"My view of the life cycle" by Si-Jye

I see it not as only a circle, but also a spiral. Imagine you're in a multi-floored building with a giant spiral staircase rising through the center. Each floor could almost be considered a level of existence or development. There are multiple rooms on each floor. Some beings never leave a single room. Some only see a few. Yet others leave rooms to visit far-distant others. This would give a reason...a purpose...for a single floor. But why multi-floors and why the giant staircase?

Each level represents a different level of progress and/ or existence. The usual cycle is birth-life-death and on to be reborn on the next level, if everything has progressed as it should. If not, then another lifetime is spent in that realm of existence. The spiral staircase is a mode of traveling between the realms. Each step isprogress-made. This allows one to go to another existence before their cycle is finished, or to merely visit. Now why would one want to progress to another level?

Some are happy as they are and choose to not move on. Such is their choice. Others are happy but KNOW that there is more to offer. First, you must want. Why would you want? What is there to work toward? Why the pinacle and beyond, of course...The Creative-All.

The closer we are, the better. yes, it is in the air we breathe. Yes, it is in the water we drink, Yes, it is in the earth beneath our feet. Yes it is in the fire that warms us and gives us light. yes, it is in our Gods and Goddesses. It is in us and around us and yet...we still hold ourselves somewhat apart. Perhaps it is a fear of losing the very things that make us individual. Perhaps it is an unwillingness to give up control. It is not like the Borgs of Star Trek. The closer we are, the more we become one with the All and less "self" (as in "thinking only of ourselves and not oof others"). It's more a return to the Maker for all time. It's a homecoming and not a brief visit, such as between life cycles.