Spirit

When I was in Longmont, once I was so sleepy, I slept in my tree for 12 STRAIGHT HOURS. I didn't dream one dream; it was a dreamless sleep. When I woke up at 8 AM, I had no recollection that the last 12 hours had passed. It seemed like a minute ago, I'd been awake at 8 o clock, the night before. My mind had skipped a beat.

THIS I think is what death is like, only when we're dead, we pass through ALL ETERNITY without a second thought.

I.E. I will die and then, I will not feel ANYTHING for ALL ETERNITY—until I am born again. However, like anything in nature, eternity is cyclical.  It does not just 'stretch off into eternity...' Rather it loops back to where we are now, and where we started. I am reborn into this earthly body, but not before all eternity has passed. I will have no recollection of eternity passing, however; I will have no recollection of death. Like the sleep in Longmont, death is a great big nothing.

Incidentally, in death, our soul returns to 'God Consciousness'—

In death,

        'the Spirit tastes not, yet tasting not he tastes. How could the Spirit not taste if he is the All? But there is no duality there, nothing apart for him to taste.

        There the Spirit speaks not, yet speaking not he speaks. How could the Spirit not speak if he is the All? But there is no duality there, no one apart for him to speak to.

        There the Spirit hears not, yet hearing not he hears. How could the Spirit not hear if he is the All? But there is no duality there, nothing apart for him to hear.'

-The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

I am alive now, and life is all I know. Death passes by without a second thought. And yet eventually I will be born again into my body. My soul, however, will feel like there is —no— eternity​.

But, how serious is death!?

It is in death, during the passage of eternity, that my soul is in the 'fiery furnace', being forged for a new life in its new body.

In death, I don't think I FEEL a thing.

I feel sensation only in my body...

What do you think?