"Death comes to town"

Dear Readers,

It is I who have manifested, he who ferry’s the dead, The Boatman.

I have decided after much thought to come to the world of the living for a time.  My curiosity has been piqued and I wish to live among the people.  When you come to me it is mostly an experience of intense misery or sorrow at your own passing that I am witness to.  I want to see you as you are, alive.  I want to see the love for family, the joy and sorrows of life not of death.  I want to see your jealousy, your rage, your greed and your struggle for power in a world where that is an illusion.

I came to the world of the living on February 2, 2016. I felt ground hog day a fitting emergence into your world.  Like the humble groundhog I am briefly popping above ground looking for a shadow but in this case the shadow I am seeking is experience.

When I arrived I bought myself a nice small home in a suburb near a city.  I am enjoying my new neighbors and the atmosphere I have found myself in.  I would like to give a daily account of my experiences for my readers, but forgive me for not saying the location in which I am residing, I do not want any unexpected guests.  If the world knew I was walking among the living there is no telling the people who would visit me.  So let me be clear in case a reader does locate me. 

“No I cannot bring a loved one back from the dead, I cannot cure your diseases or right the wrongs of the world.  I am a simple ferry man and I have no more effect on your world than you do.  My hope is that my readers pay heed to my words and learn something from them.  There are a lot of question in life we all would like the answers to and I have decided to write this blog to answer some of you question about life, god and eternity.  So do not hesitate to state your queries.”

I have to admit I seem to have arrived at a particularly volatile time in your history.  Being in the underworld I do not follow the goings on of the living and get much of my information from some of my more chatty ferries.  Since coming to this world I have immersed myself in the recent happening of the world and I must state, it is depressing.  Humans have squandered the gift of life like ungrateful children.  It is true.  “You never know what you have until it’s gone.”

I have never witnessed a species so ungrateful and ignorant of its own existence.  You close yourselves off from the big picture content to exist in a bubble of safety for fear of the larger world.  I weep for your blindness, I pray for your eventual clarity.

Until the next entry I bid you farewell....

May the wisdom of the universe find you.