Introduction
There is a very large planet similar to Earth rotating around a distant star in the Andromeda galaxy some 2.5 million light years away, which has four continents, numerous archipelagos, and a range of human and other animals established on its surface. The planet’s natives refer to it as Dragan. The origins of the name are unknown, but probably came from the first human arrivals.
The inhabitants of Earth are not aware of Dragan’s existence until their lives on Earth end and they find themselves waking up to a new existence on Dragan. Every human and animal on Earth experiences this. While the ‘how’ of the process of leaving Earth and arriving on Dragan is known, but little understood, the ‘why’ of the process is completely unknown. Dragans are full of conjecture, but little hard evidence, about the mystery of why the inner essence of a human life separates from an Earthly body and travels through space and starts a new long-term existence light years away. This state of affairs is similar to the absolute uncertainty and lack of evidence humans on Earth have about what happens after life there ends.
Persons of a religious persuasion on Earth would, if they knew about Dragan, claim confirmation of some of their cherished notions of this so-called ‘after-life.’ But once they’ve gone through the process themselves, they are usually, at the very least, surprised at the reality. There is no main city with streets paved with gold or mansions for every single person and saints parading endlessly and eternally around a throne of God. As far as anyone on Dragan can ascertain, there is no God. In fact, Dragans find themselves shorn completely (some would say ‘freed’) from any and all religious belief and practice. There are spiritual practices, but nothing remotely like what was experienced on Earth.
This is not to say that Dragans don’t believe that there is no God (or even gods). In fact, intellectually speaking, many Dragans suspect that there may, in fact, be a supreme being directing things, one of the only explanations they can come up with to explain the aforementioned ‘why’ of things. Other Dragans think that a milennias-old process resulted in highly evolved inner human essences, freed of Earthly bodies, discovering one of the pathways through space and coming to Dragan, where they enjoy an existence of extremely long (could be ‘eternal’) life, the absence of illness, disease, decay, and aging, and other pretty special benefits.
The Dragans, in their communities, spend much time endlessly debating just how long life on Dragan is for each inhabitant, as well as the more central question: If the animal and plant life cycles of birth, maturity, aging, and death was so crucial to the endless cycles of life on Earth, how is the absence of the latter two on Dragan possible?
Trees, plants, animals, and people are born and come to maturity on Dragan, in addition to the humans and animals who arrive after lives on Earth. But no one really ‘dies.’ Trees and plants do fall and are consumed and otherwise used, but humans and animals do not. Enjoy a good steak or some veal or a hamburger on Earth? Sorry, there are some tasty Dragan equivalents, but they don’t come from animals. Yes, bad news: the human ‘after life’ is a vegetarian one. Dragans do enjoy milk and cheese and butter and those kinds of things from cows, so Dragan doesn’t equal Vegan. But it was it is.
I wrote this account of my own Earthly death and experiences on Dragan as part of the attempt at so-called ‘reverse communication,’ a controversial effort of the Terran Society in the Dragan city of Eren. The Society is a group of philosophers and scientists in one of Dragan’s largest cities which is dedicated to reconnecting to Earth, by either making the conduit between Dragan and Earth a two-way street, or at least finding a new route back.
There are people who choose to remain on Earth to help newly deceased people find their way to the conduits between the two existences. They’re called, quite simply, Guides. The Terran Society often gets communications from them, mainly from Transitionals (recently dead humans just arriving on Dragan) carrying notes from Guides to Society members. The Society has, however, never successfully sent anything back to the Guides or anyone else on Earth. It’s not for want of trying. But no Guides arriving on the other side have known of the Society and these attempts until after they’ve arrived here. It’s still a one-way street only.
The Society is at this time attempting a new method, which I’ll describe in detail later. If you’re reading this on Earth, the ‘reverse communication’ was successful in sending a message back. Earth and Dragan are on different planes of existence, not only in space, but also in time and other dimensions. It’s more complicated than mailing a letter back to your loved ones, but the Terran Society thinks it’s possible, mainly due to the existence of the Guides. Personally, I have my doubts. But there’s lots of free time here, so I’m game. It’s at the least an engaging mental exercise.
Whether you believe what I write here or not is up to you. What’s written here is the truth as we on Dragan experience it. There are, of course, personal opinions here. Ultimately, though, I think you’ll have to experience the journey to and life on Dragan for yourself before you’ll know whether it’s true or not. It is, after all, pretty unbelievable. ★
• 950 Words written by Steve @ 18:52 | 09-Dec-05 in Departure •
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