[johnsonjunior]

mark,

given your insights, i'd say, then, that this 3d experience is more like an actor taking on a role, putting on a costume. as the bard wrote, "all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

it's verses like this that make me feel that shakespeare was esoterically enlightened or at least had some direct connection to source. our whole consciousness takes on many parts in its passage through the densities. any actor must separate and distill parts of who he or she truly is into the role that is being played at the time. when the show is over, the costume and make-up come off and the actor is back to his or her true self again. often, when portraying a difficult role, the actor is relieved to "come back to reality" so to speak, to re-join that one piece of the self he or she has used in the playing of the role with all of the other pieces that make up his or her personality.

at any rate, i have to agree with brother asa: death ought not to be mourned. it should be celebrated for what it is--a soul completing its work, taking off the facade, and becoming whole again.

in love and light,

fatima al zahra