The Labyrinth of Cause and Effect

Gerard Antigny (French Artist, born 1951), “Silence”

I want to give thanks to the divine

Labyrinth of effect and cause

because of the diversity of creatures

that make up this unique universe,

for the reason, you will not stop dreaming

with a labyrinthian plan…

— Jorge Luis Borges, fragment of the poem “Another Poem of The Women”

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Everyone has their own unique song, an inner melody that fuses each of us to the deep, modulating, harmonious hum of the celestial orchestra that’s the collective energy of everything that’s ever lived and ever going to live. It’s our life force. The power of the universe.

…a feeling that was ecstatically happy and familiar — and it confirmed what I’d always suspected, that every one of us living creatures is part of a collective energy that is also ecstatically happy and familiar. The culmination of that energy is love. It’s with us now, it always has been, and it always will be. Every one of us has this familiarity. We know it. The problem is, we bury it under so much apprehension and worry.

— Larry Hagman

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Ultimately, we cannot know whether we will experience anything after death. But it seems highly probable that to a…