A00010 - "To Serve"

 The answer to the Boy's questions was always the same.  The God Who Was With the Boy wanted the Boy "To Serve."

A00009 - What Does the God Who Was With The Boy Want?

 The Boy awakened to a different reality and a different world.  All of his previous hopes and dreams seemed to be no longer attainable.  During his first year at the College on the Hill, the Boy was an athlete who competed on the Track and Field team.  He loved to jump because when he was good, he felt that he could fly.  But with his new diminished body, the Boy could no longer jump.  His wings were now clipped, and the Boy could no longer fly. 

Before traveling with the God Who Was With The Boy, the Boy had been a stirring orator who envisioned a brilliant political career.  But now the Boy's Mind was clouded and any thoughts of a political career were gone.  What would the Boy do?  And what would the God Who Was With The Boy want the Boy to do if the Boy was to return to the College on the Hill?

A00008 - The Return

 The time that the Boy spent with The God Who Was With The Boy did not last for long.  Although the Boy wanted to stay with The God Who Was With The Boy, The God Who Was With The Boy had other Plans.  The God Who Was With The Boy planned for the Boy to return to the Boy's Time and Place, but The Boy would return as a Changed Being.  The Boy could return to the Boy's Time and Place, but the Boy could never again be the Boy that the Boy had been.  Indeed, when the Boy returned to the Boy's Time and Place, the Boy found that he had been in a deep coma during the time that the Boy had spent with The God Who Was With The Boy.  While in the deep coma, the Boy's body had atrophied and the Boy was extremely weak.  The Boy would never have the body that he had before the coma. 

Additionally, the mind of the Boy was not the same that it had been before.  There was a fog that existed in the Boy's mind.  And most, importantly, the Spirit of the Boy had been changed.  No longer was the Boy focused on Service of the Self.  Instead, the Boy felt that he had been sent back to Serve Others.

Over the next fifty years, the Boy's compulsion to Serve Others would take many forms.  But it was the Need to Serve Others that would be the foundation of the Boy's Life ... until the end of time.

A00007 - Nonlocal Consciousness

 The amazing journey that the Boy took with God was not unusual in itself.  The tales of such journeys have been with mankind for many millennia and, in modern times, scientists have begun to study such experiences. 

There is a book entitled Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife by Leslie Kean.  There is also a Netflix documentary series entitled Surviving Death which documents the notion of a consciousness that transcends not only death but also space and time. One of the more eerily memorable of the book chapters and series episodes pertained to children who had specific and vivid memories of their past lives as adults which occurred decades before they were born.  The events depicted are both chilling and amazing. 

However, for the more scientifically inclined, I commend to you Chapter 9 of the book which is entitled "The NDE and Nonlocal Consciousness" and which was written by Pim van Lommel, MD.  As the text explains:

"Pim van Lommel is a Dutch cardiologist who worked at a teaching hospital in Arnhem in the Netherlands for many years and published several professional papers on cardiology.  In 1986, he began studying near-death experiences in patients who survived a cardiac arrest.  Dr. van Lommel and colleagues published the results of a breakthrough study in the reputable medical journal The Lancet in 2001.  As the author of the 2007 international bestseller Endless Consciousness: A Scientific Approach to the Near-Death Experience (renamed  Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience in the U.S. edition) he is now recognized as a world authority on near-death experiences.  He has lectured on this topic all over the world. 

"Dr. van Lommel has provided the following exclusive chapter, which places evidence from the veridical OBE [out of body experience] and NDE [near-death experience] in a larger context. The child past-life cases can also be applied to the conclusions he draws about the nature of consciousness and its continuity before and after death."  (page 114).

*****

"In 2005, the journal Science published 125 questions that scientists have so far failed to answer.  The most important unanswered question was "What is the universe made of?"  That was followed by "What is the biological basis of consciousness?"  But I would like to reformulate this second question as follows:  "Does consciousness have a biological basis at all?"

"Based on the universal reported aspects of consciousness experienced during cardiac arrest, we can surmise that the informational fields of our consciousness, likely consisting of waves, are rooted in an invisible realm beyond time and space (nonlocality), and are always present around and through us, permeating our body.  They become accessible, and form our waking consciousness through our functioning brain, in the shape of measurable and changing electromagnetic fields.  Our normal, waking consciousness has a biological basis because our body is an interface for it.  But it is one small part of our larger field of consciousness.

"Could our brain be compared to the television set, which receives electromagnetic waves and transforms them into image and sound? These waves hold the essence of all information, but are only perceivable by our senses through suitable instruments like the camera and TV.  And as soon as the function of the brain has been lost, like turning off the TV, memories and consciousness do still exist, but the reception ability is lost: the connection, or interface, is interrupted. Yet consciousness can be experienced during such a period of a nonfunctioning brain, and this is what we call an NDE.  So in my concept, consciousness is not physically rooted.

"I refer to this consciousness beyond time and space, which has no material or biological basis, as "nonlocal consciousness."  It features an interconnectedness that offers the chance of communication with the thoughts and feelings of others, and with those of deceased friends and relatives.  Its roots lie in another invisible, immaterial realm tha is always in us and around us.

"In trying to understand this concept of the interaction between nonlocal consciousness and the material body, another analogy can be made with modern worldwide communication.  At each moment, day and night, we are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of telephone calls, by hundreds of radio and TV programs, and by a billion websites, but we become aware of these electromagnetic informative fields only at the moment we use our mobile telephone or by switching on our radio, TV, or laptop.  What we receive is neither inside the instrument, nor in the components, but thanks to the receiver, the information from the electromagnetic fields ("the cloud") becomes observable to our senses and our perception.  Internet with more than a billion websites available worldwide is obviously not located inside our laptop nor is it produced by it.  Rather, it is stored in "the cloud."  But we need a functioning instrument to receive information from "the cloud," which can be be compared with nonlocal consciousness.

"Nonlocal consciousness can be experience in many ways, ... , and this concept is not a new one.  Scientists and philosophers over the ages have proposed this idea.  Aspects of quantum mechanics like nonlocality help us to understand how consciousness actually functions.  But the difference is that now we have more data highly suggestive of its reality, such as the NDE, which can be explained in all its elements as an experience of nonlocal consciousness. 

"The inevitable conclusion that consciousness can be experienced independently of brain function, and what that implies, should induce a huge change in the scientific paradigm in Western medicine.  It could have practical implications in actual medical and ethical problems, such as the care of comatose or dying patients, euthanasia, abortion and the removal of organs for transplantation from somebody in the dying process with a beating heart in a warm body but with a diagnosis of brain death.  Such understanding also fundamentally changes one's opinion about death, because of the almost unavoidable conclusion that at the time of physical death consciousness will continue to be experienced in another dimension, in an invisible and immaterial world, in which all past, present, and future is enclosed."  (Pages 124-126)

*****

The out of this universe journey of the Boy is entirely feasible for a journey by a nonlocal consciousness.  It is what happens after the journey that makes life so interesting.

A00006 - Dark Energy and the Born Again Universe

     In recent years, much has been said about the presence of Dark Energy and the role it plays in our Universe. At present, Scientists do not know what Dark Energy is and have not directly seen it.  At best, what is known is that the Expansion of the Universe continues to increase long after the initial Big Bang gave Birth to the Universe. 

    For the Boy, the existence of the Dark Energy is consistent with the Boy's observation of a Universe filled with Light and with the Light being Life.  

    For Scientists, there is the stark realization that in time the Galaxies and the Stars will become increasingly distant from one another until the Day comes when the entire Universe will succumb to the Force of the Dark Energy and Die.

    However, for the Boy, the Day that the Universe Dies will not be the End.  The Dark Energy -- the Unseen Light and Life -- will continue to exist.  And from the Dark Energy that remains after the Universe has seemingly died, there will be a Re-Birth and a New Universe will return.

    In Essence, the Universe that we know today will, like so many of those who tap into the Energy of the Universe, seemingly die only to actually one day be Born Again. 

    In the Universe Revealed by the God Who was with the Boy, nothing ever dies.  All that is, and ever shall be, will rise again.

    And that includes, this Universe.  

A00005 - Tao Te Ching

     For many years after being shown the Universe of Light, the Boy would search to find some validation for what he saw.  After all, the Universe as depicted by Science tends to be composed of vast Empty Spaces only occasionally occupied by Galaxies and Stars. But this was not the Universe that the Boy saw. 

    Not until some fifty years later would the Boy learn about the Way -- the Tao Te Ching.  The Tao Te Ching embodies the search for a way of life based not on arbitrary rules of morality but on achieving harmony with all things. In the Tao Te Ching, the Boy found an understanding of the essential oneness of the Universe, that Cosmic Energy -- ch'i -- flows within and around us without ceasing, and that wisdom consists not in acting upon the World in order to change it, but in finding and following the Way -- the Tao.

    Unfortunately, it would take over fifty years for the Boy to discover this.  These pages chronicle the Boy's Journey of Discovery. 

A00004 - Coincidences

     All during the life of the Boy, the Boy would experience what most People would call Coincidences.  However, for the Boy, there was no such word.  For the Boy, whenever a seeming "coincidence" occurred, the Boy would simply see an act of God.  For the Boy, the frequent coincidences that occurred in the Boy's life were simply beneficial acts of God and the Boy would greet such acts with a smile.