We normally refer to eternal life as relating to an infinite state occurring after one’s natural death. However this strictly reflects its merely transcendent aspect. So with respect to the counterbalancing immanent aspect, eternal life equally refers to an infinite state existing before one’s natural birth, though in truth both of these states are totally interdependent as an ever-present reality continually renewed. Thus the pure mystical experience of oneness (which is equally an emptiness devoid of material phenomena), as a direct awareness of this ever present moment, entails the realisation that one has always already eternally existed in God and also destined to eternally exist in God as one’s essential indestructible being. One may wonder if this is this is so, why it so difficult to accept that one has already existed in an eternal now (which again is but the present moment continually renewed). It may help to see finite human existence therefore as the emergen