title: Turning Home: God, Ghosts and Human Destiny
author:  Paul F. Eno 
description: Mr. Eno dips into every and any branch of knowledge that might prove Unity (his constant theme) or break the bonds of mundane thinking. Welcome is his assertion, not only that the paranormal is entirely normal (and hence a misnomer), but also that without it, we cannot reach our destiny: the next step, the big picture. --Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, July 2008
zlib_text: **The Gates**
  
   **of Eden**
  
   _ **Brian Stableford**_
  
  _As you move along the corridor the hands sprout from the walls, their slow,
  slimy fingers groping_ _for your arms and your ankles. The cobwebs catch your
  face, caressing you, and you feel the eyes_ _of the great fat spiders watching
  you. They don't move, but some-how that's no mercy._
  
  _There are ghosts nearby, but you'll never see them. They're inside the walls,
  where ghosts prefer to_ _live, coexistent with cold stone. That's your
  destiny: to wait out eternity entombed in solid rock,_ _moving through the
  barriers that set apart the spaces where the others live._
  
  _The others?_
  
  _You're one of the others right now. An ephemeral creature; a meaningless
  dream of the nucleic_ _acids, a sport in the grand game of life. Flesh and
  blood_ — _flesh that is made to feel pain; blood that_ _fills you up so that
  every least pin prick will burst you and spill you and shrink you and feed
  the_ _vampire until you shrivel and fade away and run fo