Considering Reality...

What's Next?

I’m back on Maui and posting again.

My lifelong fascination with exploring the meaning of life has matured into a daily discovery of the end game. As that old song said: “We’ve gotta get out of this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do.”

Birth, life, death, rebirth (possibly) … who knows what it all really means? These days there’s buzz about simulations. Is this a simulation? Elon Musk believes there’s only one chance in a billion that this is base reality. Others are less certain but most tech guys who dig into the subject seem to agree there’s a strong possibility that’s what this is. I heard one researcher report that when he shone a laser on DNA he saw computer code… ones and zeros. A program. That’s interesting.

This video is well worth watching, really interesting insights about this, especially the first 11 minutes.

I’m increasingly convinced that making friends with death and beginning to actively prepare for our departure is the best investment any of us could make in our life experience. This applies whether it’s a simulation or “reality.” Either way, the question we’ll all answer one day is: “What comes next?”

And the question I’m asking right now is: “How can I best prepare for what comes next?”

Any of us who’ve done visioning work and learned how to set conscious intentions have experienced both success and failure. Sometimes what we envision comes to pass, other times it doesn’t. In creating a conscious intention around whatever I may graduate into after death, I’m feeling drawn to more mystery and less logic. And, as a wordsmith, I appreciate the creating nature of words as spells.

Listening to the audible version of The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell this morning, I perked up when I heard a term applied to one of the many dream sequences the narrator was sharing.

“The wonderful land.”

These three words capture - for me - the feeling essence of what I’m intending to experience after I exit this dimension: I’ll be traveling to a wonderful land.

And now I’m growing that vision in my heart.

I invite you to begin meditating on this, not in any morbid sort of way, but in the same way we look forward to any trip, to any new adventure. Because… it’s coming for us all. As T. S. Elliott said: