Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
White Papers
Given the plausible logic that what is known to be indivisible is the fundamental element for all that is real, however much alien its view may seem, a continuum becomes apparent. The all'inclusiveness of this continuum is more important than its proof and validity, for within its here'and'now eternity, one is always assured some vantage, rather than suffer repeatedly, applied exhaustive escape velocities required for posers imposing their face value..to accept it without reason and surrender to the gravity of its black'hole oblivion. This continuum conveys no less a mystery of what is so familiar and real, and in terms of mystery, the same price is paid to enable one to ultimately choose their own guiding, or beguiling light, as desire or need may prefer
No thing unreal exists. The soul has spirit; spirit has energy; energy has mass, how ever refined that matter may be. While it is true that nothing unreal exists, or emptiness that is unreal does exist, it exists only by sensual gradient, sense deprivation..one's limitations. Nevertheless, whether or not there is any before or after'life is moot. If there is an existence extant of life as we know it, there is probably a good reason why one does not recall it. This intuitively suggests the need to focus 'here and now' in one's life. And if there is no after'life, where everyone exists in an 'eternal return' continuum, as oblivious of past existence as one is to the next, this then too, behooves one to focus on one's life 'here and now' and get the most out of it.
The idea of after'life suggests also ante'life, and a re'incarnating evolving soul, except perhaps, for some who seem to have only one life and one chance and one judgment day. The idea suggests some connection with the configuration of matter or its reconfiguration as the soul evolves, in that, as the soul becomes more stabilized in soul'space, the more estranged from incarnate realities it becomes, and at the point of re'integrating itself into the world, having become un'selfaware, it can only do so as passive matter evolving into the simplest forms of life. Until then, one is simply..a luminous being evolving.
Souls are born without the everyday conscious ability to recall anything else but the past of its own cognitive existence. It is important that one lives their life without any recollection of an existence before life. This creates a great unknown, a great fear, a great push to live with the soul pulling. Fear diminishes through the course of one's life with accumulated values, which pulls ever more as the push weakens. The effort needed, the sacrifice needed to create the environment necessary so that awakened souls may evolve is enormous.
Evolution is a push'pull process. One is pushed by fear, created by what one does not know, and pulled by all the varieties of love that their soul creates or realizes. Both are needed, both are vital to the evolution of the soul. Those who are not pulled by love have allowed themselves to be ruled by fear. Fear is not something necessarily to eliminate, but more often to confront, define, and contain, so the un'definable will not rule. As such, there are two kinds of fear...relevant and irrelevant. In facing one's fear, the relevant becomes apparent, and with the relevant defined, one becomes enabled to muster the courage to live with it. Courage is somewhere between the fear'driven who ridicule the fearless, and the fearless who regard the fear'driven with contempt. Both extremes incarnate, contribute to the closed worlds of the universe, in which life does not celebrate life.
A human being is made of a very fine substance that has folded into itself until self'aware, and once self'aware, begins upon a critical path, for which some is self'created, some is absorbed from the labors of work, some is borrowed, some is broken, a bit is stolen; altogether, ever wanting, ever needing..feeling unique, but un'knowing how unique, and as a thought may say one thing, a feeling, another..an experience, yet another..a human being becomes ever more radiant from the freedoms associated with each. Such inalienable freedoms are necessary for a soul to evolve, as necessary, as it is to forget past lives.
Within the spirits' continuum, the advanced soul manifests as matter un'selfaware, and through its complexities, convolutes within an un'interrupted environment until it becomes self'aware, and as a newborn being, it re'incarnates as the soul dreams successive lives until the soul becomes advanced and once again..un'selfaware.
The signature of one's self, that sense of uniqueness is just that..a sense, which began with the first experience of becoming aware of one's self. This matter, self'aware, evolves within the free'will collective, which accounts for only a minute portion of matter in the universe. If it were more than that, the universe would be in deep inside a pasty, very ammonious sulfurous substance. Who one is, becomes the accumulation of all one's thoughts, feelings, and what one has experienced, and for the experience of these ends does a soul dream life, does an advanced soul give and render itself.
Wanting to know about the after'life...one should know first, that every bit of consciousness gained about the after'life is paid by one's sense of life. This is why they are separated..why a portion of soul falls asleep, and dreams life..why an advanced soul renders itself so completely for it. Only in life, within each unique complex of thoughts, feelings, and knowledge are values formed and meaning 'to be.' Each life enriches the free'will collective and compels it onward, as necessary, to ever evolve within the spirits' continuum.