The Transcendentalist 
My Spiritual Journey
Original Screenplay Outline By Kurt Kawohl
Book author of "Transcendentalism - A New Revelation"
Copyright 2002 All rights reserved 
 kkawohl1@cox.net   
http://transcendentalists.org
http://transcendentalism.us

Synopsis: A successful California business man who is a realist, spiritual but non-religious is taken on a spiritual journey that reveals the beginning of God and the universe and mankind's purpose on earth.

SCENE 1 - MORNING
INT:

Kurt wakes from a restless night’s sleep, saunters to the breakfast table and is greeted his wife Inge as she stunningly gazed and points at the television. 

TV COMMENTATOR (screaming)   

They just flew an airplane into the World Trade Center and another one is heading for the other building. 

The TV screen shows a thick cloud billowing from a damaged structure and people are crying and screaming as they are running away from the collapsing skyscraper. Another airplane is heading for the second World Trade Center building and hits the building, the explosion rocks the filming scene and it goes blank.

The evening news media portrays that some passengers had phoned their relatives who confirmed that the attacks had been carried out by Muslim terrorists who commandeered the planes and repeated the phrase "God is great" before the planes flew into the buildings.  

KURT 
(TO INGE)

I've had prior business dealings with several Muslims. They, like my dad, were deeply religious. Just a couple of days ago Malik the electrician spent several hours with me explaining how the Islam religion requires prayer five times daily and forbids the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Now I am puzzled, how can devout religious people kill others while claiming that God is great? Religious, good people aren't capable of such hideous, perverted acts.

Kurt stops by at the local book store after work that evening and picks up a copy of "Muhammad" by Karen Armstrong. He reads some of the pages out loud to his wife. The book explained about how Muhammad had lived and formed Islam. Kurt reads the book deep into the night and again for the next two days and evenings until he is finished with it. 

SCENE 2 - NIGHT
INT:

As Kurt lays next to his wife Inge that night, the television clock shows it to be 12:35 A.M. Inge is sleeping peacefully but Kurt is restless. The words, "how is this possible" keep repeating themselves over and over in his mind as he goes into a deep meditation. One and a half hour goes by, it is now 2:05 A.M.

Suddenly Kurt winces and cups his head in both hands. He feels a sharp excruciating pain in his head. He closes his eyes momentarily and when he opens them again he feels a floating sensation. He looks down. It seems like his translucent self, his spirit, is staring down at himself looking at the clock with his wife sleeping next to him. He is surrounded by a beautiful, pleasant bright light.

A supersonic exhilarating burst of energy overtakes him and he experiences his spirit being transmitted, whisked at a powerful speed as if through a light tunnel, seemingly being drawn to a receiver at the other end. His entire life is revealed to him during the seemingly long journey. 

Words within Kurt's spirit, yet from an outside source, softly spoken words, as if in a poetic form, are interacting with his spirit that and saying: 

FADE IN: 
 
HEAVENLY VOICE (V.O.) 

Kurt, do not be afraid, you are seeing the pithiness of your life. Your spirit, the relenting of the mind dominates your senses, your "I" is absolved within its hold. You wonder, am I the I that lives within this spirit? The conscience troubles your understanding of the two.

KURT

My spirit I beseech you where does this journey end?

HEAVENLY VOICE

I am the spirit of your ancestors, I now control this voyage, let meditation absolve the bonds within you and freely go where you must go.

Most of your questions will soon disappear even though one part of the you is like a child, its mind seeks answers.

SCENE3 - CONTINUOUS

Kurt is overwhelmed with anticipation. The spirit the mind is one of understanding. Scenes wash in like a tide, he goes back to his beginning. 

A child, Kurt, is born in the Baltic, in Kantweinen, Lithuania. Within three years the mother with her parents and three sons must flee from the Russians, must flee oppression.

World War 2 brings a chaos like never before. The father is inducted into the German Army, he must remain to serve the cause. 

Refuge is now in Germany where peace has finally arrived in the land where the confusion began.

Kurt's father, now a prisoner of war as five more years  pass before the he is again united with his family.

The family, seeks then a new beginning, in the USA, the New World, the promised land. 
Promises fall short, life again is a struggle. Twelve more years pass, then for Kurt double pneumonia sets in.

Kurt was taken back to 1956 when he was fifteen years old. His father took him to a doctor who diagnosed it to be double pneumonia gave him a penicillin injection and recommended immediate hospitalization. Kurt thought that he was going to die. His family had no medical insurance or money, so his father took him home to recuperate. Kurt remembered  the drive home vividly. Every breath was painful and his chest felt as though a great weight was upon it. He watched cars and trucks drive by, and wondered how people could make long term plans when life was so unpredictable. 

While Kurt was recuperating he reads the Bible diligently, then one night he has his first experience of his spirit interacting with a spiritual existence. 

KURT 
(To SPIRIT 1)

I remember it now. It felt as if my spirit left my body and it experienced being in a place with a gathering of souls or spirits. I sensed great peace, tranquility and ecstasy, a rapture that was beyond a person's imagination. I felt as if I was a part of ALL, a part of God. I was mentally communicating and in sync with everyone, including not only some of my deceased acquaintances and relatives, but many of the prophets of the bible and historical people I had read about. 

There was no dominant force, no forceful leader. I somehow knew who everyone was. Every thought interacted with the whole community. I had no questions; it seemed as if everything was revealed and crystal clear. I saw the universe stretched out with spirits engaged in mental interaction like master craftsmen contemplating the creation of a new frontier.

When I told my father who was a preacher of the Lutheran Faith about my experience he dismissed it abruptly and told me that this "supreme spirit," this God that my spirit had witnessed, was not the God of the bible and he told me to pray for my salvation. We never talked about it afterwards.

(continued)

As the years passed, I eventually thought that this spiritual interaction had been a dream.

As the years passed, I continued my life.

I am in my youth now, 18 years since birth

I had dragons to slay, to conquer with mirth.

The armed services I then did join, to see Germany again

And to my surprise, an angel I met, a beautiful girl full of joy.

She stole my heart, she made me whole.

Could this be love, I wondered? 

Should I let my spirit bond with this creature of beauty

Should I ask her to share my joys, my pains, my life?

As love transcends our spirits unite. 

Our souls are like one. 

She is now my wife.

FADE IN: 

Kurt is jerked back to the present, to his spiritual interaction with Spirit 1. The flight, the transmission of his spirit has ended. He feels an engulfing love, he feels like he has arrived at his spiritual receiver.

CUT TO SCENE 4 - MOMENTS LATER
EXT.

Kurt experiences being with a gathering of souls or spirits. There is Jesus, Abraham, Moses, and even Muhammad whom he just read about and many, many more. There were some of his deceased acquaintances and relatives, mom, dad and his brother Eric was there. 

KURT
 
How can this be? Are you God, are you the deity of whom my father preached? 
Wait, I see it now. I am a part of time. A apart of God, the Great Spirit of all past. 
I am within, tapping the mind of creation. The beauty is beyond belief. The peace a calm relief. 

"Am I in heaven; where is God"? 

KURT'S FATHER - (looks age 40, 
Died 1979, age 71)
smiles lovingly as he approaches Kurt 

Kurt, we all together make up God. Hereafter when I say I, I mean us, we, the entire spiritual unity.

God, the God from the beginning of God did not come from nowhere and plays no magic tricks on man. I did not create the earth by casting spells.

I had a humble beginning the same as man, yet my beginning was at the dawn of spirituality.

My wisdom grows as more spirits 

unite after the cessation of physical life after much physical strife. 

Throughout time I have been named God, Allah, Jehovah, The Great Spirit, and many more.

I do not judge man for his vanity or naivety to be the one who claims to please me the most. 

I am easy to please. I require very little. I only want you to do what is best for mankind.

I will bless you and wish you well. I will inspire your mind and you will accomplish the unfathomable.

I require no worship. I need nothing from man. I am self sufficient. I am spirit.

Develop your spirit wisely, the best that you can. Live your life for the betterment of man. 

Your spirit will soon be with me and then together we will:

See and traverse the universe. There are many wonders to behold. 

Your spirit will soar. You will partake in all the wisdom that been gathered from the beginning of time. The stars will be your playground. 

Here you can play with the animals, be with your loved ones, listen to the greatest opera, stage or musical performances, or simply relax next to a bubbling brook and enjoy the scenery. 

You feel no pain, despair, heartache, or negative emotions. You are now One with me, you are with God my child.

 
KURT

This is the 21st Century yet many of our religious beliefs are still back in the Stone Age. We have outgrown beliefs in various Gods, is it now time to outgrow belief in a dictatorial God who controls, condemns and physically or spiritually punishes those who do not do his bidding?

KURT'S FATHER

A person’s spirit can at times interact with our spirit, the Spirit of God, but it depends on that person’s mind conditioning as to how that message is translated. That is why there are so many different religions. If one lived during a time when kings were the rulers, the mind often pictures God to be similar.

ALL roads that lead to God will bring the soul to its destination. God is a God for ALL & too large to fit into any one religion.
 
Spirituality is an interaction of man’s spirit with the Spirit of God. This interaction was often expanded upon by followers who added their own interpretations and gradually the original message was skewed to meet the agenda of  the newly formed religion. Most religions today are composed of so much added on dogma to a point where they are the culmination of their own politics and have lost the original meaning of spirituality.

The complexities, histories, and practices of religions have always been used to indoctrinate and keep new members from questioning the composition of the God that religions have created for the masses. This God was created to intimidate and brain-wash the gullible. True spirituality and a true God is self-sufficient and requires nothing from mankind.

If the medieval practices and the medieval beliefs of your main religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam that are based on superstitions were eliminated, then you could start building a rational and logical belief system that is based on truth and an understanding of spirituality. This is the value of truthfulness and rationality. 

The Spirit of God enlightens one in the mysteries of  God and the universe. If one peruses the scriptures, enlightenment of God can be achieved through our spirit's closer interaction with the Spirit of God. God is Spirit, omnipresent and omniscient. Meditation is the only essential in religion, everything else is nonessential ritual or conditioning. God is incorporeal, all that is spiritual in a spiritual state or dimension.  

The universe is the encompassment of ALL (matter, energy, space, time) that exists in a physical, material, tangible or intangible, natural or unnatural state in this dimension, Our soul contains the records of our spiritual life within the subconscious and it is composed of consciousness, awareness, thoughts, and emotions. 

 

KURT

But which is the true religion?

KURT'S FATHER

I will portray a scenario for you.

SCENE 6 - MOMENTS LATER

The souls of a Rabbi, a Christian minister, and a Islamic cleric appeared at an area that was marked "The Gates of Heaven". They eyed each other suspiciously. Peter (the gatekeeper) asked if there is a problem. 

The Rabbi told Peter , "Ours is the true religion. We have the word of God that this is so and it is written in the Torah that God said we are the chosen children of God, not the Christians or the Muslims."

The Christian minister said, "Jesus told us that he is the Son of God and that the only way to God was by following his teachings and that unless one is born again, one would not get into heaven. What Jesus said is the word of God and it is written in the Holy Bible". 

The Muslim cleric says, "Allah told Muhammad that he was the last true prophet and that everything that Allah told him was written in the Koran and that those who did not follow what was written there would not get into heaven". 

Other souls appeared and some sided with and gathered around each of their leaders, while some other souls who sided with no one entered directly through the gates of heaven. 

Eventually Peter told the souls who had gathered around the souls of their clerics, "Listen, in heaven there can be no disagreement and until you all are in agreement, you have to move to the Purgatory area". 

No agreement was reached and eventually the souls died (Hell) because souls who were not with God could not exist. 

 KURT'S FATHER

Having tunnel-vision or being closed-minded without compassion for the belief of others can be bad for the body on earth and suicide to the soul. Most religions have the same goals and all who live righteously will have their soul united with God.  

Abraham according to Genesis was the first person with whom God chose to have a special relationship. His spirit as well as those of several others after him interacted with the Spirit of God; this was misinterpreted and claims were made by others that God had physically spoken with him. Soon thereafter God was viewed as having human-like features and one who performed great miracles on earth. Stories snowballed and by the time they were written down many others claimed to have physically conversed with God. 

The God of Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus and other Prophets, is the same as the God of today who wants all souls to coexist in peace and tranquility for eternity. You can not see or physically talk with God, but your spirit can unite and can be blessed and guided by God's Spirit to accomplish the seemingly impossible. You can not physically control our spirit which only has interaction with your conscience. 

God, also known as Allah, Yahweh, Lord, Supreme Being, Jehovah, Spirit of God, Supreme Spirit, etc., is a spirit of peace. When the body dies, the deserving spirit or soul is received by God into a peaceful coexistence with other souls for eternity. The souls of many Prophets, philosophers, holy men, your deceased relatives and even the simplest souls who by their love of humanity and exemplary living have helped to shape the lives of other will be here. 

Here you are given many examples of the structure of God. Your life on earth is to prepare you for the beauty and rapture of the hereafter. You are there to accumulate experiences of feelings and the beauty of every organism that surrounds you; also the misery, pain and death of the body that demonstrates to you the futility of your physical lives.

Your spirit can often control the well-being of your body. With inspiration and blessings from the Spirit of God, your spirit very much like the wind, can carry you through your life's journey and experience the beauty of God's creative powers or one can choose to reject this interaction and muddle through life with no purpose, feeling empty, worthless and lonely. You can resonate despondency and gloom or bloom like the wildflower, bringing joy to many who have contact with you and live your lives with joy and the knowledge that you have a reason for living. 

Scene 7 - LATER

A week after his dramatic spiritual experience following 9-11-01, Kurt had another spiritual experience that was in a progression which seemed to last throughout the entire night. His spirit was weightless, uninhibited by any resistance or external influences; he could travel to any star or planet instantly, explore the beauty of the universe, and still be in sync with God. 

Scene 8
 
His spirit observed the entire history and the evolution of the universe and peoples varying perceptions of Allah/God, as if in a fast-forward film. 

Scene 9

His spirit witnessed the beginning of physical rational life in the universe, the bonding of the first two souls that was the beginning of a spiritual unity. 

Scene 10

His spirit witnessed the development of mankind and man’s first perception of God from the story of Adam & Eve. 

Scene 11

His spirit witnessed Abraham & Moses, their quest into spirituality, their interaction with God and the beginning of Judaism. 

Scene 12

His spirit witnessed God’s interaction with Jesus & his life and death. His spirit witnessed the beginning of Christianity & the senseless killings in the Crusades; 

Scene 13

God’s interaction with Muhammad, the beginning of the Islam faith & the Arab struggles. 

Scene 14

His spirit witnessed the senseless Twin Towers  tragedy of 9-11-01. 

SCENE 15

KURT'S MOTHER HAD DIED EARLIER THAT YEAR AT AGE 93 BUT NOW SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, LIKE KURT REMEMBERED HER AT ABOUT AGE 40.

FADE IN: 

KURT'S MOTHER 

Son, your spirit has seen that everything in the universe follows the universal laws which separate the physical and the spiritual existence. Energy is power, vigor, liveliness, intensity. It is a measurable quantity, without reference to its nature or source. Energy, or life is a fundamental attribute and function of the universe.

Your bodies build up and harness a minute amount of spiritual energy that is transferred into the spiritual dimension upon physical death. Then this spiritual energy is limitless because it lacks resistance and this energy can assimilate as a unity or be separate and individual. 

It is this spiritual energy  that is God. It is a composition of souls, the progressive accumulative spiritual intellect of the universe of every soul that has passed from the physical universe into the spiritual universe. It can create a spiritual existence of beauty that is beyond human imagination. 
 
Everything in the universe and in the spiritual realm had a beginning, the difference is that in the spiritual existence time continues indefinitely, even time reversal invariance is a possibility.

SCENE 16

Kurt received messages that seemed to say that mankind is on earth to learn and accumulate knowledge.  

Kurt

So what must we do to change our ways?

KURT'S MOTHER 

A religious ideology that encompasses the blending of major religions would require the major emphasis to be on spirituality rather than the dogmas tied to superstitions that have been carried over from medieval times. 

A reexamination within each major religion would require them to:

Admit that the prophets interaction with God was with their spirit rather than any direct physical contact and that miracles are the results of the mind’s accomplishments.

Accept that Jesus was a man & died a man; He was a prophet, a messenger of God. His spirit/soul (He) is now a part of God, so if one says Jesus is now God one is correct. There is no other God besides the God that Jesus, Muhammad, Abraham, etc. are now a part of. 

Claims that Muhammad was the last prophet would have to include the concept that new messengers of God will be a reality as long as mankind exists.

Agree that God is spirit & owns nothing & created nothing. We guided the development of the universe like a Master Planner; God does not command anything or anyone & "He" does not need to order anyone around. God is self-sufficient & needs nothing from man.

SCENE 17

KURT

"But what is my spirit, what is my soul and where did it come from?" 

KURT'S MOTHER

Your spirit is not heaven sent, it develops in mankind. The soul encompasses the spirit. Spiritual revelations or experiences are only possible through a spiritual interaction with the Spirit of God. Physical revelations, seeing revelations, devils, demons, angels, and seeing spirits are definitely all "subjective" and mostly based on superstitions.

The power of the mind with inspiration from God has performed many miraculous healing to the body. Enlightenment is a state of intellectual or spiritual awareness, the process of this spiritual awareness is translated by the mind. An aural experience is the mind's interpretation of either a spiritual or intellectual interaction with the subconscious which can also be considered the spirit. Any translation is subject to the mind's conditioning, hence, when the interceder, the mind is enlightened, it translates the reception accordingly.
Every person is born with a spirit. A child’s spirit is a part of the mother's spirit which is passed down to the fetus and is then separated from its host at birth. It remains partially spiritually connected to the past host until it is capable of receiving its own data by the development of the child's reasoning capabilities at about 18 months from its birth. At that time the spirit separates from the mother and the child develops it's own spirit. 

The spirit that has established lines of communications with Spirit of God is transmitted to the spiritual realm, filtered and cleansed of all negative emotions; then it is received, it bonds with us. When a personality disorder affects the data input process, data is filtered. Brain injury does not supersede the soul, at that point data input simply ceases. If one seems to have severely impaired reasoning capabilities it does not necessarily mean that reasoning capabilities are not, or never were present. Sometimes reasoning capabilities can not be displayed or communicated to another. 

The mind is unable to  consciously communicate with the spirit. The conscience is the only communicator with the spirit or soul. The conscience relays information to the spirit unless the conscience is anesthetized by immoral acts or evil deeds. 

The spirit or soul exists in the collective mental processes of the subconscious. The subconscious part of the mind and is also where the mental processes of creativity originate. The conscience adds to and stores life experiences with the spirit/soul. If the conscience is anesthetized by other than righteous conduct the existence of the spirit gradually fades and is eventually extinguished. 

A deserving (clean) spirit consists of ethics, morality, good deeds, kindness, consideration for and helping others; being "righteous" insures the survival of the soul. When the body dies, any soul that is not transmitted, and has not bonded with God, dies; it simply ceases to exist. 

The conscience is guided by its capacity to disseminate between pure and improper acceptable social norms. A determination is made by the conscience to abide by either the pure and proper, or to stretch the norm. 

Deeds contrary to purity eventually anesthetizes the conscience and lines of communication with the spirit and God are severed. Evil is not adaptable to, or compatible with Pure Intelligence. The cultural norm deduces acceptable proper behavior. If one lives thereby, the conscience is clear and no deity in the spiritual realm will judge or condemn anyone. 

The spirit is in the subconscious and often controls what one writes and thinks. The soul and spirit are often considered identical, though the soul has also been referred to as the vessel for the spirit. 

The only physical effect that you can derive from the Spirit of God is by way of  receiving inspirations and blessings. In order to accomplish this, lines of communication through righteous living, need to be established between your spirit and the Spirit of God during your lifetime in order for your soul to survive after your physical demise. Any soul or spirit, upon a person's physical death, that does not bond or is not transmitted by you and received by us ceases to exist. 

When God we interacts with you it is like a father interacting with a 2 year old child. Your mind has to translate what the spirit has assimilated. It is the knowledge of everything in the past, not the future. The future makes its own path & is not predetermined.

The Ultimate Truth is indecipherable by the human mind and can only be divulged to the spirit which also often misinterprets its meaning, hence we have various religions and beliefs. 

You have now been given a task by the Spirit of God to make an attempt to bring common sense to a belief in God. NO religion is wrong. All who abide by the religious principles of peace, love and compassion for others will have their souls united with God. 

The "Men of God" who contributed to the compilation of the scriptures of the Bible were inspired by God to give you guidelines to live by. 

SCENE 18

The spiritual return into Kurt's body was again like a burst of energy...and immensely puzzling & draining of the mind which attempted to reassemble what the spirit had witnessed.  

Kurt begins his mission to modernize religions and eliminate superstitions therein.

SCENE 19

KURT

As I reminisce now 45 years after my first spiritual journey

I still see my beautiful wife as she was at age 18

I look at my two daughters, their families, their children.

I have proof that miracles really do happen 

When our choices are right.  I am often reminded 

Of the love that has held us together every day and night. 

But then I look back and wonder

Has the pithiness of my life

Had  the effect that was delegated to me?

FADE IN: 
 
HEAVENLY VOICE (V.O.) 

Your work is not yet done 

The beginning of God was many, many eons ago, 

You traveled with me to the start of time 

To the beginning of the universe and where life began 

That life form seemed  foreign, yet it is full of love

A rationality therefrom sprang  then two, then more 

The unity of spirit upon their demise began.

Now we will go back to your world, the start of man.

KURT

In the distance I saw a speck, like a kernel of sand 

Was that my land, my earth amongst the vast expanse?  

HEAVENLY VOICE

Yes, this is where your kind has fought over me 

And killed its kind. Come I will remind you, 

There was your Adam and your Eve

There also was Abraham, the leader of men 

His wife and his children and the strife that began

When he talked about his God 

It was the interaction of his spirit with ours 

That puzzled his mind

He began to pray and worship and his missions began. 

This guidance, though sometimes it has produced pain, 

Has served man well. Man needed a God to rely on

To know that his life is not in vain.

Then there was Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, 

My messengers who inspired their people

To lift their spirits when life seems bleak.

Often during the physical lives of my messengers

The viciousness of man came out of a need for survival, 

But if their spirit remained clean their soul is now a part of us.

The Crusades came, the killings, the enslavement 

They said that it was logical and rational

That God was like a king, a ruler, a dominator.

Who needed man’s worship and obedience

They built churches, temples and mosques

This was not God’s making, it is the want of man.

The tragedies of late has burdened your soul 

With an attempt to find answers.

We, the unity can guide and suggest , but it is up to you

To change the destiny of man. 

Man desires to fight but eventually this too will end.

So complete your mission  the best that you can.

KURT

Dear God I am but a simple man, I am not well learned. 

I have many shortcomings. Who will listen?

HEAVENLY VOICE

Fret not and do your best, this is all I ask.

Now go forth and perform your task.

Whimper not, stand proud and tall 

And you will be rewarded with the union of your soul

KURT

Again I am reminded of the pithiness of man.

How I wish that I had more time

To live it again. 

FADE OUT:

The Transcendentalist 
My Spiritual Journey
Original Screenplay by Kurt Kawohl
Copyright 2002 All rights reserved