Paradise Found | Part 2: After
A short recipe for Paradise
Part 1 can be read here.
Then the ‘Moment’, the moment the universe was awaiting since its inception, at last came: Every sentient living thing, both mortal and celestial, burst into immensely bright balls of light and energy at the same time. The Sun did not explode after all, ‘they’ just was very happy for the occasion too. The mortals and Celestials did not die or hurt themselves either. They just evolved.
This was the moment the first corporeal beings in the universe -or, at least, the Milky Way galaxy- evolved into a non corporeal form. More would hopefully follow later to join us, but the Earthers and some of the gods and spirits they worshiped (the worship of which gave them form and life) were the first.
I think it’s time for me to disclose that I (the narrator) am the male half of the human couple that I mentioned before. I am composing this ‘post-corporeal account’ 4 light years away from Earth, on a planet similar to Earth in the Proxima Centauri star system, Earth’s closest neighbor.
I soon found my love and friend, and we decided to leave our solar system and explore the stars together. We arrived here in just a couple of days, traveling at exactly the speed of light. The reason we arrived so fast was due to the ‘relativistic time dilation’, as was explained in detail by Albert Einstein and Hendrik Lorentz.
We traveled at the speed of light because we are light. Before evolving we would not have survived on this sterile planet even for a few minutes. But now we can even ‘walk’ on the stars themselves. After a while though, we discovered that we can ‘will’ ourselves back to physical forms if we want to! Which was no miracle since, after all, Einstein’s famous equation Ε = mc2 can be rearranged to m = E/c2
While we were in our non corporeal forms we “spoke” telepathically. We could feel each other’s emotions and hear each other’s thoughts. I am compiling this account partly in my physical form, which is not the same as pre-evolution. It is much more durable, can endure a far greater range of temperatures and pressures, and I can even survive without any oxygen, but that still feels like you are suffocating.
The part of this account with the angels and demons, as you might already be aware, was largely fictional. I wanted to describe how the human species evolved beyond its physical form in a figurative and symbolic language, instead of being crude and literal. Since this account is meant to guide and prepare extra-terrestrial species that have not yet evolved, and thus still feel fear, I wanted to be as gentle as possible with you.
We have not found any of you yet, but we feel strongly that you are out there. When we do we are not going to interfere with your evolution, with this piece being the sole exception. I am going to encode it in non verbal math — flat, hyperbolic and fractal geometry, full of complex shapes but no characters- so that you can decode it without too much effort when your math guys are sufficiently skilled.
Why write and send this to you? Because we feel it is much better to send you a rational explanation about what happened to us than show up to you unannounced and have you think that we are gods or something. No, we are not gods. Well, we basically now have the power of gods but we are not gods in a metaphysical or supernatural sense.
There was nothing supernatural or miraculous about this. It was a natural process, the result of the apex of our physical evolution, and the beginning of our non corporeal one. It will happen to you too, in the future, if you survive and do not destroy yourselves; we almost did, quite a few times.
So, for the love of… god, take care of yourselves, of your planet and of the other species of your planet. I cannot adequately describe in words how it feels to stop feeling fear and pain. When we are in our non corporeal form it feels like time stops.
That we are both at one place and many others, far, far away, at the same time. This feels so overwhelming, perhaps because we are still non corporeal infants, that we often recollect ourselves back to physical bodies in order to feel ‘contained’, in one piece.
After evolving, all the remaining great mysteries of the universe (such as how exactly it came into being, what will happen to it in the far future and the meaning of life itself) opened up in our minds, but we are not going to disclose any to you. That would be a major interference, wouldn’t it? Nope, you are going to find those answers yourselves, when you evolve.
As I wrote before only sentient living beings evolves. The animals of Earth did not evolve. Neither did the plants. Earth is now theirs; it fully belongs to them and their evolution will no longer be hindered by our species. We mildly but clearly feel, via long distance telepathy with the others, that no post-corporeal human remains on Earth anymore.
All ~8 billion of us left, unable to resist the calling of the stars. Some of the animals of Earth, like the dolphins, should evolve too and join us in a few million years. Before leaving Earth we heard the calling of some dolphins, in our minds. To our surprise, we realized that dolphins were already telepathic beings, despite being corporeal.
Oh yes, we could understand them. And they us. They ‘spoke’ in our minds more with feelings than thoughts, and as we prepared to say farewell and head for space they sang to us a very beautiful song full of both sadness (for them) and joy (for us). We felt guilty that we were leaving them alone, but they understood. It was our first actual communication with another species, and it was quite a remarkable experience.
Dear future friends from the stars, we’d rather say no more and let you get back to your business. My partner thinks I disclosed too much, and that this might interfere with your natural progress. Please bear in mind that we are not a threat, despite our immense power.
The universe itself is now in the palm of our hand, but we do not intend to interfere with any of you. Not just due to some unwritten ‘neutrality policy’ but because, if we do, this might obstruct your evolution to non corporeal beings, and we do not want to be left alone. It’s rather.. lonely at the top you see.
This message was solely meant to let you know that your future will be one of magnificence and greatness if you manage to overcome your worst instincts; we almost didn’t. In other words it’s meant to advice you to be careful but also give you hope. Because hope, as we used to say, always dies last.