Ann Gray
Ann Gray
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Yes. Thank you Umair for that wonderful description, you are gifted with the power of words. The only word I can use is hyper-real. I’m sure you have a better word for it. The last time I found myself in that place was a few months ago. It was filled with people. Joyous, calm and more fully alive than I have ever experienced elsewhere. The awareness included me knowing that I could not stay. I was pulled back to the sound of the pitiful wails of a woman in grief. Only to discover that that woman with me. My grief was caused by my separation from It, yet I was ecstatically happy at the same time! My flummoxed husband thought I might be having a nervous breakdown. As I tried to explain to him that all the people I had met where ‘dead’ as we call it, but where in fact more alive than we are now. That this hyper real world is closer to us than we are to ourselves he suddenly knew what had happened. It seems we have to stay in this stage of our existence for our own sake, our own learning, our need to expand our awareness is facilitated by this life. All the ‘pain’ can be gladly accepted because ‘death is a messenger of joy’ and we are dying a little every day.