Our fear of death is attenuated if the ego weakens enough to merge with humankind.

But it is reignited as we contemplate the possibility of human extinction.

It can be eased by the hope of an improved successor species.

Yet all life is fragile, the Earth and Sun will not last forever. At the bottom of hope we still find despair.

The universe will run its course without us. Therefore be reconciled – finally merge your smaller and larger ego with the entire universe.

With the universe, as it races toward its dark cold heat death?

No, possibly toward the supersyrnrnetric transformation and a new Big Bang beginning.

There is no eternal progression to either doom or salvation, only a vast supercycle.

This is because we and the universe are in the temporal order, not in the eternal order.

But eternity is in the everlasting present moment. Live today and taste Eternity, which only Love can spell.