I learned long ago that when a thing defies rational explanation then it is because I lack a complete understanding of the facts. - Stephen R. Lawhead

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. Rather, it is the perception shared by nearly all sentient beings that our conscious lives are not bounded by this time and space. We are not merely lumps of animate matter. We are living spirits — we all feel this innately. And in our deepest hearts, we know that we can only find ultimate fulfilment in union with the supreme spiritual reality — a reality that appears, even during this earthly life, to take us beyond the narrow limits of time.

People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.

Certainty sent a sick dread snaking through his gut: he was being stalked.