Is heaven like this?
2006-11-14 07:01:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe it is like going through life being chained in such a way that you could only seeing your shadow, only knowing your shadow as the reality of who you are. Then being unchained and finally seeing the body that made the shadow. That is what it will be like to transcend to a place we can be aware of a clearer existance of ourselves rather than in the time and space we are now chained. I believe it to be heaven. I believe time to be a created by God. I also believe that when Jesus said he was going to prepare a place for us he was also speaking of a "time and space"... seperate from the one we now reside. NO matter were or when you die.. I believe it possible to all get there at the same time.... why not... it doesn't go against anything biblical that I can find. Not to say it is true.. just possible.
2006-11-14 07:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by CWC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back to a true answer... I hate it when ignoramuses like the previous answerers avoid the question to gain 2 measley points... Anyways, there are theories about transcending through time (of course, we transcend through space every waking moment of our lives, probably just less than you are imagining). However, transcending through time may be just as easy. There's a book (and subsequent theory) called "Slaughterhouse Five", where the main character finds himself "unstuck" in time and space. He travels to the least likely of spots on Earth and in the entire universe because he simply can (but he can't control it). The theory that springs from this novella is that he was God. A "God"-like being would be able to transcend to anywhere/anytime it pleases, thus creating the illusion of time for those who cannot. However, when we base our lives on a God, we get stuck in this time period.
Transcendentalism (like the common Buddhist theory you speak of) is closely related to self-actualization, death, life, and that perfect moment where everything comes together. One who believes enough in heaven will get there simply because this is what they want to believe. I once felt a sense of wholeness, but only for a second. It was as if I was one with the universe, and that not only did I know everything, I understood everything as well.
Try it sometime. You can do it the hard, slow way by meditating day-in, day-out and reaching the Karmatic transcendence... Or you could do it my way (the easy way) and take a lot of drugs and stare into the mirror. Either way, good luck, and godspeed.
2006-11-14 15:09:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I can imagine transcending time and space. Making a movie about it, actually. It's just plain wacky. *lol*
I imagine Heaven is SOMETING like it, but anyone so priviledged to actually spend eternity with God would probably not want to be anywhere but with Him.
2006-11-14 15:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Not even close.
This is the basis of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. He argued that human reason must operate within the concepts of time and space and thus he showed that everything presented to that reason must exist within time and space. That is to say that there may well be realms beyond time and space but we are not up to the job of even thinking about them!
One famous part (and an almost readable part - this guy did not write lucid flowing prose!) takes statments about things beyond time and space and uses reason to firstly prove them and then to disprove them. The message is - you can't intellectualise outside time and space: give up!
(Mind you modern day physicists seem to be able to work with some very wierd ideas of time and space. I am becoming convince that they cheat and take huge amounts of drugs)
2006-11-14 15:16:35 · answer #4 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can't imagine it - I am a finite being - time and space are a limitless creation of God. I don't know if heaven will be like that. I do know that heaven will be perfect.
2006-11-14 15:07:12 · answer #5 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all have the ability to do this. Time and space is only a conception. It doesn't really exist except in our minds!
"There is no beginning, there is no end ..."
2006-11-14 15:06:43 · answer #6 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I meditate every morning and transcend all.
No. Not much
2006-11-14 15:05:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anne A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you mean like thinking of a place and being there instantaniously ?
i can imagine that because in my opinion spirit already do this xx
2006-11-14 15:04:17 · answer #8 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i can't imagine what it's like but i would sure love to experience it!
2006-11-14 15:03:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want to find out what this is like.
2006-11-14 15:07:53 · answer #10 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋