Heaven on Earth

"Thy Will be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven"*

Nehwey tzevyanach aykana d'bwashmaya aph b'arha

Your One desire then acts with ours,

as in light, so in all forms.

Let all wills move together in your vortex,

as stars and planets swirl through the sky.

Help us love beyond our ideals

and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.

As we find your love in ours,

let heaven and nature form a new creation.

Unite the crowd within in a vision

of passionate purpose: light mates with form.

Create in me a divine cooperation -

from many selves, one voice, one action.

Let your heart's fervent desire unite

heaven and earth through our harmony.

Your One desire then acts with ours,

as in all light, so in all forms.*

There's a beautiful scene in The Celestine Prophesy, in both the book and movie, in which Will is able to transcend the world, the third dimension.  He is able to appear and disappear, yet remain intact and whole. 

We would call that a miracle. It offers us a vision of what our ascension, our ability to transcend the lower, baser, heavier 3D in which we currently live and consider reality, might look like.  Our heavy 3-D world  is not ultimate reality.  It is only one reality and a rather heavy one with an oppressive spiritual atmosphere - one in which the ego prevails, causing separation, war and conflict, oppression and control, hatred and death, strife, jealousy, competition and violence. 

In this world we only barely get glimpses of real love.  Certainly within our 3-D world there are varying levels of density and luminosity, from the basest, darkest of an oppressive regime which tortures children and the light and love of those who selflessly give their lives to care for others. But, even among the most loving, few actually achieve the ascended state exemplified by Will's high love vibration that supercharges his physical body to the point that he vibrates out of the 3-D, into the fourth and fifth dimensions.

That sounds a bit "out there," you might say, but consider the gospel report of the Upper Room appearance of Jesus?  and the empty tomb and the conversation between Mary Magdalene and the gardener, who she soon realizes is Jesus, her rabboni? What about Jesus' appearance on the Sea of Galilee during a storm, on which he walked?  And, to add to this are many accounts in other less documented "gospels" where Jesus would appear and disappear.  So, there is a precedent for this ability to transcend this 3-D reality, moving in and out of it.

Later in the gospels, Jesus tells us we too can do this and commissions us to do this. Mystics such as Padre Pio and many others have been able to do this.  So, it's not fiction.  It's real.  These mystics also live their lives in bliss. If Christianity could focus on the spiritual maturity and ascension Jesus taught us, the entire human race would have a break through in creating peace, healing the sick and healing the Earth on every level. 

Throughout the ages, we've blindly held the notion that when we die we will go to heaven or hell.  We think if we follow the rules and become perfect little puppets of the religious control masters, we will be rewarded with a pleasant afterlife in paradise. And, if we don't?  There's that other place. Maybe that "carrot" is what kept us all down, enslaved to living outside our own centers, doing what we we're told and living inauthentically. 

The inner pain of living enslaved to any outside ideology, government, religion or dictatorial person, is the greatest abuse, one that would be so unbearable that it would be natural for anyone (individually or collectively) to look forward to a beautiful afterlife, a heavenly paradise and temporally seek refuge in anything that would dim that inner pain. 

The perpetuation of such an oppressive, dark and spiritually dead system has kept us all stuck like glue in this 3-D existence.  We've also been brainwashed so well not to believe that there is anything else, other than all this.

This ancient closed system treats us and all of life as lifeless, inanimate objects, depriving us of our personal access to the divine and our own growth and experience as the powerful, magnificent beautiful, beings we were created to be.  It seems, by the high ratio of alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, violence everywhere, that both escapism is at an all time high and the frustration and anger with being trapped is at an all time high.  We know collectively that that old controlling system, that has permeated every other system in the world, has to go.  Time's up on that old trap.  Escapism isn't working anymore and the long repressed anger is exploding everywhere. 

The world is sick and tired of being enslaved and in that frustration is facing an enormous adversity, a never before seen problem and challenge. Can we look at it differently?  Rather than look out on the world stage and cry out in despair at what is happening, even if we can understand intellectually why it's happening, can we do something else?  Can we step onto the true path, to the truth of who we are individually and collectively?

It's not too late.  I think we can.  We can revisit some of the ancient wisdom and learn how to transcend these denser dimensions and ascend into the heightened, powerful, loving and creative beings we were meant to become.  We need to embrace this challenge, rather than try to rid ourselves of it.

Ancient Chinese wisdom calls problems/challenges "opportunities."  Oh, sure, you say when your house in going into foreclosure or your child is in the hospital or your boyfriend or husband is in the military in Afghanistan.  Yes.  It is to you that this message is most appropriate and most needed.  It is a gift that you are being challenged because without it your comfort level would keep you stuck in a place of complacency, acceptance of a mediocrity of living that - yes, is more comfortable - but terribly dim,  illusionary and unreal.

It is possible to experience heaven on earth.  It is possible to evolve spiritually into who you were always meant to be.  It is possible to convert every cell in your body into light cells, physical and metaphysical, simultaneously.  It is possible to live according to your own will, by your own choosing, your own self determination.  You have to know that you were always meant to be autonomous, to live without fear, and to trust your own innate instinct to love and live in love and be loved.  It is our natural a priori condition.  We can do it. And, when we choose to do it, little by little, we can become and experience our own ascended divinity while still in our bodies. 

And, maybe, that's heaven on earth.

* Prayers of the Cosmos, Neil Douglas-Klotz, p. 22 (Harper Collins, 1990)