Whenever i sit with the dying, i would look at them and mentally see them alert and active. Last week, i sat with two patients. One, i could see the way he would look at me were he alert and on his feet. He would joke also, clever subtle joke. The second, he just looked at grouchily. Imagination or mental seeing? I do not know.

Similarly, with the first after sitting in meditation for a while, i felt transported to that higher space i felt to be heaven on earth. Was he in that space and I felt it? With the second, my soul did not take that leap upward. It hovered back and forth. Was the first already with one leg on the other side and the other still caught in this world, on this earth. I would not know.