Do We Live in Heaven or Hell?

Heaven:

No different than abnormally constant sadness, our bodies are not designed for eternal happiness. Our emotions, like sadness and happiness, are made to put us in a constant up and down as we experience life. With every emotion having its purpose, they were all constructed through years of evolution and natural selection. These emotions allow our biological needs to appear as desires and our biological burdens to be seen as disasters. Therefore, endless happiness would be as unnatural and possibly as detrimental as never-ending sadness.

It is this understanding of mine that has led to my desire to not find everlasting happiness, but instead an everlasting purpose. Because if there is one thing I learned from my mental health advocacy class it is that purpose is the biggest driver to helping people. Whether we discussed chronic anxiety, chronic depression, or suicidal behavior, it was all the same, the number one thing that helped these people heal and live their lives again was finding purpose.

Purpose allows one to feel content no matter their current emotion. And it is this content feeling that can last throughout your whole life. Having a purpose, and being content with one’s life, can last through any emotion and make the bad barrable and the good better.

So, do we live in Heaven… maybe? I don’t know about you, but I see a lot of possible purpose in this world. Whether you look at the dozen different ways the world will end in twenty years, the family you start building whenever you desire, or the possibility of becoming a millionaire, it seems everywhere has a purpose. Some with the ability to choose from more or less options of life, but it would appear no matter who you are, you can find a purpose to your life and spend the whole time filling it.

Although not enteral happiness, since there is a ton of pain and misery in this world, we do have the opportunity of a never-ending feeling of content with one’s life. Therefore, possibly being the best that the human brain can ask for, we very well may be living in some form of Heaven and not even know it.

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Or is this Hell?

We will live in a dangerous, depressing world. Housing twenty-seven million contemporary slaves, over eight hundred million people starving, and a line of production that can only last so much longer, it would appear this Earth we live on is a crumbling Hell.

And this Hell always gets worse. With a never-ending cycle of the few conquering the many, we have dozens of systems in place throughout the world which keep real change from ever happening. Whether it be racism, our hierarchy within education, incarceration, lack of social mobility, economic inequality, it would seem no matter what you set out your life to do, things only change, not get better.

The worst part of it all is that even if you dig for the deeper meaning of life, you will come up short. How do I know? Well, I don’t. There totally could be some deeper meaning that someone has discovered which I am just not enlightened enough to know about yet. But until told otherwise I will stick to the cold hard facts: nothing is natural, and everything will end eventually.

The end will eventually come, and not just for yourself, but for everyone else as well. Therefore, whether you’re George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., or Albert Einstein, it’s all the same, eventually, everything will be forgotten and lost forever. There is simply no way for you, or me or anyone else to do enough to where they will last any more than a few thousand years.

So, if you want to find your purpose, go ahead, but the odds of it actually amounting to anything is zero… so then is it Hell?

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There is a third option. One that is a bit unconventional. One that some may say is illogical. And one that you may not believe is possible. It’s okay, I didn’t believe it at first either.

The third option is that everything is perfect. And I quite literally mean everything. Just take a second to recognize what you are looking at right now. Get out of your mind and see. See the words on the screen not as a sentence but instead black lines that bend and swirl in order to convey a message. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?

Look up from that screen. Look at the area, the space, that surrounds you. Notice its colors, its shapes, and labels. Yes, the labels are an interesting one. It’s hard to see past the “objects” you label as everything. It’s hard to see it for what it is, not what you expect it to be.

But that thing, the real thing, that is the perfectness. Because once you see everything for what it is, you will realize it is all the same. It is all one. And simultaneously as you see this everything as one, you will see that it is all equally connected. All equally working to make the same thing that it all is.

And here’s the most fun part. Looking at this one reality, you will eventually notice that you are not exempt. You are a part of the one that the creator has created. Did you know you birthed yourself? It’s odd to think about.

You will notice that you are all one. And just as the “objects” changed to one, so will you. You shall vanish. In your place will sit a point. A point of consciousness creating all that is. That is when you will see for the first time. See the beauty of your invention. See the truth behind the cloak that the ego created by the demand for survival priority.

So what is this third option? This option is to recognize that Heaven and Hell are all your own inventions. That they are a part of reality as much as anything else. Nothing less, and nothing more. This third option recognizes that everything that will ever be is right in front of you right now. And now, and now, and now. Independently structured to let you write your story and share it with all who care to hear.

This third option is freedom. This third option is peace. This third option is perfectness. Because there is nothing to compare. There is nothing to fear. And there is nothing ever wrong. It is all you, making more of you. And that my friend is a Heaven no biblical story can replicate. That, this, is a nirvana you can last infinitely within if you just notice it.