Many Different Worlds

In another place that cannot be named, I am having a discussion with some 'learned scholars' -  and there, I was endeavoring to explain, that the 'Barzakh' idea, coming from the 'Golden Islamic Age' book by Ibn 'Arabi whose title I will talk about presently (one of our earliest 'limited ten series' Digital Dirham NFT's is named after him, Ibn al 'Arabi) - involves a literal physical place, which is part-way between this material world, and another world.

The (occult) explanations that people have today in the standard Islamic narrative world, come from their reading of the word and its occurrence in the text 'al-Futuhat al-Makkiya' (The Meccan Illuminations).

Quite pretty, you have to say...

The problem is, though, that this text, like so many others that have been through the hands of various Islamic re-printers, has been completely messed around with.

The original book was never called 'al-Futuhat al-Makkiya,' but 'al-Barzakh al-Futuhat,' which has a completely different sense of intended meaning...

'Barzakh' is an intermediate place, literally a piece of land between two waters - this is where part of the name for 'Bahrain' comes from.

So, here, in this place where you are reading, we go by my idea...! LOL

There are many different 'places' in this world, upon this planet Earth.

There is no commensurable connection at all, between the people who are 'at the top,' for instance, in Afghanistan, and let's say - you.

You are not going to 'fly away' any time very soon with your vehicles loaded to the gills with cash money. In any case, even if you had all that cash money, where would you go that would be all that  completely different to where you already are right now?

There would be 'people' in both places - here where you already are there are 'people,' and 'over there' there are still 'people.'

If you want to go some place special, you want to go to the 'Barzakh.' Or, to put it more accurately, into the Barzakh. The 'Barzakh' is -, that place 'viewed' for us by old Stanley K., the movie master.

A famous 'restoration' of an old Cartier tank watch.
Worth an amazing fortune now.

There is such a place, and it is a place of retirement from the insanity of the exterior human world, though not yet actual 'heaven above' (in fact it exists right here on this Earth), but where its sojourners are inducted there in a process, into serious learning, that cannot really be attained out in the external human world.

The people in the Barzakh al-Futuhat (The Illuminated Place, or 'the place of opening to the Illumination') wear 'masks' in the sense that you cannot really tell who they actually are. It isn't that they specifically are 'wearing masks' as such, of course.

The people of the Barzakh are not dead, and they never will be dead, for they are not 'of the doomed and the damned...'

Now it's not as though I was speaking only with Muslim scholars about this, because in fact, in this particular group there are dyed-in-the-wool Kentucky Christians(!), and complete atheists and academics. 

But I will tell you this much - in every single case (and we had cameras on them when we were not physically present), when they were discussing the text among themselves, every single imaginable 'rationalization' and 'justifying' of a prior held belief was given by each person. Nobody changed their view or their mind because of anything new that they had heard, and what they were given was new to them.

This is a so-called 'tonneau' style, not a
'tank' style.

The subject of women and sex arose in the whole thing, and one lady, actually went back to the thing about Timothy in the Bible saying that 'women should be silent' in the ceremonial area (I mean, she actually said 'in the church' and that is categorically not what it says in the text but -, doesn't matter)...

...Her 'justification,' cleverly, was that 'back in those days' the women stayed outside, and they used to shout into the place, where the men were, and all that Timothy was trying to say was for them not to do that.

LOL

Yeah all right. Whatever.

After a while we came back in and I said, well okay we'll take a few of you to the 'Barzakh' and everyone thought 'oh he's pulling our legs like he always does to make some weird outlier point again.'

You cannot change human beings' pre-existing commitments to ignorance, bad ideas, utter foolish nonsense that comes from other stupid human beings.

And you think I'm being outlandishly foolish myself or exorbitantly arrogant, right? But you are not Stanley Kubrick. And for you, you may be imagining that he just came up with ideas because he is 'creative.'

And there is absolutely no way that such a position that you currently hold, is ever go to change inside your head unless you witnessed, as reality, any such a thing that Kubrick (in this very well-known, obvious example) was depicting in fiction, well - as more or less, fiction; except nobody does believe it was fiction. What they all do is turn the thing around, into a 'conspiracy narrative' about the Illuminati or the Reptilians or the Rothschilds or whomever else.

But then, one also has to keep in mind what I said - if we go by what my view is - not even the people inside the Barzakh 'know everything.' They are still learning.

No, correction - they are the only ones who are learning. 

Hey, watch your step, right?

You start learning and you enter the Barzakh yourself!