This is http://www.essayz.com/a9404262.htm         
Previous-Essay      <== This-Essay ==>     Following-Essay
Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words.
{Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.}
==========================================================
  %DESCRIBE HEAVEN HELL GOD DEVIL RELATIONS OBJECTS+940426
   %GATES PEARLS GOLD STREETS MANSIONS ROOMS ANGELS 940426

    It seems strange that so often descriptions of  heaven
and  hell focus upon images of objects and upon  objective
relationships; rather than upon the qualities of reflexive
relationships among those  who are present. Is it accurate
and honest to suggest that  the essence of the differences
between heaven and  hell  are differences in the  physical
environments rather than the differences in  the qualities
of   the   reflexive  relationships  among those  who  are
present?

    It  seems  there is a suggestion that in  heaven   all
conceivable external fixes are readily available, while in
hell none of the desired external fixes are available. Are
the images of heaven and  hell  projections of the visions
of addicts and their codependent supporters?  What are the
preoccupations  of those  who envision and try to describe
the natures of heaven and hell?

    If God is Love and Truth and the Way of life, wouldn't
it be reasonable to hear about the manifestations of Love,
Truth, and the Way on the part of all  of those present in
heaven?   Why is so little  said about  those who were our
brothers  and  sisters  on  earth  before being  true   to
themselves and each other  in  heaven.    Why is so little
said about the reflexive natures of the guilt,  shame, low
self esteem, frustrations,  anger, and unfulfilled desires
of  those  in  hell?    Why is  the  focus  upon  physical
suffering  rather  than  upon  reflexive  alienation  from
others  who  are physically present, but not in dialogue?

    It may be useful to ask in what ways we can reasonably
expect hell to be different from the experiences of people
who are trapped in  personal  and systemic  organizational
collusive  games of  mutual  self deception of addicts and
their supportive codependents.

    It  may  also be useful to ask in  what  ways  we  can
reasonably   expect  heaven  to  be  different  from   the
experiences of people who are liberated within communities
of integrity with  people  of  integrity  who are free and
feel  free  to  be safely  vulnerable  in  being  true  to
themselves  and  to each other about  their  own  personal
experiences,  desires, fears, hopes, aspirations, visions,
fantasies, opinions, beliefs, convictions and doubts?

    Is  there  any  reason to  believe  that  "hell"   and
"heaven"  are terms which point to realities  which  exist
only  in  the future,  but not in the eternal now  of  the
present, or in past?

Why  do we play collusive games of mutual self   deception
about  the  natures  of heaven and hell;   and  refuse  to
recognize how present they have been, are now, and may be.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
==========================================================