Article by Ralph Miller

All of us have a sense of what eternity is. We came from eternity and when we die, we will return to eternity. Our lifetime on earth is a chosen separation from eternity. We come to experience and learn.

Eternity can only be ‘remembered’ from the deep recesses of our hearts. It’s a feeling or knowing, not a ‘mind’ thing. It’s a nostalgia for eternity that resides in our hearts as a long-forgotten dream. It’s a resonance, an ancient tone.

Religions capitalize on this nostalgia with various concepts of heaven or redemption. Sadly, the mere ‘concept of heaven’ is not even close to what a heaven would be like. Heaven can never be just an intellectual concept. It is a deep inner feeling. Remembering this ancient feeling is clouded by darkness that exists in the ego. Our hearts exist in eternity while we live out our lives in a realm of forgetfulness.

I have great respect for the ayahuasca medicine because I saw through the shaman’s journey a way to transcend our forgetfulness. We are offered a way to heal our nostalgia. We remember what the deep feeling was about. It is heaven.

There really is no methodical or logical way of remembering eternity. Your waking mind has only been with you for a few decades. It has no idea how vast or wide, you and eternity actually are. When we walk through the sacred inner doorway, we experience the true initiation of the heart and we remember within the immensity of time, our infinite and immortal selves.