From my last blog I like the idea that heaven and even God evolves, as we do here on earth.We could play the same game as last week and this week talk about fashion. I am willing to bet that the fabrics we use today are by far more comfortable to wear that the stuff they had 2000 years ago, even the royals had no briefs or boxer shorts but had to expose their private parts to the coarse fabric.
But I promised to write about heaven in a more personal way.
If you have read one of the Holy books you know that God used dreams to address ITS spokespersons. At least about Muhammad is said that Allah (God) lifted him up. Even Jesus in the end ascended. That means - to say the least - Heaven must be out there somewhere.
It is a soothing idea!
Let me ask you a question: Do you dream? Science found out, that everybody is dreaming! So the problem is not the dreaming as such, but the recalling of a dream.
Let me ask you another question: Did you ever dream “crazy stuff" like flying, walking through walls or other things we out here in the “real” world would consider strange or impossible?
Don't think you are crazy if you do or did!
For quite some time I walked through walls and regularly in the middle of the wall or at the other side I woke up because my mind from the “real” world (maybe it was the censor) interfered and said “not possible!”.
You know there are vivid dreams, dreams when we are aware, that we are dreaming. But before you become a vivid dreamer you might have a dream which was so real so intensely real that even the reality outside here the “real” world seems vague.
Chances are that no priest, teacher or even scientist gave you an answer that really satisfied you.
Let me tell you a little story:
Some years back I was sick. I had an upset stomach and it hurt badly. To make things worse it was summer and terribly hot. For hours I lay on my bed - non stop suffering. Trying to watch TV or read to take my awareness away from the pain were in vain. I was wondering why the pain did not lessen. Then I heard my neighbor and his beautiful wife start a fight. It was a heated argument that lasted for quite some time, but like all quarrels ended. And with the end of the quarrel my attention slipped back into my body. Actually I had not realized that I was out of my body. I was listening so intensely to the quarrel, that I was not aware of myself. But this happen to you as well, I am sure, when you watch a film or when you forget to eat your meal! Where are you, when you forget “yourself”? Or to go back to dreams:
Who is the one running around in the dream world, or who is the one laying in bed?
Do you have an answer?
I have!
But it is not scientifically proven, or even provable.
I call it a working hypothesis. Meaning I use it as an assumption until I can proof it wrong!
For me I - or any dreamer with this intense experience - visits a heaven of God!
If I have such a “dream” it changes me! This is what I expect from such an encounter.
Let me summarize it in a few different words:
If something is more intense than the real live and if it changes me in my daily life even, I am not shy to admit that I had a divine encounter, at least not as long as as it makes me a better being and not as long as no one proves me wrong or insane!
Remember the bible says that the way to heaven is a small and a winded road. So do not expect to be close to heaven as long as you are with crowds on a smooth paved highway.
Watch out for a sign like “detour” or even a path almost unrecognizable and follow your intuition.
And if your family and friends consider you strange and if your pastor has no words for your experiences maybe you already are on a "detour" from the paved highway to heaven.
