A Quest for Community
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
It was then that it hit me,
halfway between Damjl and the Gusteria, walking alone alongside a tall thick green hedge. All of a sudden my
head filled with a sort of luminous light, so intense that it blotted
out the external world. I stopped walking and watched in amazement as
the most remarkable scene unfolded in front of me. I saw a long, very
long row of what at first looked liked playing cards. It was curving
sinuously into infinity, like a row of dominoes. And each card had a
video playing on it. When I looked more closely, I saw that the videos
were 3-D holographic windows into what I somehow knew were my own "past
lives." - (I put that in quotes because I'm not sure I believe in the
traditional theories of reincarnation. It seems more likely to me that
our normal sense of time is an artifact of our cognitive processes, and
that the Cosmos is really all happening at once in a kind of "Eternal
Now." So I tend to think of past lives as resonances between co-present lives
being lived out in simultaneously parallel universes.)
