Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

“On the contrary; we consider them the first attempts of humankind to approach the Light and therefore we greatly appreciate and honour them! But all this surfaced only because of the Nibelvirch; it all originated from the nostalgia and the thirst for the Samith, as were the greatest works of art and all great human accomplishments. This thirst of spirit and soul for a godlike destination and proof of our superhuman origins is what makes us idealise and beautify thousands of aspects of our everyday life in this poor earthly environment: virtue, forgiveness, friendship, humanism, youth, beauty, justice, happiness, freedom, affection. The lack of the Samith is the deepest source of all great works of intellect.”

And the truth is that man’s destiny in our time was to be born, to love, to hurt and to die. Seemingly, at least. But because man's consciousness intuitively knew that something bigger was concealed behind appearances; it couldn’t tolerate this explanation and rebelled.

“We could not explain it,” I said, “and we secretly wished to have been born robots without the ability or the need to conceive of all these things since they are so alien and inapproachable anyway, so incompatible with real life.”

“They’re only incompatible in the poor and temporally finite environment of this world and life. But if nothing bigger existed, none of our thoughts and concepts like eternity, infinity or God would exist either. The innate mental propensity for perfection would not exist and neither would the Platonic world, Buddhism, or even Christianity—to speak in your own language. Acts of self-sacrifice such as Socrates’ refusal to flee, the 300 of Leonidas or even the crucifixion of Jesus, never would have happened in human history.”

I didn’t want to speak or listen anymore. I had entered another dimension, a different, more empirical world of questions and answers. There were already far too many concepts I needed to contemplate. However, I felt that a gap had somehow been filled inside me, that many questions had been answered and many doubts resolved; yet more were born out of their ashes.

INFINITY, AFTERLIFE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE ETERNAL IMPULSE TO DO GOOD14-X Again

(Late at night)

From yesterday's conversation with Stefan I saw why these people are concerned with the major “historic” cases of the least famous and low-profile altruist: unknown people who did not go down in history, such as convicts serving long sentences, who changed their inner world, or random parents with stories of incredible acts of sacrifice. People here believe that, although such acts haven’t been registered in the collective memory of mankind through history, once recorded, they are equally as important as any famous act and that they haven’t been lost.

Stefan told me that they had known about the sanctity of human suffering since the era of Christianity and that the Nibelvirch had simply helped them realise how significant this moral value was. I asked him his opinion of Christianity and he told me that it was a very comforting religion that worthily stood in for direct knowledge for thousands of years. His words made me feel very good and boosted my faith that had begun to falter with everything that I have seen since I woke up here.

“Not that we have now grasped the meaning of life. On the contrary; but even the fact that we know how indescribably great the reality objectively is, and the fact that we know it exists for everyone, sooner or later, is enough to free us and grant us salvation. The time-space continuum, you see, is not exactly as imagined by human perception. Infinity and the ever-present are one and the same. Objective reality is multi-dimensional. Numbers, matter, the spirit, individuals, ideas or infinity do not exist separately, but all together. If we could penetrate the true meaning of each of the aspects of the Samith

, the Great Reality, then we would also feel God. We would be able to understand the purpose, texture and meaning of life. We would acquire a wisdom superior to that of humans. But that just can’t happen, my friend… Direct knowledge, the Nibelvirch, showed us that the physical universe, creation, God, infinity and all these notions, are mere aspects, mere sides of the Great Reality. And there is a multitude of other sides, inconceivable to humans.”

According to Stefan, after the Nibelvirch, man's attempt to reduce all phenomena of the world and life to a single "principle" has remarkably decreased. Now people see many aspects of reality as components of the Samith. He kept reiterating that only a small part of it can be sensed by our antennas. That’s as far as our “knowledge capabilities” go. “I know, my good friend, and you understand how much more difficult that makes my life. My own antennas are even smaller than yours”, I thought to myself.