One might allow the quick thought that it is odd that so many religions, so many dying people, so many ecstatics, so many prophets, so many schizophrenics, so many shamans, and so many quantum physicists believe that death is not a final severing but an ultimate merging, and that the reality we take to be life is in fact a passing distraction from something so profound, so real, so all-encompassing, that many return to their paltry bodies on the battlefield or hospital gurney only with great reluctance and a kind of embarrassment.
