| Couldn't we, floating along in time, be making a false assumption that reality is a one-way affair? "Eternity" might just be the absence of linear time, mightn't it? Given that, I don't think we can really do much but note the effects and make an educated guess. After all, our perceptions of the shape of the earth and the orbit of the planets and stars changed as we were able to shift our vantage point. |
You’re right, our perceptions change depending on our vantage point. There should be at least one vantage point, somewhere in eternity, from where we can see the full picture, (or at least where we can see a large glimpse of the full picture.) Our present physical realm isn't the best place to get a reasonable picture, because we're confined in a human body, looking out through the barred cage of an earthly personality.
But it's our consciousness that ultimately sees, comprehends, experiences, and understands. So imagine the seat of our consciousness, or our soul, existing in another dimension, clothed in a different kind of body, where we can see through enlightened eyes. In this eternal Creation we will be closer to God, and this is what I believe, (no, I know), awaits us beyond the veil of death. We’re in this present physical realm for a sacred purpose, and death is just a big, fat illusion.
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
For what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides,
That it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
For when you have reached the mountaintop, then you shall begin to climb.”
- Kahlil Gibran, ‘The Prophet’
