails and negativity vaporizes into the ethers.
But yet people continue to question and doubt as they well should. The experience can only be attained by one... this journey to the absolute. But the sciences, the world's religions, the great philosophies have all spoken of this one place, this final journey. But ironically this one place has been divided into multiple places where quality of one word exceeds another to the point where it is the word that transcends the actuality.
To be a seeker requires the absence of beliefs that burdens the journey... a frightful prospect for many. Most are soothed into incompleteness by the message of others thereby making themselves incomplete.
But worry not... there are many lives to live and no timetable for the end. It is only our own physical, ego life that ends when our beating hearts choose to no longer beat... when our lungs no longer breathe - these two things our ego life has little control of. When do we awaken from sleep and request our heart to beat? When do we command ourselves to breath? These are beyond our mind as is the reality of existence beyond that very mind that limits our awareness if we only rely upon mind for our own being.
The true Self that resides within each and every form of life knows not death. This spark is always and will always be. The light never dies that illumines all of existence. Our egos may spurn the notion but that deters not the absolute which is forever streaming...
cecil
27 January 2008