It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.

Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.

Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

Everything that can be and everything that cannot be exists somewhere.

I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must've been better!