John Ege
3 min readMay 22, 2022

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So, Rip. Yes, you're a ghost. What you're experiencing, if you'll permit some prose that almost sounds like a prologue to the Twilight Zone, is a holographic interface that allows you to complete a life review. Yes, this was your life. Is your life. Will be? Semantics! Your entire life review happens in seconds. Seconds isn't really fair, because there's no time in our dimenson. You might say it's over in the blink of an eye, but as a ghost you only have an eye if you want to have an eye.

And you're right, there is no hell. There are parts of this life review that feels like hell. So after we complete this life review, you will take the holographic goggles off, if that's interface you used... There are lots of interfaces in our dimension. We have Star Trek holodecks that makes TNG look like a cartoon interface, gainy, pixelated, fuzzy when you bump your head on the screen. Anyway, you'll take a break at your favorite place, interacting with friendly ghosts. All the ghost love you, it's just there are so many ghosts now, always was, always will be, that we tend to have our preferred ghost groups who we tarry with, though you could corespond to any ghost. After your break, it's back to work and second level of life review is to experience the life of every person you directly and indirectly influenced, for good or bad. This could take a moment, sort of...

Many ghost don't like that part. They call that hell. We don't make them do that. It's just the fastest way to learn from our mistakes. Celebrities are more likely to call this part this hell, cause can you imagine how many they influenced, good or bad? That doesn't mean you want to do the opposite. We have ghost monks over here that were pretty prideful, "I did a whole life and didn't hurt a single soul! Not even a worm or mosquito died on my watch!" Yeah, mountain topping it, living in a box, failing to interact, you might as well have not gone to Earth at all. We're not mad, you did learn somethings about austerity and discipline, yay you! but next life, let's actually try to engage in the game.

When you're done with the second degree and third degree, all they way up to the 6th degree and you see how Kevin Bacon was influenced by just your breathing, and if you want to, you could review any life in Aksashic records. Book, goggles, however you wish to interface it. Every book is a complete life, and you can enter as if you the protagonist. Or the antagonist. Or any of the characters. You could be that fly on the wall. The desk. The window people looked out of. The mirror. Every book ever written by humans is a universe as full as the library that contains the whole...

Are you a ghost? A dearly, beloved ghost. I can't wait to finish this book so I can read yours! I don't recommend mine. It's a pretty scary, full of anxiety book, only, I can't point to the shadow I am precisely scared of so I am jumping at anything, which if you were to play back with the right soundtrack, it might be charmingly amusing. When I am done reading this, I am going to send an application to John Williams to redo my life score. I hear he's busy, but in a place where there's no time, maybe he'll get back to me soon enough.

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John Ege
John Ege

Written by John Ege

LPC-S, Director for MUFON, TX, and father of 1... Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery.

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