The Bardo - Barzakh

 Yesterday before sleeping

I was thinking about death

and it was a bit too late.

As I dwelt into the insight it gave

it did make me feel afraid 

how alone and on my own as soon as I die!

In dream I entered a place 

where it was a very old forest 

with a huge tree with creepers falling from it.

I came into it once.

Not remembering what happened.

And again I came back and I could see myself 

opening the curtain mad of the old creepers 

hanging surely from the same tree.

The creepers were greyish and very old, 

no age really so old.

On the way to it, 

I saw people walking straight to it.

I even remember the face of one famous actress 

and I was trying to shake them to wake up 

by grabbing and shaking them by the shoulders.

But they were in a trans like situation.

More like somnambulist though eyes were open.

Spirit told me

that this was the Bardo, Barzakh in islam.

It is the place where souls transit once they die 

and before they wake up.

And as I was in control there, 

this means I have defeated death :)

This sounds so reassuring.

I recall that I had read that if you can direct your attention

when you are asleep and yet in control 

this means you will be also once you die.

But this is not any dream, 

this was in the Bardo.

So I am glad and I hope I'll be in control once I die.

I also have been told 

that depending on our level of enlightenment 

we can choose where to reincarnate.

As there are 3 worlds.

The desire, the form and the formless.

Currently, we are living in the world of desire.

And there are better places than this Earth, 

which is not a so ideal place.

Well no kidding...

I will definitely never choose to reincarnate there.

PS: Though I do not remember most people I saw walking towards the place of death.

I remember one actress, she is young and I wonder if she will indeed die soon.

It won't astonish me, as she is decent. I find.

And people who are decent and got their peak time and yet can't keep being themselves in

this corrupted artistic world, may just not see their desire fulfilled and end up giving up.