In order to decide, we have to
have some idea what heaven is, or what is meant by heaven. What are benefits of
obligation of heaven. Unless we know, what is the point of being there?
This very question prompted me to
embark on my last (soon to be published) historical novel, Peter & Paul. Unbeknownst to most, they, Peter and Paul, had to
deal with the same subject some two thousand years ago.
Yeshûa, who later became known as
Jesus, (a meaningless translation of the inspiring Hebrew word meaning
‘deliverance through Jah’), taught that heaven is within us. The actual phrase,
I believe, was “Kingdom of God is within you”. Since God is generally reputed
to be in heaven, I find that close enough. By the way, God being omnipresent
makes consciousness omnipresent too. We are only individualization of that
single consciousness. (“I and my father are one”, “I am within you, you within
me…” et al, remember?).
For some reason various religions
obliterated all that. I suppose there is no money in a heaven that is here and
now. All religions advocate that to reach that kingdom we have to die first.
That may or may not be true, but it has NOTHING to do with the teaching of the
Bible.
Look it up.
And thus, in spite of what
priests, imams or any other assortment of padres of all faith told me, I
decided to enter my Kingdom here and now. And once you try it, you’ll find it
quite easy. After all, heaven is neither more nor less than a state of
consciousness—albeit, a glorious one! And, after all, this is what, in fact,
what we all are: individual (indivisible) units of the Omnipresent Consciousness.
Our reality depends simply on where we place our attention. The stuff we
experience with our physical senses is just a transient, ephemeral, dream. I
also play the game, but I don’t take it too seriously.
As for entering the awareness of
heaven, in my case it took about ten years of daily contemplation—just ten, or
a little more, minutes a day. It’s worth it.
PS. Re “individual units”:
individual, in Latin, means indivisible.
Thus, in a way, we are all One.
While I tend to accept some of what you are saying...the issue for me is, "then why did we have an earthly body that slowly fails us..." It sometimes seems to me that there is just too much to accept on faith...and the more one reads, it seems to get worse instead of better...Too many false prophets?
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that we continue to identify with our physical bodies. We are not our body, we are individual, indestructible units of consciousness that uses the physical body to gather the experience of becoming. Yeshûa's expression "let the dead bury the dead", exemplifies this problem. He meant, I suspect, the still dead, not the already dead. When one awakens to the true reality it becomes obvious. (I took me only some 30 years of daily contemplation). I shall be writing a lot more on the subject, and I hope I'll be convincing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment.