Introduction
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In that way, I know I can experience Heaven or Hell from wherever I currently stand. The distance we imagine between our selves and our aspirations is mostly an illusion. The trip itself can be deceptively short––often it’s just the distance from our head to our heart. It’s a journey you won’t need to pack anything for––in fact, you’ll only need to unpack a few very important necessities, namely your willingness, your curiosity, and your imagination. Don’t worry about having enough faith to bring with you—we’ll find plenty of that along the way. So how do we go about finding our way to a place that isn’t one specific location––or seems to require a facility for extra-dimensional travel to get there? Let’s start by putting aside ideas about landscapes and architecture, and concentrate on its environment and atmosphere. Let’s begin by concentrating on the way Heaven will feel. When we think of Heaven, we think of a place where a sense of grace prevails, where the energy around us contributes to a seamless sensation of comfort and joy. All the elements of an easy existence––carrying a clear conscience; a sense of physical lightness; an effortless, open-hearted acceptance of everyone and everything; an instinctive impulse for empathy and fellowship; a flow of positive direction and a meaningful “calling”––all of this and more is enfolded in that imaginary atmosphere, in the atmosphere of Love (which we know is not imaginary). By all of this I don’t mean that Heaven will never be a real physical place, but that it will always be located in the eternal moment where your soul chooses to reside right now—where you choose to live in your heart. Going to Heaven isn’t exclusively the result of physically dying from this amazing yet unavoidably difficult world. Going to Heaven (now or later) is always the result of how we engage ourselves in the eternal field of Divine Consciousness.
Lessons from My Near Death Experiences
In my three excursions to “the other side,” I brought back three very important lessons that I’d like to frame our adventures to Heaven