portal to heaven

I've been thinking of a movie, Cocoon. A bunch of aliens had to leave planet Earth in a hurry and they didn't have enough room on their spaceship for everyone. Some aliens were left behind. These aliens that were left behind were sealed into some kind of pods and left at the bottom of the ocean, just off California.

As the movie opens, Brian Dennehy, the head alien, rents a boat so he and his alien crew can retrieve all the cocoons at the bottom of the ocean and bring their comrades back to their planet. Brian wears a disguise most of the time, looking just like a human. Everyone on his crew wears human disguises but every once in awhile, the viewer gets a glimpse of their 'true' nature: the aliens are pure radiance. When they shed their human costumes, they are pure, radiant light.

So, the crew goes out to the ocean each day and brings in a few cocoons. Then they put the cocoons in a swimming pool, to keep them safe until they can all board the ship home. Brian rented a mansion with a great indoor pool to store his comrades-in-the-pods until the time came to put them on the spaceship home.

This pool is next door to a senior citizen center. Some of the seniors start sneaking into the pool, just to go swimming. And all of the seniors who swim in the pool are rejuvenated. All their aches and pains go away. Illnesses go into remission. It gradually dawns on these seniors that the pool has a 'fountain-of-youth' affect on them. They noticed, of course, the pods at the bottom of the pool and they are curious, but for the most part, they are harmless old folks enjoying their respite from old age, enjoying renewed vigor.

The plot goes on. The old folks get carried away. One of the pods is broken open and the alien contained in the pod dies: we see its lifeforce get snuffed out. That part is  sad.

Brian, the head alien, forgives everybody. And then he offers to bring the old people back to his planet, where they will be forever young and happy. Some of the old people agree to go, some agree to stay and age normally, accepting their mortality.

The thing I loved about Cocoon when it first came out was the image of the alien beings as being pure, radiant light. I have had some visions where I saw myself with such radiance, as well as having seen others that way. At the time the movie came out, I often got a vision when I meditated that whispered to me "It is time to reveal your heart to the world" and then a light would begin to emanate from my chest, growing ever more glowing and radiant until I was nothing BUT light. I loved this meditative experience and those light beings in the movie looked just like my glowing, irridescent heart looked in my vision.

Nowadays, however, I am beginning to think that the Eagle Park Pool has special energy, similar to the energy in the pool in Cocoon. There are no pods in this public pool. But there is a great radiance. Light, light, light.

I could be wrong but I am starting to think that the Eagle Park Pool is a portal to heaven. Maybe I am gathering heavenly, happy power in its clear, blue, light-filled water. I seem to get a jolt of ecstasy during my hour in the pool and this zap of wonderful floats through the rest of my day with me. And then I get another zap the next day.

I am happy. Me like happy.