Many people have encountered the other dimension and know this.

We think that because we do not see the Saints, the Virgin Mary, the Angels, or our loved ones who have passed away, they do not see us either.

A man asks how he can cope with the death of his beloved innocent child.

Death cannot truly be “dealt with.” It is something beyond every human ability.

Those who reach such spiritual heights, like Elder Joseph the Hesychast, to whom the Virgin Mary said, “I will take you on the day of my feast,” did not fear death. When the Feast of the Dormition came, and he was still alive, he became distressed and wondered, “Why am I still here? Why am I still alive, since the Virgin Mary said she would take me?”

We become distressed when we are about to die. He was distressed because he was still living.

For someone to reach such spiritual heights, a Christian life must come first—a life within the Church, with the sacraments, with deep prayer, with love, and with charity.

When a person lives this way, they will not grieve excessively either for their own death or for the death of someone they love. A Christian knows that everything does not end here.

Unfortunately, this is something we cannot truly understand unless we experience it ourselves.

We think that because we do not see the Saints, the Virgin Mary, the Angels, or our loved ones who have fallen asleep in death, they do not see us either. But they do see us.

This is a reality experienced by countless people throughout these two thousand years. They know that although they will grieve for the death of a loved one or for their own death, the grief only goes so far. Beyond that, they know they will meet again.

And this is something they know, not merely believe.

They know it in countless ways, including through encounters with people who passed away years earlier—sometimes even people they had never met—and yet those departed know them and communicate with them in many ways.

This is a story spanning two thousand years. Unless someone experiences it personally, they cannot easily accept it. It goes against ordinary logic. It is beyond logic and above logic.

Yet this knowledge rests on the understanding that God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — the God of the living, not of the dead.

This means that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all our loved ones are alive because God is the God of the living.

Many people have encountered the other dimension and know this.

Many have experienced people from that other reality coming into this one, speaking with us, communicating with us, and giving us certainty.

Either we go there and return, or they come here and return to where they came from. What remains is knowledge.

For two thousand years, Christians have known that death does not truly exist. What changes is only the form and manner of life.

Now we live in this way. When we close our eyes here, we open them somewhere else and continue living differently.

When Saints appear and speak to us, it is not imagination. It is not merely personal emotion, because they appear to others too and speak to others about things we ourselves have asked for. Therefore, it is real communication, not fantasy.

But unless someone experiences these things personally, they cannot fully accept them because we are trapped within rational thinking—within the logic that two plus two equals four.

That logic is overturned by the mystery of one and one and one being not three gods, but one God.

We must live these things to truly know them.