For many centuries, research suggests that since the earliest humans, there has been a fascination about eternity. It’s easy to understand that the TV will run forever unless it is turned off. That’s because it indeed can be turned off. Eternity is oblivious to human perceptions of time. Waiting in a line to use the bathroom may seem an eternity but no matter what happens, there is a finite conclusion so waiting in line is not eternity. Eternity has no end.

So what does eternity feel like? Religions speak of great societies in eternity, an eternity ruled, by the way, by human perceptions that have emotions – that is, living human emotions. All well and good but what does uninhabited eternity feel like?

Staring at the stars may be a way to feel eternity – if one can press beyond them and feel the endlessness beyond them. It is possible to look at loved ones in a family and sense the continuity provided by an eternity that allows for continuous existence.

Not intending to be quixotic, mariner can sense eternity by listening to Frankie Laine singing ‘Ghost Riders in the sky’. On the one hand, there is a human circumstance to provide focus. On the other hand, one can see beyond the riders and perceive endlessness. No stars get in the way or conjured heavens attached to the future – just empty eternity and the riders never stopping for rest at a human rest stop, on and on and on they ride.

One can sense that the riders may never be seen again.

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Ancient Mariner