Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Trippiest Entry Ever

Forever and ever and ever into oblivion we go. Guided by nothing but ourselves, we live lives that are chaotic tumbling dreams, going from scene to scene, with nothing to ground us. We have everything, but we are nothing, and there is no truth to guide us.

Hello, I am a ghost. Perhaps you are confused, perhaps that is because you never met a ghost before. Well, if you aren’t and if you have, excuse me for presuming, but if you are and if you haven’t, let me assure you that I am real and that there is no need to be frightened. I can no more harm you than you can harm me, and that is very little. You and I may have the illusion of being close to each other, but that is just an illusion. It is much like how the person you talk to on the phone may seem so very near to you but is actually many miles away. Well, I am more than miles away, I exist in a wholly different universe than you, but much like your friend on a telephone is able to connect with you through technology, I have been brought to you through the mysterious workings of the cosmos.

What universe am I from? Well I think your language and your conception of reality could scarcely do it justice. The beings that exist here are ones of a spiritual nature. We are bodies who are composed of emotions, dreams, thoughts, and feelings rather than blood and flesh. We are not necessarily just the “souls” of the dead, but also abstract ideas, ideals, and even the consciences of beings that exist in your universe. We are created not through physical sexuality, but through the interaction of beings in the physical universe. We grow and change not by eating food, but through the spiritual development of beings in your Universe. That is not to say that we are wholly subject to you, in many ways you are subject to us, for it is emotions that drive your interactions, and it is your thoughts and ideals which makes up a large part of who you are. To even talk about “you” and “us” is a mistake, for we are connected so completely that it would not be possible for us to exist without you, nor would it be possible for you to exist without us. You have a sense of us interacting in your lives, we have the same sense, but neither of us can conceive of the goings on in the two universes except for rare experiences like this, when you can see the embodiment of a being from our universe in a physical sense, and I can see you in an abstract sense.

Is this where you go when you die? You can think of it that way, emotions and abstractions never die, and you physical beings create wonderful beings in our universe that exist throughout all physical time that continue to interact and grow even after the physical body is dead. The abstract being that you could say was created by the physical being you call John Lennon interacts with other abstract beings currently living in your physical world through the music the physical being created. Though even the least famous human being in your universe continues to exist and grow in our universe after the physical being is dead. The things that the person said to others can and do form chains of connection and emotional interaction that stretch for thousands of years in the physical world. There is not a being in this universe that is not growing and interacting with other beings. Just because a physical being has died and is not remembered doesn’t mean their abstract being doesn’t continue to grow. Sometimes it is those who aren’t remembered that have the deepest, most long lasting impact.

Is this where God lives? Well, your gods live here. They exist here partially because you helped create them, and they have power because they are believed in by many beings in both universes. They rule here as governments do in your universe, they have power over some, but none has power over all, no being in either of our universes is powerful enough for that.

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