Life-Force Theory

As I near the end of writing The Milk Run, I have stumbled across some interesting ideas that seem to have a common thread. My working title for this idea is 'Life-Force Theory'. The fundamental plot element of the novel is that Heaven is real and Lupe, Aason's sister, is kidnapped and taken there for nefarious reasons.

Aason's biblical journey takes him to Hades (Hell), the planet Ay'den (Eden) to the space between Heaven and Earth (Limbo), Purgatory and finally Heaven itself. The story postulates that souls are real and they all make their way to Heaven eventually. Some take a detour in Purgatory if they have issues to work out but all eventually go "topside" as they call it. If you simply postulate that souls are real, it explains a whole host of stuff, some of which the characters discuss in the book. Here are some examples:

- Ghosts: simply souls from above who have found a temporary portal from Purgatory or Heaven and have traveled back to Earth.
- Near-death experiences: the bright light and loved ones on the other side of the tunnel which is just a portal to Heaven (if the light is golden) or Purgatory (if the light is bright white) and the loved ones are the souls of your predecessors who are waiting for you.
- The seemingly inexplicable bond between twins than allows one twin to sense when the other is in danger, even if they are half-way around the world. This one is easy. Twins share a soul so they have a channel for communication that kind of bounces off of heaven and back down to Earth again.
- Out of body experiences: if someone's soul rises above their body, say during surgery, then reenters the body, it may be explainable because it is real.
- Vampires - this one is silly but vampires would just be bodies without souls. The idea of them sucking blood is just a metaphor for them trying to suck the life-force from their victims so they can restore themselves to wholeness.
- Soul mates: simply matching souls.
- Premonitions or even dreams.
- Possession: another soul enters your body.
- Seances/Contacting the dead (just other souls).
- Hearing voices in the head.
- Reincarnation.

Oh well. The Milk Run is just a science fiction story but if the Life-Force Theory is true, it sure does explain a lot of superstitious, psychic or otherwise inexplicable things. The grand unification of scary stuff! You can think about it but I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time worrying about it though.

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