Re: Is there a heaven?
- From: Robin Whitehead <robin.w@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:39:47 GMT
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Someone on http://www.Faith.com asked about heaven's existence and it
got me thinking:
What if there's no heaven?
If you came to the end of your life and found out that your religion
was not the truth, would you do it all over again?
I would, of course, but what do you think?
This is what I think: Heaven is purely just a concept, a thought form, a
device to help us to quantify the unknowable. The only definate thing
one can say is that it exists in an individual's conciousness only. One
may believe it actually exists as descibed in the Bible and this is
perfectly valid for the believer. However the same cannot be claimed for
others outside of this belief. The concept of a material afterlife
exists in most religions. This presents a few potential problems though.
Christianity implies that existence here and now is implicitly negative,
i.e. we are unworthy compared to the Almighty. This only helps to
perpetuate the notion of our separateness from God (or whatever you may
care to call it) and employing fear as a basis of belief arises purely
from human insecurity and is certainly not in keeping with an all-loving
entity. But at last these ideas are losing their grip on the human
conciousness.
Perhaps that is the whole function of being on this particular plane of
existence -that we are to merely perpetuate our feeling of alienation
with creation until human conciousness rises from the miasma that it
occupies at present. Personally I don't feel alienated from creation -
the universe. I am part of it, inextricably connected with it and all
that exists in it. So in a way my presence is just as valid as anything
else. Creation recognises my existence and correspondingly reacts to my
actions. Cause and effect, and I am wholly responsible for my feelings
and actions -nobody else. Contemporary research is showing that such
effects are more aptly being described by quantum theory and this also
can include spirituality on a broad base. But it is all just a part of
creation anyway and such a notion is really describing that which
religions do but with an open mindedness to concepts that are not yet
accepted by the masses. When this reaches a critical mass it will become
our reality with the chains of limited concepts and actions broken.
I see the World already progressing at an exponential rate along the
path to a higher conciousness and there are tremendous developments
happening in the areas of spirituality, metaphysics and quantum
mechanics. To answer the question though, paradoxically, there are no
absolutes in terms of beliefs(thoughtforms). They can all be said to be
valid or invalid at one level or another.
--
Robin. (:0)
Isle of Wight. UK.
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