In Another Universe

In another plane of existence, in a universe unknown to mankind there is a God who is one and the same with the universe in which it resides. The intelligent races of the seven realms of this universe know thy God as the One and often call him by names such as; the Shaper, All Knowing or most often as the Great Being. 

The Great Being is in every rock and every wave of every planet in this universe and speaks to civilizations in various ways, yet the people of the realms always know for certain that thy god has spoken with them, for they are bestowed by an inner sense that enables them to understand and be able to communicate with the All Knowing when required. 

The god of this universe is omnipotent and all knowing. It has no boundaries in time and does not live within it. For the All Knowing, the past, the present and the future are a manifestation of self-conciousness within intelligent beings, yet for thy god, time is not existent. Thy god, however, has no power to control what the beings of our land call fate, nor does this god has the power to determine a person's path in life. 

Even though the god of this plane of existence is limited in the power it possesses as described by the people of our lands, it is nonetheless revered as the absolute perfection of this other universe. It is the reason why civilizations in this realm are ordered and peaceful. It is the start and end of every creature's life, whether intelligent or not. All the crawling worms and the flying beasts of every planet in this other universe bathe in the knowledge of their god. They know it exists, and they live and are sustained by this realization. 

The Great Being is eternal and immutable. Thy god has no emotions nor any imperfections associated or characterized by mankind. The Great Being is merely observant in its behaviour, yet always present and influential in the lives of the people of this plane of existence. 

What goes against the order of this universe would be what the people of our lands call sin. Such acts as killing for purposes other than feeding,and stealing create chaos within the universe and are thus not adhered to by the races of the realms because all the intelligent life forms evolved within the universe in the knowledge of their God, which is ordered and not chaotic. As such, no civilization lies or exploits one another. There are no wars and no intelligent being within this universe can feel isolated and alone, because every creature is connected with one another through the knowledge of their god. 

Civilizations have prospered and grew and let other life forms prosper and evolve into other intelligent beings for millennia within this universe. Most civilizations have ventured into space and conquered celestial bodies other than their mother planet. A good number of them have come in contact with one another, and they live peacefully in each others presence for they bathe in the knowledge of the existence of the All Being. Their knowledge of the natural world is far superior than that of the humankind, yet they still learn and search and discover more information through the aeons. They do not teach or require the need of Philosophy or religions within their society, and they never seek to understand what god really is because they evolved within the knowledge of their God and they are part of thy god as the cells of our bodies are part of us. 

Even though they are highly intelligent and technologically advanced, certain physical laws impeded them from overpopulating their universe. Their morale status and intelligence also enabled them to control their growth and to stop themselves from harming their environment. Their societies' order is reflected in their architecture and education systems. Each newborn is bestowed with the knowledge of the Great Being and manifests an urge to learn about his world, and so the infant being is left to ask and discover new things in his world at his own will. As such, no indoctrination of pre-set forms of knowledge are imprinted within the infant's mind and he grows with a constant fascination for learning. 

Most of these mentioned points and others have created within this universe what mankind would call a utopian paradise. It is said in some legends and tales of ancient scriptures of mankind that when a person dies in our universe he is reborn in the light or in paradise. Little does mankind know that the true facts about death within our universe are directly linked to this other realm of existence. For when a self-concious creature dies within our universe, the electrical signals that once fired and made that being self-concious transfer through upper dimensions into this other universe, and they find themselves within the realm of the All Being.

Without physical form, they dwelled in this realm for aeons. The so called 'souls' as described by the people of our lands rested in the plane of existence of the Great Being since they ever came into being, until now.

For somewhere tucked away, hidden in a corner of one of the seven realms of this other universe, a civilization has managed to identify the link between our universe and its own. They have managed to create a device which would capture floating shapeless bits of information, the so called 'souls' of our universe, and transfer them into physical shells.

Little did they know about the consequences of this discovery, and how their ordered universe would soon change and be shrouded by an impending chaos. 

Mountain Magic

There's something fascinating for me at the thought of living up high on a mountain, in a remote village where everyone knows each other and the only contact you have with the outside world is the occasional tourist that dares to venture so far up.

I experienced this feeling a few days ago when I visited Taormina with my family. Taormina is a tourist destination, a bustling village up high on a mountain range in North-Eastern Sicily. We took the easy way up, a cable car, which landed us two corners away from a busy road full of ice-cream shops, souvenir vendors and the like. Up here, the drop in ambient temperature is immediately noted as you get out of the cable car. Amongst all those tourists, however, the village looked nothing different from any other famous place around the world. Yet, there was still something magical floating around the place.

As we walked the busy streets, we passed by three different churches, all of which had marriages going on at the time. There were people dressed up in suits and gowns outside and a lot of tourists taking pictures of the bride and groom as they walked down the isle and then out of the door into the plaza. Marriages in Taormina seemed to be idyllic since as we walked back down the same roads later on in the day there were yet other marriages taking place still. Maybe they all felt that magic in the air.

Further up the road we came to a large open area with a balcony hanging from the hillside. From here I could see the beaches down billow and the red houses dotting the landscape, becoming denser as you moved towards the coast. From up here it seemed as if there lives were different from the lives of the people around this place. It was as if the people living down there were temporally stuck in an unreachable place.
There were so many questions rushing through my head as I looked down at the sea and the waves and surf left by the boats. How did they build up here? or who was the first person to decide to settle here? It was all very fascinating.

This feeling, somewhat magical, I am trying to describe has come to me each time I went up on mountain ranges. I felt it in Italy, in Spain and in Switzerland and now it happened to me again in Sicily. I am not very fond of heights, yet, when my feet are on the ground but I know I'm above the rest of the world I feel ecstatic. Call me a mountain dweller, or a crazy man with Heidi's syndrome, but I know I'll be visiting some other mountain very soon.