This won't come as a shock to those who already read my book, but I believe...
Heaven isn't some lifeless goalless future where all goals have been completed and no desire is left. It's isn't some lifeless future world so terribly and awfully perfect that there is nothing worth doing; No challenges, no stumbles, no failure-ridden paths to triumphs, followed by yet more of the same. Some awful state where one has no unfilled desire to achieve more, to climb higher, to fight and hopefully defeat another worthy tough opponent, no unfilled desire motivating one to fight another deliciously grueling fight to overcome a worthy tough challenge.
It's not that. It isn't that because that doesn't exist. That imagined future state does not and cannot exist. And it would be unimaginably terrible if anything remotely like it could and did exist. It would be a state so incredibly lifeless and unmoving that it is worse than any death one can imagine. For it is a death without rebirth. It would be a lifeless nothingness so extreme that nothing could come out of it. And that awful absurd lifelessness is what some people desperately do their best to imagine when they imagine a heaven.
Heaven is not that.
Heaven is a dreamy playground in which you get to endlessly chase goals. It's the engrossing beautiful challenge of endlessly climbing topless mountains. It's the transcendental fun in the rollercoaster of triumphs and failures, a dramatic story of equal ups and equal downs. A rollercoaster always ends at the same height it begins, with its ups and downs inherently perfectly balanced in a yin-yang way. Even if you ride the rollercoaster around and around, over and over again, infinite times, the net height is still zero. The transcendental fun of the ups and downs is not balanced as such. That transcendental fun transcends the yin-yang balance because it applies to the yin-yang itself as a whole; It applies to the holistic reality as a singular whole. That transcendental unbalanced fun of the proverbial rollercoaster is the analogue of the infinite beauty found in the eternal present, a non-thing that does exist but lacks an opposite. It is the endless journey, the infinite ever-increasing fun of the revolving of the rollercoaster. It has no opposite, and thereby transcends logic and words, since logic and literal words are bound by the binary, and cannot describe the beauty of the singular whole, of that which is so transcendental it even transcends thinghood.
That is heaven. And we are living in it now, and always have been and always will be.
To steadily know it is to have inner peace.
To wake up every day, look around at your world, and honestly say, "When I think about heaven, I imagine this," that is inner peace. That is true happiness. That is nirvana. That is heaven. It is to be in heaven and know it's heaven.
To suddenly become aware of it is what many people call spiritual awakening. Although, we don't so much awaken from the playful dramatic dream as we do become lucid within it and aware of its beautiful dreaminess and the infinite depths of the deeper reality which transcends it and makes it possible.
It's the lucidity a boxer or MMA fight has when he appreciates having a worthy opponent to fight. What is an enemy in the world of the play, or dream, or sport, or game, is a transcendentally appreciated friend in the deeper reality that transcends the game.
If you love to play a game or sport, a good true friend will play the role of opponent or enemy so that you may compete, or battle, fight your best and hardest to win as they do their best to the opposite end.
What is competition in the level of the dream, sport, or play, is cooperation at the deeper level of the deeper reality that transcends the world of the game or sport or play or dream.
A good friend will play against you and do their best to defeat you. With a worthy opponent rightfully treating you as their enemy, you aren't sure and cannot know if you will win or not. That is what makes it worth doing. That makes a worthy opponent or a worthy challenge. An easy challenge is not a worthy challenge.
An actor on stage while deeply in character may hate and battle an enemy, but in the deeper sense of the reality that transcends the world of those characters, the two real actors who play the fictional characters are partners working together to compete with each other. And sometimes it's one actor using camera tricks to play both roles, much like Austin Powers and Dr. Evil.
It's the same pattern as falling asleep at night, dreaming a dream, and watching two people in the dream have a conversation, a disagreement, perhaps even an argument. Perhaps, you don't just watch but join in. You argue with them too, and perhaps do so lucidly. But perhaps they make good points, perhaps they change your mind about something. Or perhaps you just have fun arguing with them, with yourselves really. In the deeper realer reality, we are not three people having an argument but one big transcendental brain having a dream. It is one playing as many. You will not find the singular brain in the dream where you find the many different people with many different thoughts having an argument. You can look to the left or right, or look up or down, but you will never see it with your dream eyes from your dream body. And yet you can become lucid and easily see that the singular unified dreamer dreaming the dream is undeniably much realer than anything in the dream. It's even realer than whatever ever-changing thing you see when looking into a mirror in the dream at any given moment.
We are one playing as many in the playground of heaven.
What I will say now is true whether we speak of literal human opponents in some game, sport, or literal war, or other inhuman personified challenges and obstacles that even I would encourage you to earnestly fight your hardest and best to overcome and defeat or even utterly destroy:
Inner peace is to realize that even your worst enemies are merely your beloved friends--you yourself in fact---in playful dreamy disguise.
The heavenliness of the heaven in which we live is revealed when we become lucid of the deeper unifying reality that transcends it and makes it possible, in which we are not humans but spirits, and in which we are not many but one.
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