Sky (or heaven?)What istranscience - active consciousness of transcendencyBy Cacildo Marques, Sao Paulo. Literally, transcience means "movingto besides the knowledge". It is possible to add the adjective"immanent", in order that the person has an clearer idea of theterm's construction. Moving to besides the immanent knowledge, or to the knowledgecircumscribed to the biological cycle of an individual, is for what the personsmust look to be imbued of transcience. SOCIETY. From the 7000 year B.C., with the beginning of the agricultureand other advancements, or even before that, certain individuals inside theirvillages started to speculate on the transcendence of the visible space and ofthe vital blow of each one. Almost the totality of the human beings was keepingon leading its daily life cutting firewood, hunting, fishing, gathering fruits,planting cereals and repairing the vegetal covering of his dwellings, withoutbeing preoccupying by the post-mortem. Thought, feeling, memory and will, allthese attributes seemed to be lost in the end of the biological time of eachone. But the appearance of those who were dying was, at least in the firsthours, that of someone who was sleeping a very deep sleep, so deep that theperson had not any more the cardiac beat. Therefore, in several cultures, alreadyaround the year 5000 B.C., the mightiest individuals had their bodies embalmedand mummified, waiting for a possible resurrection. RETURN. Many centuries went by and nomummified monarch returned to life. So, during this time a new conception of post-mortalitywas developed, from two great expectations: a) the resurrection does not dependon the preservation of the body, because it happens by the vital blow, thespecter, does not by the matter; b) since the resurrection does not depend onexpensive treatment on the corpse, since it is spectral, it is accessible notonly to aristocrats, but to all of the individuals who will get ready for it. JUDGEMENT.The ancients concluded also, after centuries of speculation, that the specterof the followers of the belief in the resurrection would have a future momentfor reapparition, in which those who carried out the recommendations of the wisemen would return, in the entirety of their specter. This moment was definedlike the "day of the judgement". This "day" can be aninstant, time of a flash of lightning, but it can be also a normal day of 24hours, one year, one century or an era. The very prepared persons resurge someweeks or months after their death. For the simple persons, the majority, a muchbigger period is necessary. Therefore the ancients "saw" that therewould be this "day". PATHS. There are two roads that lead tothe conscience of the necessity of the transcience: the "doctrinalfaith" and the "magistral epiphany". In the first case, theperson received education of somebody else and trusted piously. In the secondcase, in which the fact can be put upon the first one or not, the informationwas received by an experience of personal "meeting", at moment thatcan last a small fraction of second or a little more, after the person havebecome a master ("magister") of himself. DIMENSION. Those who deny thetranscendence up to the end know that the size of their life, in terms oflongevity, is