Where are the Dead?
The Irish poet, philospher, and former priest John O’Donohue once said the following:
“Meister Eckart was once asked, “Where does the soul of a person go when the person dies?”
Magically he said, “No Place.”
In other words, where would the soul be going? Where is the Eternal World?
We have falsely spatialized the Eternal world and made out in some kind of a dreamway that it is a way out beyond the furthest galaxy, when in actual fact the eternal world isn’t a place like that at all, but it’s actually a different state of being.
So that the soul of the person goes no place, because there’s no place else to go.
So that means that the dead are here with us, in the air that we are moving through all the time.
The only difference between us and the dead is that they are now in invisible form so that you cannot see them with the human eye. But you can sense those that you love that have died. You can sense them with the refinement of your soul, and you know that they are actually near you.
So you see, often when we are lonesome or isolated, we are having a failure of spiritual imagination.
We are forgetting that there is no such thing as empty space, but that all space is full of presences, and particularly the presence of those that are now in Eternal Invisible form.”
-- From the audiotape Death: The Horizon is in the Well (Sounds True)