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[...] Man did not live in fear, as is now supposed, nor in some idealized natural heaven. [...]

the heavens looking back at me …

[...] As Ruburt said earlier, I am not telling you you can have a heaven upon earth. For one thing, there is no such thing as heaven, and for another, if there were you would be bored. [...]

[...] Disease states, so-called, are as necessary to physical life as normal health is, so we are not speaking of a nirvana on earth — but we are saying that it is possible for each reader of this book to quicken his or her private perceptions, and to extend and expand the quality of ordinary consciousness enough so that by contrast to current experience, life could almost be thought of as “heaven on earth.”

[...] Now I am telling you that your own dreams and thoughts and mental actions appear to the inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within your own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens.

3. In Buddhism, nirvana — a state of heavenly perfection — is achieved by the extinction of individual life and the soul’s absorption into the supreme spirit.

[...] He projected himself out into nature, into the heavens, and imagined there were great personified forms that later turned into the gods of Olympus, for example. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is no doubt that the church cast the soul in a position of stress, caught as it was between its heavenly source and original sin — but there was a sense of psychological mobility involved, one that saw continued existence after death.

[...] An out-of-body experience into another level of reality becomes a visit to heaven, for example; or the heretofore-unrecognized voice of your own greater identity becomes the voice of God, or a spaceman or prophet.

[...] Believing in the stereotyped idea of heaven can cause no harm, but a delay in facing up to new responsibilities. [...]

[...] (Humorously:) Mending mouths will be his pearly gates to heaven. [...]

[...] Christianity saw it as heaven, inhabited by God the Father, His angels, the saints, and [the] deceased faithful.

It often seems, when such ideas as these are presented, that the ideal results in your terms would be perfection — “heaven on earth” — a state in which everyone would be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

[...] The people believed that those ancestors still existed in the Christian heaven—or, earlier, in the Roman equivalent and they also believed that such a dimension awaited them to give them a further extension of existence after their own deaths. [...]

The concept of nirvana (see the 637th session in Chapter Nine) and the idea of heaven are two versions of the same picture, the former being one in which individuality is lost in the bliss of undifferentiated consciousness, and the latter one in which still-conscious individuals perform mindless adoration. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In a manner of speaking, when you probe the heavens with your instruments you are doing the same thing. [...]

[...] Dreams of Heaven and Hell alike fall into the same category, in those terms, as hallucinations.

[...] There are falling stars everywhere tumbling through the heavens, for example, though you only see some of these in the night sky. [...]

[...] The hoped-for spiritual heaven on earth—in those terms (underlined) – is unattainable, of course.

[...] So those who felt that religion had failed them looked anew to science, which promised — promised to — provide the closest approximation to heaven on earth: mass production of goods, two cars in every garage, potions for every ailment, solutions for every problem. [...]