Saturday, December 16, 2017

Life, Heaven or Hell?

Ok.  Face your fears and come with me on a trip through my spiritual journeys and the many, many authors that lead me here:

What if we are all actually in Hell?  Hell, as I wisely heard it defined as simply “without God.”  Couldn't Hell easily manifest as a lake a fire or crowd of shadowed torturers?  Pick your nightmare.  It doesn’t matter.  Try it.  Truly stop a moment and truly imagine all of us currently in this life caught in a Matrix sustained by our own imperfect minds busily manifesting our own realities and only glimpsing the occasional momentary escape in love or laughter, ecstasy, meditation, prayer.  

Every person we meet - every single person - either going about their lives as though God doesn’t exist or Gods are irrelevant or arguing over who’s flawed idea of God is best.  I have multiple issues with the God or gods I’ve been introduced to, so what if I’m a god?  As a mere thought experiment this works.  You saw “What Dreams May Come” right?  Millions of people here writhing around in our own bubbles with this god or that, this reality or the next, Heaven or maybe even a kind of eternal us just outside our bubbles helling, healing, teaching, judging, whatever whispering all around us.

Every “righteous” person bearing signs of our (not their) doom is actually breaking their own rules and standing next to us shoulder to shoulder in Hell - a true fellow sinner in a way Abraham, Mohammed, and Jesus explained but that I never really internalized before.  Nobody above or below, and yet everyone is or may be.  Ever see a person glow? (James Redfield, Celestine Prophesy) Other people could be demons, or angels, us, or our messages.

Stay here a second.  What if there truly is a VERY narrow path we walk to Heaven?  Or through Nirvana?  We walk it with every choice we make as we navigate through this Multiverse.  Every sin, every judgement trips us up.

- Every single thought (Eckhart Tolle) -

- every definition (Robert M. Pirsig) -

- every label - (Marth Nussbaum)

each, can actually steer us wrongly.

What if we have never even really “lived?”  All this is actually a dream (Bishop Berkeley) or we died and it is a dream now at least as many near-death-experiencers have described?  And the lower you are in the Inferno (the smarter, sweeter, most intellectually and emotionally invested you are) the harder it is to break through the illusion.  Doesn’t all that truly fit?  Couldn't it? 

I have felt like I am in Hell since the moment I seriously considered this thought.  And I've never been happier.

Doesn’t it also have the effect of casting a ethereal light on even the most totally mundane?  Doesn’t it truly make you want to embrace your enemies knowing they’re simply manifestations of either the real you or God or someone who loves you trying to wake you from your own nightmare?

Doesn’t it compel you to speak to your loves your each and every truth right away?  Doesn’t it wake you up to listen and talk almost directly to this universe/multiverse/self/god//energy/love?  - trusting your actual life (as much as you can get your regular self - your ego - out of the way) not simply waiting for synchronicity but knowing it will answer you right away if not directly than through a kind of symbolism only you can decipher?  

It’s speaking, however, in the language of our lives when we stay on the path.  Nothing here is new, and yet for me everything is.  Because as much as it’s like from here I can feel Hell - I can also see Heaven.  Can you?

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