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The Seven Circles
A Synopsis From The Original Screenplay
By Richard S. Omura
(Based on his novel with the same title)
William Drake types on a laptop, a loaded gun inches away from his hands. He chronicles the fantastic experiences he has had and ponders whether he should blow his brains out. As he types, we follow his story of a billionaire atheist with an incurable disease who is cryogenically frozen and awakens 50,000 years in the future in a world where spiritual reality is a proven fact.
The narrative moves to that future, as Drake experiences events in which he becomes immersed in a dreamlike reality; such as becoming able to fly, to having the power to create almost anything such as food, housing and other material necessities, to a Fusion Ceremony where a man is transformed into a scintillating spirit being.
Being a primitive man by future standards, Drake is a jerk with many negative qualities, prone to violence and anger. But the natives of the future treasure him for those qualities, because in that age, everyone is perfect, and they cannot practice the concept of returning good for evil, a prerequisite for spiritual evolution, without people who are evil. Drake's bad nature is welcomed for that reason.
This perception by the future denizens enables Drake to undergo a series of experiences that inspire his transformations through the Seven Cosmic Circles of spiritual development. But all is not easy, as his old ways are hard to change and he often regresses to his 20th Century mindset.
Drake then falls in love with Sheila, the woman who had revived him and she gives birth to Annon, a baby girl. However, they soon discover that the anachronistic presence of both Annon and Drake has catastrophic consequences, so they are transported back to the 20th Century.
After living in the 20th Century for a time, Sheila becomes deathly ill and Annon gets killed in a traffic accident. Then miraculously, Sheila recovers and evolves to a new spiritual level; she fuses, i.e., turns into a spiritual being and departs the planet. Drake is devastated by the grief of losing both his wife and daughter.
The story ends in the present, with Drake fingering his gun, getting ready to blow his brains out. As he finishes typing his memoirs, he makes his decision. Will he kill himself? Or will his newfound spirituality give him the will to live?
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