One of my favorite movies is “Dead Man” with Johnny Depp, which is a strange film, actually.
Set in the old US West, it’s really a wanderer’s tale － an outsider’s life-crisis on planet earth.

Depp plays the role of “William Blake” (not the English poet), a gentle soft accountant, gone to the train line’s end (a town called “Machine”) for a job at a factory filled with rough dirty men.

But his desk job isn’t available, he has no money to return, and soon he falls into big trouble.
On the run, he meets a native Indian named “Nobody” and together they return to final safety.

At the end of the movie, some very deep truth about ‘the end of the world’ is spoken:

“The ancient truth that the world will be consumed by fire
at the end of 6000 years is true, as I have heard from Hell.

The whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite and holy.
Whereas it now appears finite and corrupt…

This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.

‘If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is － infinite’.”

I don’t think earth will be destroyed by fire, but it’s clear that major changes are coming.

More likely, the idea is symbolic:

‘when false mind born of ignorance is destroyed by inner kundalini fire
(through yoga, meditation, and true spiritual practice),
then perception is cleansed, and divine glory is seen everywhere.’

From normal 3D perception it’s true, our world of things & people appears finite & corrupt.
In the future, human perception will be cleansed － in 4th density all will see this holy creation.
I believe that time is coming soon, but it’s not yet here, and we shouldn’t pretend it is.

Yet, the material-social world only appears finite and corrupt due to confused perception.
Cleansing doors of perception is the heart of spiritual work, meditation, genuine mind healing.
Many people speak of it, but very few do that work deeply, including today’s spiritual leaders.

As doors of perception are cleansed here in 3D, we begin to live this “infinite and holy” now.

Satori and all true enlightenment experience is a contact and re-union with infinite holy life.
Again, many speak of it but few truly understand － personal self disappears in real satori.

For most of us, the beauty, splendor, and grandeur of creation is rarely remembered.
Yet, glorious infinite life is everywhere, inside and out, known by those with eyes to see.

And how will humanity’s future awakening come about?
The teaching above indicates that it will come “by an improvement of sensual enjoyment...”

Our doors of perception will also be cleansed by return to body and nature, heaven and earth.

But this isn’t the same as thoughtless sensual pleasure-seeking － our world loves sensual enjoyment today, but gains little spiritual awakening from it. Wars and injustice are still here.

The important word is “improvement” － what is ‘improved’ sensual enjoyment?

Most likely, it means sensual pleasure set in a spiritual context, ‘improved’ by greater awareness.

Sensual enjoyment based on true harmlessness (Sanskrit: “ahimsa,” considered the highest yoga).
Based on honest communication, community care, serious self-responsibility and respect for all.

At the end of “Dead Man,” William Blake and Nobody return to the source, both heaven-bound.
This world of grime, deceit, and violence is no longer for them － at last they are totally freed.

At the end of the movie “Syriana,” the final words of a young Pakistani jihadi repeats the point:

“the next world is the true life, the next world is the true life.”

Yes, it is true － but again, our vision of reality/creation is limited by the doors of perception.

Those who fully purify heart-mind and complete their return to the infinite holy world, here －
These are the great heroes among us, silent and invisible, radiant suns supporting all in light.

Scott Mandelker
San Francisco, CA
May 13, 2008