When Time Suspended Reality, or When Eternity Fell Into a Deep Sleep . . .

When Time Suspended Reality, Or
When Eternity Fell Into A Deep Sleep


As consideration for my freedom I am told that "a little willingness" goes a long way. I am trapped within a world of fences; of limitation. Not by any mechanism not of my own doing, but wholly a choice made by me at the birth of time. It is an experience played out in time and space; a reflection of what I believe to be Hell.

Hell! A little definition is in order here. To borrow on one of our many dualistic terms in a world of opposites we are told by traditional Judea/Christian theology that Hell is a place, or state of consciousness in opposition to Heaven (where we are told, God resides) and Hell where rejected souls go or spend eternity as payment for sin. Sin, of course has been traditionally defined as an abomination in the face of God - a direct attack on God’s Peace of Mind. More recently we have been told that sin is more forgivable - not more than error, but still serious business.

So, within a framework of what we experience as the physical world - all the Universe in all of its vastness of time and space, we define our home as a body; as a creature of residence in this continuum we call the World. As an inhabitant called a human being I am led to believe that I am of the highest order of life here - at least on the planet we call Earth.

Of course religious thinking does differ somewhat on this point, but since we have no central authority, an "earth religion", if you will, I will take the position of what I grew up believing in the western world’s dominant religions of the Judea/Christian faiths.

Why did I say we define our home as a "body"? Why not one of our locations, such as Earth? Well, the creature we call "man" is without doubt the most self-aware and self-centered of all creatures. Accordingly, where his body (consciousness) is, becomes the exclusion to all else in the physical world. Those places "outside" the physical world where Gods and Devils reside are external of his experience and relegated to a status we could call "spiritual". More on this later.

So, there we have it! The framework where most of us may recall our life experience thus far. A place fixed in time and space with just a hint of something unknown to our experience - outside our consciousness, but not outside the palette of our imagination.