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Somehow he knew it was just a matter of time. Then again, he already knew there was something terribly wrong a week before when the lab results came in and he noticed the whispered conversations, the unshed tears and the poignant tenderness in the touch of his loved ones - almost as if they were etching every moment in their souls.
He was finding it hard to breathe, much more to talk. Out from nowhere, a muted sob escapes his lips and a single tear rolled down his cheek. Not because of the innate fear of what's to come but because of the deep regret that comes with wishing things could've been different, that he could've done more, loved more or could've spoken the words that would now be forever unsaid.
In the twilight on his conciousness he hear his wife praying for him and his children whispering words of love and goodbyes. With all his heart he wished he could all hold them in his arms one last time.. with his last breath he prayed they will be alright.
It was time...
Slowly, his conciousness ebbed until it was all but a flicker of light. He felt himself drifting into the vast nothingness that inhabits the world of dreams. His thoughts begin to fragment, one by one, all his memories flashed before his eyes before disintegrating into the void and soon enough, even his very concept of self was lost in a fine mist of thoughts and memories.
Like tiny bubbles in a fast flowing stream, the fragments floated. For what seemed like ages, these bits and pieces journeyed among other bubbles scattering, tumbling and merging in the turbulent flow. Finally, the river of fragments empties itself into a vast ocean. There they slowed, settled and finally recombined..
Light...
It was the first spark of conciousness - like waking from a deep restful sleep yet more so. And in that first moment, self and all the fragments of memories recombine from the bubbles in the froth. He opens his eyes and is flooded by a sudden gush of awareness. It is as if his self permeates the whole of the vast ocean, as if he was one with the flows, the tides and the froth. He is an entity unbounded by physical dimensions and yet one with the whole. He has never felt more alive before.
Welcome home..
A voice from his childhood and yet no words were spoken. He sensed a multitude of selves welcoming, enveloping him and merging with his own. Fragments crossed the divide and suddenly he knew who they were..
His mother whom he has not seen for almost 20 years, his cousin and childhood friend, his brother in law who preceeded him not a year ago, his friends, aunts, uncles, friends and everyone else he had known, loved and said farewell to in his other life.
They enveloped him and his core was suffused with a deep glow of contentment. This time though there were no physical barriers between him and their multitudes of conciousness - all their thoughts and feelings crossed from one awareness to the other without dilution. It was a perfect union of entities and selves.
...What is this place?...
...It is a stream of conciousness unbounded by space and time. A creation of downstreamers far into the future that reaches into the furthest past.
The question was anwered almost at the same time it was asked..
Every mind that has ever existed and that has ever been freed from its physical confines are brought here - a vast network of interlinked minds spanning every world, every time and every dimension of our universe. Here we are whole, we are at peace, we are one...
And so it was, without the need for pretensions, misleading words, insecurities and hidden intentions so common in the physical world, he began to experience perfect tranquility for the first time in his life. With the purity of union among other entities and the conciousness stream, he began to understand the true meaning of happiness and meaning. He has found life in its purest form.
The stream is an unbroken loop of minds that threads the most remote past to the furthest future where people are born free from physical bodies and are introduced directly into the stream. It is connected to the physical world only though the different manifestations of energy.. Thoughts, dreams, radiation, matter.. Through which everything from the formation of stars to the unfolding of time is connected.
Interlinked conciousness and life using the very fabric of the universe.. It is to be the final step in the evolution of man and his technology and his quest for the fullfilment of an eons old faith. A future folds into the past to extend Redemption.. Eternity.. Peace..
He thought of the family he have left behind and his attempts of direct communication through the physical barriers of the human brain. He fleetingly feels a deep sense of regret and loss.
But in this place where one human lifetime is but a drop in the glorious infinity of the stream, he would wait..
And when he opened his eyes, he smiled..
Welcome home...
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