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In a May 1995 spiritual retreat, I experienced a lucid mental period of about an hour or less. While in this non-ordinary state of consciousness, I shared my momentary intuitive awareness of certainty that:
It came 'out of the blue' and I just knew it was the truth, and that was that. This is the first spiritual experience that I had which informed me of the reality of any life after death, or even of any kind of truly metaphysical information whatsoever.
As my spiritual quest progressed, various information that I encountered in my personal studies did not seem to fit (theo-) logically with this revelation. While I didn't mean to seem that I was keeping score, I would be somewhat uneasy for a number of years by the idea of how to reconcile a universal need for divine justice that would give human life any coherent meaning, with everyone achieving eternal life regardless of their moral behavior.
One day much later I laughed while recognizing that this first experience of gnosis, or directly revealed divine knowledge did not include a detail that I had unknowingly and automatically assumed. Specifically, while it was somehow revealed to me that we will all live forever, it was not revealed that we would all be enjoying ourselves.