Mt. Colby kisses the heavens, a kind friend to skilled mountaineers and a dreadful foe to those unskilled who dare challenge her. This geological marvel surrenders her treasures unwillingly at times. The yearly statics of broken bones and bodies prove this fact; a sullen testimony to the benevolence or the malevolence of the shale monolith that blocks out the morning sun in the Eastern sky.
Two novice climbers, brothers Lawson and Edward McCaffrey, plan a week-end trek to conquer the summit of Mt Colby. One brother climbs to discover his future while the other climbs to forget his past. Will each soul reach his dream or become yet another statistic of death and sorrow?
“You are permanent spirit living within an impermanent physical body…you are not a permanent physical body living with impermanent spirit. Your body is not you…your spirit is you. You are not skin and sinew, blood and bones…this human body is the wrapping paper, the veneer, the packaging provided from a much greater entity. An entity that shall return to where love and joy are the norm and not the exception…your physical Self shall eventually return to the earth, in a timed cycle of life that lasts seven, eight, or perhaps nine decades…no more. Each time you make your way back to the physical world, your outer Self shall change; your body and your talents shall be different, and yet they shall be the same. You see, your spiritual Self always was and always shall be; it is the outer Self that looks differently, wrapped in an odd veneer at times, and a pleasant one at other times.”
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