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AUTHOR'S NOTE | ||
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I do not believe in the existence of Transition. I do, however, believe that it is as sound a proposal of what may lie beyond death as any other. After all, none of us will really know the truth until we breathe our last and even then we may remain ignorant. Death may be a bottomless lake that awaits the burning substance of our consciousness, snuffing us out before we even know we have gone. Will it be like falling into a deep, dreamless sleep from which we never wake, or is that just wishful thinking? If the Christians are right, death is going to involve a lot more than eternal slumber. Well, who do you know who deserves to go to Heaven? The Tale of Transition is the exploration of an idea that has consumed me for a quarter of a century and is not supposed to constitute, in any way or form, a challenge to established belief systems, especially those to which homicidal maniacs devote their time and energies. I personally find it astonishing that so many are able to believe that anyone can truly know what lies beyond the grave, but that's my opinion, and opinions are like arseholes: everyone's got one. If you disagree, then that's fine by me. I am in no hurry to learn the truth, you understand. There is no need to kill me. Excerpts from Amenoumi, an ancient scroll on permanent display in the British Museum, are based on the 1837 translation from Sanskrit by Henry Thompson, PhD. The scroll is said to date back to 3000BC and as such predates the Tibetan Book of the Dead by several centuries. Some of the text has been 'modernised'. Kurt Loba. Farnham. November 2004. | ||