This is Amorella in the hinterlands which, by the way, are closer by than you think. This photograph of a corner of a Roman bath was taken two years ago at Bath, England. No people shown, which is the way I want it. This works as another image of the setting of our imaginary Elysium.
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If the Roman arch disturbs you as an anachronism, as being chronologically out of place with The Rebellion’s setting of the eighth century BCE, you have to remember that it is the Dead are who are out of place with Reality, which is the dimensional universe where you the Living are. Elysium is not a topsy-turvy world such as Alice discovers in her adventures in wonderland. I am orndorff’s guide around this Place, I am as the combined characters Virgil and Beatrice in Dante’s The Divine Comedy.
The pool of water serves as a representative of a primary conditioning agent of Elysium. Water, one of the four basic elements, can be readily seen in all three states, solid, liquid and gas. In this Place heartsansoulsanminds are reversed. As a gas they are invisible and cannot be seen as can be readily observed in this photograph.
If all human beings could be forever seen as solids as they pass through a particular space, say Times Square in New York City, a part of their individuality would be as transformed into a tiny dark mole of human clay. Humans would pass through the space while depositing a bit of themselves behind and one would quite quickly have the proverbial mountain made out of a human hill in moles piled skyscraper high on Times Square.
This book’s setting, this Isle of Elysium, is created from the collective consciousness of a selected culture of humanity. This consciousness is as the gravity that keeps the Place together, the small island planet if you will.
The solar system, to continue the analogy, is the LOGIC, which holds this imaginary Planet of the Dead in place. Human beings have a higher level of reasoning ability and, as such, once the Place was found by the original planetary DNA Mother of whom all who are alive are connected, the metaphysical Pathway was completed from the Living to the Dead.
The Pathway is as a downhill running river from the Living to the Dead. It contains various branches which meander off to similarly comfortable communal and cultural histories.
In this case, the Pool in the picture above is the end-place the heartsansoulsanminds ‘swim’ into from life on Earth. Think of the individual, if you will, as a tail-like spinal column attached to a brain stem, connected to a brain in which the mind is encased.
These are leftover concepts from Living and it allows for an adjustment following the current down to stillness and climbing out of the pool as if sheorhe is in herorhis best of human health and usually comfortable (age-wise) altogether. The gravity of the human spirit brings them swimming and/or drifting to this place, no compass or GPS is needed.
Meetangreet begins immediately, usually with a close friend or loving family member who helps the recent Dead acclimate. If this appears strikingly similar to being born into the world in the first place, it is supposed to. Elysium, being created of a common human consciousness must remain comfortably human in orientation and setting.
The gift of Free Will continues. The psychological adjustment period of the recently arrived varies. Each is soon relieved to find one can escape into private conscious thought or slumber. Individuals as well as cultures need their space even when it no longer exists except in minds already rented into this timelessness. It is in this private psychological state that one finds herorhimself in ‘HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither’.
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More on that tomorrow. Do you have any questions, orndorff?
So, you do not cross the river, you swim or float into the downstream current?
Yes, the River Styx will do for all the other rivers in Hades in this case, though it could represent the River of Jordon or any other river in a like analogy. This story is spiritual not religion specific as to time or place. The human spirit is the common ground.
How does is the sky lit blue without a sun?
The collective consciousness – as in a ‘super’natural, if you will, a mega-lucid collective dream.
Are people who died physically or mentally infirmed well?
They are. Those who lost their memories regained what they wanted to regain that will help them be humanly comfortable. Babies and others who have the free will to walk or the equivalent (to move about) are ‘educated’ in their culture and are allowed to mature to the age they wish. Everyone continues to learn and grow both emotionally and intellectually. Curiosity is a human trait as are both working and playing. People find an interest, if nothing else than to meetangreet which promote both listening and questioning.
What about the hero warriors? Do they continue to do battle if they wish?
Contests are usually singular. One on one, and in the conscious nature of things they are intellectually aggressive games. Video games are an apt analogy here. I’ll explain more in tomorrow’s post.
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