MAY 31, 2014 SATURDAY MORNING
Good morning, Honey Bun. I love you. Good day yesterday, huh?
Things come and go through my head. Things that would make good subjects to write about. But when I get a chance for a writing session, the ideas are nowhere in sight. But since they are recurring I have recurring opportunities. Let's see if I can dig up one now.
Okay. Here's one. It has been said by many people that grieving over the death of a loved one lasts for a year or two and then the survivor adjusts to the loss by finding closure to it. Well, I think this viewpoint is only a platitude, a misleading cliché, and just plain wrong.
Closure is an impossibility. It is a term that suggests an absolute state of being, that of a story or episode in ones life being closed, finished, and gone forever never to exist again. But that’s just wrong. There are no absolute states of anybody or anything in our world. Our souls alone have absolute existence.
What has lessened my grief over the loss of you (the loss, that is, from my physical perceptions) is that the idea of closure is at best simply one more empty platitude people use to blunt the sharpest edges of emotional agony, to blind themselves to the horror of their misunderstood conceptions of the reality of the situation. They have an unnecessary nightmarish conception of the passing away of their beloved friend or family member.
I know better. Now. After having faced my nightmare head on and alone, refusing to be dulled by platitudes about what life and death is. Nothing passes away from this world. There is no time dimension in which it can pass through to another place in time. There is also no place in space where anything, including a cherished loved one, can pass away to because space itself is also an illusion. This is one of the most difficult things to grasp. For me, it has alluded my understanding longer than the cognizance of the unreality of time. But it is every bit as true as that.
Time and space being illusions means there was nowhere for you to go, my Sweet Wife. All that transpired was a change in form that my physical senses could not follow. But that is no reason to presume that we souls do not possess a full range of higher, more subtle, and more dependable spiritual senses which we can use to communicate across the borders of so-called life and death. Since we are souls while tethered to a material body and still souls when free of that material body, we can use our spiritual soul senses even while still in our physical bodies. Our physical bodies are made to use their own sensory apparatus for managing physical experience in the material world. At the same time, our souls who drive this physical machinery, have sensory apparatus of their own. Our souls, therefore, are well placed to use both modes of communication. When we park or discard our physical bodies, we still have all our soul capabilities and these higher senses are increased in power because they are no longer weighed down by so many heavy physical concerns.
I am talking about a kind of inter dimensional soul travel or soul based communication. A real and dependable connection with loved ones after the illusion of death temporarily disrupts our habitual mindsets and approaches to communication with one another.
You and I are improving our connection. It will be better than it has ever been once I am done with my physical duties and necessary attachment to my material body. Even so, we are improving our connection, especially through the Shabd Sound Current and Astral experiences during the night.
I love you, Honey Bun.
ADDENDUM:
Listening to the Shabd sound current is a present moment event. Remembering your face and caresses and the many other episodes of our life together is an other time event, outside of the present moment and therefore outside of reality. To concentrate my attention on those memories is to venture off into illusion. Pain is in that illusion, the pain of loss.
Reality is in the present moment. The present moment is composed of real things in the act of existing, of being real. This realness is beyond time. Time is the illusion composed of memories.
The present moment always is. It is composed of things being in existence now. It is always this way. Not being a thing of time, the now is outside of time. It is the reality outside of the illusion. It is timeless. It is eternal.
Shabd, the Cosmic sound current, is heard only in the Now. It exists only in the now. It is a thing of Eternity, this now and the Shabd sound inside it. Therefore the Shabd sound is a Bridge to Eternity. To keep our attention on Shabd is to keep our attention on Eternity. It is the only real world. The past and things of time are dreams to let go of.
Eternity is now.
The things that were real in the now are still real in the now. They are not real in the past. The past is a shadow of the real. All real things are existing now, in the present with us to touch with the senses that are available to us in this moment, in eternity. The sense of hearing listens to the Shabd in this moment and therefore it exists and listens in Eternity. While we listen and meditate upon the Shabd sound current we reside in Eternity. We float upon the cosmic river of light and sound.
All our loved ones are in Eternity. We have but to practice listening and seeing by doing this eternal act to improve our awareness of these loved ones who are with us now in this never ending world of Eternity. We see all our blessed loved ones more clearly as we clear the dust of time from our spiritual vision as we meditate upon the river of sound and light. The details emerge as we improve this divine skill.
Hi, Honey Bun. I love you!
