Heaven and hell

We speak often of creating heaven on earth by December 21, 2012 on this website. Before we go any further, we should describe what heaven is.  For us, heaven is living in the love, light, vibration, and spirit in the moment.  Throughout this website, we speak of raising our consciousness to achieve this heavenly experience.  What does that mean? 

To help us understand the concept of raising our consciousness, let’s start with the simple concepts of self-conscious thoughts & ideas.

I’m not good enough.  I’m not skinny enough.  I’m not clever enough.  I’m not lovable.  They’re out to get me.  No one likes me.  They talk about me behind my back.  They hate me.  I hate them.

Do any of these ring a bell?  These are the obsessive thoughts that we cling to, that create the darkness in our lives.   These are the thoughts that create our living hell.   These are the self-inflicting thoughts that close off the pearly gates and our ability to experience heaven.

Original Sin

If we look at the story of Adam and Eve, it was a change in consciousness that changed the Garden of Eden from heaven to a living hell.   In Genesis, Adam and Eve ran around naked and experienced heaven until they ate an apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and as a result became self-conscious of being naked.  Perhaps being self-conscious was our original sin; perhaps this story is a metaphor for the evolution of our species to being self-aware and, as a result, self-critical. Eating that apple is a metaphor for the moment humanity evolved to the point of self-actualization, creating a living hell where once only heaven existed.

Seven Deadly Sins

When we think of hell, we tend to think of “sin”.  The word “sin” is actually an archery term for “off the mark”.  “Sin” means our thinking is off the mark.   And if we look at the “seven deadly sins” of the Christian faith, they aren’t actually actions but are emotional prisms through which we choose to view the world and live our lives.   

Wrath – anger or rage

Greed – excessive thoughts of or desires for wealth

Sloth – laziness or indifference

Pride – a desire to be more important than others

Lust – excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature

Envy – desires for other’s belongings

Gluttony – excessive thoughts or desires for food.

If we choose to observe the world through angry, lustful, or prideful eyes, we won’t see the light of heaven.  If we choose to see the world through greed or envy, we won’t experience the love of heaven.  And if we choose a life laziness and gluttony, we won’t feel the spirit of heaven.  For this website, earth is already heaven – but to experience it, we, the human race, must evolve our emotional prism from fear-based emotions and “sin” to love-based emotions.     

Raising our consciousness

Ultimately, the only way to raise your consciousness and is first, love yourself (with compassion, not arrogance)  and second, love others.  The second becomes much easier once we’ve mastered the first. No matter what the perceived worldly human experience appears to be through your self-critical ego-mind, if you can quiet the-self conscious critics and see your experiences  through the prism of love, your reality will be love.  You’ll experience heaven on earth.  Although this website looks at spirituality through everything from neurology to quantum mechanics, raising consciousness and experiencing heaven is not rocket science.  It’s just learning how to turn your fear-based emotions into love.

Creating heaven on earth

Creating heaven on earth is our planetary goal.  Obviously, that’s more difficult  than a single person experiencing the light, love, and vibration of heaven at a single moment.   But if we can get enough individuals to experience heaven on earth through a prism of love, and share this experience through social networks, this will ripple out.  It ripples through simple cause and effect, through mirroring neurons, through changing our noosphere. And through enough rippling changes to love-based thoughts, the human race can reach critical mass and experience a quantum leap in evolution to experience heaven on earth as a species. 

We’re already been seeing the power of online social networks to change consciousness, with twitter campaigns and Facebook groups stirring up genuine political movement, changes in policies, and shared awareness.  We believe it can be used the same way to change our planetary consciousness toward spiritual evolution – by creating a belief that love on a planetary scale is possible, even inevitable.

Evolutionary Mapquest

The evolutionary mapquest of the human race might be as simple as going from an evolving body to an evolving mind to an evolving spirit.  From a one-cell amoeba, to survival of the fittest & king of the jungle, to the Age of Reason, to the Information Age, to the Age of Love, Light, and Spirit – our new age of enlightenment.    And we believe we can accomplish this, by December 21st, 2012.

Albert Einstein - quotes of relativity

Throughout this blog, we discuss the evolution of the human race to create heaven on earth by December 21, 2012. Now if one of the greatest minds in the history of the human race, Albert Einstein, was alive today, what would be his thoughts on such an ambition? Perhaps we can look at some of his famous quotes to see how they coincide with our future world vision.

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“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

In our posts, we try to explain the science behind the light, love, and spirit that we experience at moments during our human existence – for instance, our August 16 post on The Soul’s Electric Light and the understanding of electromagnetism. So religion, in terms of its spirituality and not its dogma, can be explained scientifically, which would give us substance to our faith. Having blind faith sounds like a strength, but having unwavering blind faith can be dangerous if it leads you in the wrong direction.

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge."

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”

Our May 17 post, The meek will inherit the earth, emphasized the need to balance the “yin & yang” on the planet by drawing on more feminine energies, such as creativity, imagination, and intuition. As Einstein understood, we need more than just rational, problem-solving thought. Our July 12 post, God Gave you a Brain – So don’t use it, looked at the importance of being at the level of Alpha brain waves for creativity, peak performances, and super learning, as opposed to the higher-frequency Beta brain waves, used for most thinking and problem solving. More brain waves is not always better.

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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding”

Our April 19 post, For want of a nail, says that the cycle of fear and violence must end: with the human race’s current capability to kill one another, we cannot blindly, patriotically, and righteously fight another world war. We actually quoted Einstein in this post, on how we must change our thinking to solve our world problems. We need to move from fear-based thinking to love-based thinking.

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand apt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Einstein understood that emotions like anger, hatred, and rage cannot drive our thinking if we want the human race to survive. We looked at the impact of emotions on our thinking in our September 20 post, Emotional Decisions, and the need to move to the emotions that raise our spirits – and just maybe, pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe.  Image from Deviant Art.

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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persist one”

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

In these quotes, Einstein speaks about the illusion of reality and delusion of consciousness. We believe that this addresses the illusion that the human race is separated by time and space. In our March 15 post, What we know about the world can change, we write about how quantum physics is proving we are all connected and the need to start acting on that understanding.

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“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds”

This website consistently communicates the need for the human race to evolve from body to mind, and eventually to spirit. Our March 1 post, A New Age of Enlightenment, talks about moving from “Dare to Know” to “Dare to Be”. Einstein understood that knowledge on its own was meaningless and that tapping into spirit was the way to understand the universe.

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By comparing our posts and our website to the quotes of Albert Einstein, we are by no means putting ourselves in the same region of brilliance. And to some extent, we do interpret what he says to fit our posts. But that said, we do believe that both our website and Albert Einstein’s words see the same changes that the human race needs. We need a paradigm shift in the way we think and interact as human beings. We need to move away from the illusion of separation and come to terms with the fact that we are all connected. We aim to provide the vision for these changes, both intellectually and spiritually.