The waters may seem fine at first. But dive head first.
Level one: This is what we call the subconsciousness. Here is where the seat of our emotions resides. Dormant feelings, thoughts, and ideas that have yet to rise are existent here. Each one of those ideas, thoughts, or feelings are like particles of air, clumping into air bubbles that float to the top, to rise up into the air of consciousness.
And eventually they will reach the bay of consciousness.
How do these ideas, thoughts, or beliefs come to rise in the first place?
It’s called life.
Biotic beings are the reason why we live. Why these ideas exist in the first place. You may ask, but which biotic beings are we talking about? It’s not of the millions of fish that pass and go in the memory of our life, colored and shaped in the myriads, but it’s the underwater flora that give us the breaths of inspiration.
Let’s say you have an idea to write a book to help others. That idea may start out as a suggestion in the form of a word. That word may be “help”. It will float in the sea of your dreams upwards towards the surface of subconsciousness, eventually rising up, popping it’s bubble of epiphany, and float to the bay of consciousness and realize itself.
So what is the bay of consciousness, really?
It’s where dreams and reality coincide. The island of the subconscious soul is the place where all your reality takes place, and the sea of dreams is where all your dreams take place. But the bay of consciousness is the twilight of both.
So then…how do these spiritual flora birth ideas, thoughts, and feelings in the first place?
It’s simple really. One day, a seed of life was planted in the depths of the subconscious ocean floor. Then the cycle of life repeat, and the spiritual aqua-biotic flora give inspiration to the rest of creation.
Level two: this is called the unconsciousness. There’s a cliff on the ocean floor of the sea of dreams that overlooks an abyss of darkness. The darkness harbors lightlessness and immense pressure. As we plunge down, we will find nothing but void, an empty hollow core. Light can feign but escape. Darkness is incessant. Pressure is powerful. No one wants to be here. You see no wakefulness here. You only see a deep slumber. It’s physically impossible to be here. This is the unreality of our soul. And yet, we can plunge into it if we need to. And this is where death itself is breached.
Suddenly, you will see a sliver of light. A ball of white light that entices the senses is visible. It may please the senses, but something seems…fishy…
If you come close to it, you will be able to see your face illuminated. But suddenly…you see something far, far uglier. You see a set of giant sword-sharp jaws and colorless eyes hovering behind the attached lamp, about to snap at you.
Level three: this is called the collective unconsciousness. This is the cesspool of the darkest confines of mankind. And here you see the angler fish from the brink of darkness. If you gaze into the abyss long enough…it will gaze back at you. And if you try to fish here…you will be the one being fished.
Here, the aquatic fauna don’t seem like fauna at all. They seem…hellish. They are so obscure, ugly, and scary, you’d wish you never slipped off that cliff. It’s an alien world in the collective unconscious, a dimension of terror. Things you never wished to see might be seen here. This is no longer the sea of dreams…this is…the abyss of nightmares.
Great evil that may way heavy on our soul reside here. The pressure is too powerful. The darkness is too cruel. The demons are too daunting. And the parts of people you’d never thought possible can be seen here.
This is dimension polar opposite from righteousness. You don’t want to stay here. It’s torture here. It’s a self-perpetuated hell, waiting to happen. And you won’t. Indeed here, it is transient. Somewhere else though, beyond time, space, and imagination, it’s eternal.
80. And they say: "The Fire shall not touch us but for a few numbered days:" Say: "Have ye taken a promise from Allah, for He never breaks His promise? or is it that ye say of Allah what ye do not know?"
81. Nay, those who seek gain in evil, and are girt round by their sins,- they are companions of the Fire: Therein shall they abide (For ever). [Surah Al-Baqarah 80-81]
Some people may have experienced a fraction of what Hell may be like on this present Earth. That fraction is a fraction within a fraction. Within a fraction within a fraction within a fraction within a…
Why? Because the Hellfire is eternal!!! And every fraction of time within it is meaningless, because what will it amount to? Endless torture!!! So you must do everything within every ounce of your soul to avoid going into it!!! This is an eternity at stake here!
Wait. I just saw it. From the angler’s light, a bubble is rising. It’s rising. Let’s follow it.
It’s passing the demonic fish faces. It’s passing the brink of darkness. It’s passing the cliff. It’s passing into the light. It’s rising up from the ocean floor. It’s rising up through the sea blue waters. It’s passing the myriads of different beautiful fish. It’s passing beyond the beyond the beyond…and now…pop.
Epiphany has struck. The epiphany of one word: Hell. And it’s mixed into the air. That epiphany of an idea has mixed with the air. And now, it’s traveling down the jet stream, into the bay of consciousness.
Are you ready to make the subconscious conscious? This is where your dreams and reality twilight. This is where the sea water mixes with the fresh.
"He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition." (Quran, 25:53) And now, land ahoy! You have breached consciousness again. And you’ve returned with great bounty. You have returned with the bounty of an idea. And the idea is that…
You do whatever it takes to avoid going to Hell. This means even if it means your life.
"And of mankind is he who would sell himself, seeking the Pleasure of Allâh. And Allâh is full of Kindness to (His) slaves." [Qu’ran, 2:207]