Meditation for November 1st
The Dead
I got something vital to tell you: most people die. What happens after a person dies is a mystery. The problem is you are still stuck on Earth, grieving the loss.
Death is mysterious, unpredictable, and unfair. Terrible people live to see their hundredth year while innocent children die. Death is a great way to get rid of someone you don’t like. Death is what you either forget or put too much fear into when making poor life decisions.
Grief is hard. A break-up will finally come to a close or begin again, but death is permanent. That person will no longer return to the living, unless as a zombie enslaved person.
To help put your grief into perspective, let’s follow death’s journey.
- Whatever kills a person is painful. The last minutes of a person’s life are in excruciating pain that only the final sweet release will alleviate.
- The sweet release never comes. The dead hurls through space in a light tunnel not unlike the one you witness in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and the pain that ended the dead’s life line is hurled with them.
- Purgatory. All souls come to purgatory. It is empty, foggy, and vast. The souls are lost, lonely, and in pain. Pain is death. One is reminded of all the pleasures one never partook in while alive because of silly morals. They spent too much time fighting injustice and standing up for the belief that they are now finding untrue.
- The soul must be cleansed of all that is rotting from life. This is lava rock to flayed skin. The angels, for lack of a better name, scrub the skin to the muscle. The blood is soaked into the celestial soul, turning into rain in hell below. The soul will never be clean enough because the soul didn’t live life the proper way.
- A column of runes explaining your sins is hoisted in the air. You are to be crucified to that pole for a year. Your blood will run down the pole and gather on the elevated ridges of the runes of your sins, bathing life’s transgressions. Time is nothing in Gehenna, so a year is infinite.
- If you are true in your grace, you may go to heaven. If you were wicked, hell bound your soul be.
- Heaven turns out to be a chance at life again. Do it right and your soul may find rest; do it wrong and the soul will boil in a lake of fire.
- Hell is a lake of fire. There is a resort on one end and cabins and a primitive camping area on the other. No RVs, sorry.
See! You are sitting there boo-hooing, and you aren’t even going through a fraction of what a dead person’s soul is going through.
Instead, there are things that you can do to help the dead soul make it through the madness of purgatory.
- Bake a cake. Leave it on the table for a night.
- Ring bells. This helps the soul feel less lonely.
- Pour milk or holy water on the departed’s gravestone.
- Don’t let the dead be cremated. Only the buried have a chance at heaven.
- Light candles every night so that the dead can find their way.
- Soul cakes: give cakes to the poor and children so that they may pray and beg for your favored soul’s redemption. This later became children dressing up as ghouls and asking for candy.
- Don’t ever move from the home your dead soul knows, for it will return to see how things are shaking. If the owners of the house aren’t familiar, the ghost will kill the family in the worst possible way, so make sure you hate whoever you let move in after you.
The only way a soul can’t make it to purgatory is:
- Cremation
- Soul being eaten by an Archon while traveling to purgatory
- You are not loving that person enough
- Having a dreamcatcher, even if it is on a sweet shirt, souls get stuck in that. Basically, dreams are tuna and souls are dolphins. Don’t you want your dreams to be dolphin-free?