tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post6411013020394724747..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Nothing in the Dark ( a story of the dark)Ashe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-77319533981683033872012-11-25T08:24:17.339-05:002012-11-25T08:24:17.339-05:00I've wondered about that tunnel of light too. ...I've wondered about that tunnel of light too. Is it birth or the brain shutting down? That's the big mystery to me about death and about how we perceive the world itself is how much of all this is brain chemistry. I won;t go into it here, but my view of god has become pretty complex. What I'm sure is true is that we exist on several levels or dimensions of reality that we are not physically equipped to perceive, as physicists say there are about 15 dimensions going on around us but we experience only four, and that's if you count time as a dimension. We have meat brains and meat senses which will always limit what we can experience. When my cat sniffs the air he is experiencing a world of complex smells that are invisible to me, which makes me wonder what else is out there.<br /><br />I wrote a short story once about Kafka's Gregor Samsa's being incarnated from a cockroach (Kafka never actually calls him a cockroach) to a woman, who turns out to be his own sister. And yes - multiple orgasms!<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-31119689506225738082012-11-25T08:15:20.615-05:002012-11-25T08:15:20.615-05:00Hi Lisabet!
I'm just getting back to this. I...Hi Lisabet!<br /><br />I'm just getting back to this. I haven;t been on the internet much these days so all my correspondence has gotten sloppy. <br /><br />I had another short story in mind but i couldn;t get it to gel, so in some ways this was kind of a fall back. I've been thinking a lot about Buddhism these days, maybe because its the holidays and I always have a hard time this time of year. So I wanted to depict the act of dying as expressed in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. In that depiction the act of dying, when it occurs under benevolent circumstances rather than violence or trauma, takes place in five stages which I've tried to show. There is even a meditation practice based on these five stages which Dzogchen monks practice daily, including the Dalai lama, in preparation for their time of dying. Also of all the depictions of the afterlife that I've been acquainted with, this one seems the most realistic, the least sentimental and what i suspect is what actually does happen to us.<br /><br />Although I admit the idea of 72 dark eyed virgins has its appeal.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-15923327715661241682012-11-22T14:14:45.535-05:002012-11-22T14:14:45.535-05:00Often the experience is described as "moving ...Often the experience is described as "moving down a long tunnel towards the light". Since all 4 of my kids were born via c-section, I wonder if their experience would be of a sudden explosion of light and sound that pulled them out of their warm cocoon. Seems to me that on the moment of death people re-live their births. Are we recycled, as some religions teach? Or do we just become energy, returning to join back with the life-force that animates all living things? <br /> <br />Personally, if I'm going to be recycled, I hope I don't remember being a human female if I'm a cockroach the next time. I've enjoyed sex so much as a woman, I'd hate to have to accept anything less than multiple orgasms! But that's just me...Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-86287511504567776382012-11-22T05:47:04.305-05:002012-11-22T05:47:04.305-05:00Hello, Garce,
Powerful stuff (but then your posts...Hello, Garce,<br /><br />Powerful stuff (but then your posts often are)...<br /><br />Maybe dying isn't about darkness at all, though. The people who say they've come back talk about the light.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing such a vividly sensual piece.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.com