Spirit Evolution

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Debating with my friend last night, I raised one of my usual "why is she discussing this" topics.  Little children experience death the first time when a pet passes if they are spared life's bitter turns early.  Death is so bewildering and painful - if there is life, there is death and yet we would walk the length of this earth if it would spare us the spectre of it.

The church tell us funerals celebrate the life of our lost ones and they are in a better place hence the celebratory mood but we feel dismal loss and sorrow, sometimes worry about where this person has gone, are they well?

Ancient people it appears, were evolved spiritually and later generations devolved to the ignorant, confused souls we now appear to be.  Ancient people were in touch with the universe, "knew" information, had "knowledge" - understood the seasons and cycles of windfall and misfortune.  They anticipated their children already knowing who would come and what their life's purpose would be, akin to Mother Mary knowing the impending birth of Jesus and his great responsibility to the world. So too did Nelson Mandella's (Madiba) tribal family anticipate his entire coming and accomplishments several generations before he came.  In Egypt the pre-knowledge of children was common place.

What if the human race existed on a spiritual plane of understanding where life and death was like the seasons and that we would be spared the dispair and soul breaking mourning that often but not always accompanies death.  My suggestion to my friend - what if we knew that they were ok and we were ok and death would not be something to fear, something that broke us and hurt us.  She suggested as humans we would still feel loss and would still mourn, which is true, but wouldn't we be spared much of the hurt we suffer?