Please Read:
Pyramid
Excerpt:
I knew I was dead, but I understood. The temple was for the dead as it was for the living. I dragged my body across the desert regardless of the claims reality had on it and on me. Like a staggering drunk, I placed my foot upon that first step. Climb, I willed myself, climb. Slowly, I pulled myself up into their heaven one unsure step at a time. I would know what the scientists would not know, would not see. The temple was for me, and I for the temple. It longed that I should climb its stairs and know what had been forgotten.
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