This was how John Travolta’s character in the movie Phenomenon tried to not only comfort his two young friends when he told them that he was dying, but to give some insight into the truth about life. We are all going somewhere.
This alludes to the fact that life is a journey, an endlessly shifting landscape of experiences. Nothing stands still, nothing stays the same.
His statement reminds us that life is not confined to the birth and death of our human body. Our body is merely an impermanent and fleeting manifestation of consciousness. The Consciousness, which is our Source, exists eternally.
What we call life is merely one temporary, largely illusory, experience involving consciousness (an aspect or part of Consciousness) taking on physical form. This human life is rather like the small band of the colour spectrum that we are able to perceive with our eyes. But the colours we see are just part of a whole spectrum invisible to us. Invisibility, we now understand, does not mean non-existence.
Dying is not the end of life. As the Buddhists say, it is not life that is the opposite to death, but birth. LIfe is eternal, manifesting in an infinite range of possibilities, in physical form and outside of it.
Just as the application of heat energy to water changes its atomic structure to become steam, consciousness can take on different forms and formlessness, depending on the vibrational frequency of the energy of which we are all made.
Death is a transition; the transformation of energy from form to formlessness. The energy that slowed down to become form in the birth process, speeds up again to a higher frequency where the body is no longer needed, and indeed, can no longer exist. Throughout the process, consciousness continues unaffected.
When Travolta’s character says we are all going somewhere, what he means is that life is continual movement, growth, and expansion. Birth, death, and the life in between are all part of the movement and expansion of Consciousness.
There is nothing to fear in death. Our fear disappears when we lose the desire to try and control this process, and allow the eternal flow of life to do just that: flow. All we need do is learn how the shifting tides (principles) of life work, and learn to ride the waves. That, is where the joy of life begins.
