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My first Gut reaction to your posting at 285 is to cite a quotation of Paul(i'll find the scripture reference if the show me types wish it): "In Him we live, and move, and HAVE OUR BEING"(emphasis mine since I wish to differentiate that statement from what Hindu's and Buddhists might state).

The second reaction I have is to point interested parties to CS Lewis' work, The Great Divorce(meaning the great divide or split, or "fixed gulf" if you are a KJV purist) which describes a fictional bus ride from Earth, to Hell, and to Heaven. Lewis thru-out the book works to spring a multidimesional/temporal trap on the reader that leaves one breathless at the very end, in which our present reality looks very large to us, until we spend time in God's reality. and we realize that the entrance that the protagonist(written in first person) took into his kindom has shrunk into insignificance, as the protagonist has grown to fit the proportions of God's kingdom. The end of the book was totally shattering to my consciousness(like a cold slap in the ego), in the sudden finality, like a sleeper awakening from a God given dream, just before God was about to deliver the punch line....then again I don't want to give away too much of the book.