What heaven means to me – Part 1
Since our egos so dominate our earthly existence, it is hard to imagine a place where such attitudes have no influence. For most of us, this life is our only frame of reference. So we imagine that the afterlife somehow mirrors not only the physical characteristics of this life, but the social and psychological elements as well. So most popular ideas of Heaven are simply fanciful fantasies of a better Earth.
There are, of course, physical differences between the two realms.
On the Plains everything is connected, while on Earth, everything is separated by the attitude of increments. We have words to blame for this. Our languages evolved in a manner that labels and separates everything. We give everything a name and measure the spaces between them. The very nature of our language, even more so than my inability to manipulate it, is the reason Heaven is so difficult to capture on paper. Words are inadequate to capture the differences, because words were never designed for an understanding of Heaven, or God, only of Earth as we sense it. Giving God the various names that our various tribes have concocted isolates Him and separates Him in an earthy sense, which confuses and blocks an understanding of His universally unifying force. It’s a problem of syntax, no matter the language, because they all make definite distinctions between all forms of matter, and this idea of separation naturally influences their ideas of the metaphysical.
Because we also think in words, the only way to achieve a tangible knowledge of what Heaven is really like is to expunge all conditioned thought patterns in a deep state of meditation. Ultimate spiritual enlightenment can not come through the spoken or written word. This is why, “Those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know.”
The Plains exist as an energy field that moves and waves and surges, and all spirits draw from and add to the field. This energy is the emotions of love. Because God is perfect love, no evil can exist in his chamber, on the Plains, or anywhere else in this other dimension. There is no ego there and, consequently, no dishonesty and no real outlet for the evils of fear and doubt. Under these idyllic conditions, true spiritual growth through the experience of good and evil is impossible, so the physical universe was created as a place were evil not only exists, but dominates in the fearful egos of mankind. So the Earth was created as a battleground for rapid spiritual growth, and we
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