What is death?
Arguably, the greatest mystery that humanity has ever tried to solve.
As in all good stories, I shall start from...
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word, OM or AUM the primordial Sound that created the Uni-verse.

The Meaning of existence is, quite simply, to live in the moment.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Consciousness was created, both immanent and transcendent to the Creation. Consciousness is both the Uni-verse and the Fabric of

the Uni-verse. The Creator transcends all Creation and pervades all Creation, His or Her Nature and origins is and will remain the Supreme Mystery, unknownable and inscrutable.
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

Consciousness yearned to experience the Material plane of existence and in order to do so, It had to divide and incarnate into infinite streams. Once the First stream of Consciousness separated Itself from the Oneness, It bore witness to the energy of Creation and through Its act

of observing, the flux of infinite possibilities collapsed into the Material plane we inhabit.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Today, Quantum Physics is telling us that the basic components of our reality change their behaviour when observed by

an external witness and Quantum Entanglement describes how the infinitesimal particules that are the essence of the Uni-verse can be found in different locations simultaneously.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

In order for the innumerable rivulets of Consciousness to flow into manifestations, all memories of their origins would be erased and new ones created. Thus, the Journey back started; through joy and sufferance, love and hate. From the enchantment of youth to the greyness of old

Then and only then, once the gamut of human emotions is thoroughly experienced, every strand of the Fabric of the Uni-verse will return to the Fold. But the Path is twisted and long and full of pitfalls.
All that is learned will need to be forgotten, all that keep us shackled to

the mendacious glamours of Samsara must be abandoned and the original memories of who we truly are, must be regained. We are senile gods wandering blindly in the wrong direction, seeking always seeking for the Oneness whence we came from.

And death, death is just a momentary lapse of Consciousness, between one physical incarnation and the next.
How many times will we have to pass through the Ivory Gate, is a subjective matter and depends solely on the willingness of the individual to unlearn and abandon the Grey

Illusion of Maya and remember our divine nature.
What then? What will happen when we are welcomed back into the embrace of the Creator?
Well, we will have forgotten all about the Mysteries of the Material Sphere and again be longing to experience them.

The Dance will begin again with the same steps and the same music, amongst the seven Spheres; forever and ever.
AUM.
Auṃ maṇi padme hūṃ

Before I leave you, I would like to state that these are my personal considerations on the matter and as such might not resonate with many of you. I though have heard the synesthetic harmony of the celestial Spheres and since then the Sound is all there is and ever will be.