The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds that go on apportioning themselves throughout all time. Our lives are not our own; from womb to tomb, we’re bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness we birth our future.
Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas
Who Am I?
A child of God. A child of the Universe. A sum of all events the past 13.8 billion years that have led up to creating who I am now. All of my paradigms, etc.
I am not static. Rather I am ever changing and evolving. A (changing) microcosm of a larger system.
I existed before I was born as an unfathomable number of interconnections and interdependent elements, actions and consequences. Moment by moment, I continue to exist as such today. I will continue to exist as such after I have died.
The truth is, there is no birth or death of I; these are but transitions and illusions. As long as time has existed, I have always existed and will continue to exist.
My life extends well beyond the boundaries of space and time that my ego perceives. This is self-evident.
Forces of love, kindness, radical acceptance and radical grace are immortal and are part of who I am.
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Romans 12:5 KJV
Jason Harris lived as an orthodox Mormon for forty years. He writes about his experiences leaving the Mormon Church and reconstructing a new World-View. He believes all religions and scripture are man-made, potentially helpful and harmful. He believes there is Divinity in all of them and everywhere.