Heaven With a Little Help From Me Friends

Copyright 2016 Don Ray 

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Joe Cocker, dead?!  That is of course preposterous.  Surely it is time to dispel this cruel illusion of death.

Joe Cocker is dead?  How ludicrous.  How can anyone watch that performance at Woodstock and for an instant think the vitality of that individual consciousness no longer exists?  Ludicrous I say.

But wait!  Joe Cocker in the same Heaven as my Southern Baptist mother?!  Now there’s a logical incongruity! 

In the lessons learned from this temporal world have I learned anything to resolve this incongruity? Like maybe our differences are not as big as they appear, that it is just damage and fear and scars, and self-absorbed-spiritual-childishness, that keep us from seeing that we are more or less seeking the same thing.

In this temporal place of our birth we are destined for clash and conflict, because otherwise we would not be born as individuals.

We are each imprisoned, each in our windowless cell of individual, physical consciousness, each beating on the walls and bars, each listening to the muffled sounds around us, trying to learn, trying to connect, hoping for some response, wishing for touch. 

It’s a fleeting passage, this doomed temporal life passing between Scylla and Charybdis.  During this brief sojourn, for myself  I would hope to do better to see the common and the shared in the people around me, would hope to do a better job of seeing past the scars and fear and damage that hide each of our true selves, in order to see the shared dreams and hopes. 

How can all these disparate souls be reunited in peace and joy instead of the clash and conflict that characterize our relationships in this life?.....all these people who so bickered and battered and betrayed each other during our worldly lives?

Will we really change, really be zapped into some different way of being?....and if so, will the resulting entities even still be us?

Or will we find in Heaven that in fact the real us, the pure us, the essence of the children of God, that quanta of universal Consciousness, was present all along, and it was only the pain and fear and blindness of this temporal birth into Eternity that deceived us into thinking we had to employ the costumes and masks and shields and barriers and walls and pikes and halberds to isolate ourselves from each other?

Do we have to change at all to enter Heaven?  Or must we simply be liberated from the pain and fear and blindness, allowing each child of God to emerge into the Light? 

Joe Cocker is dead?  How ludicrous.  Joe Cocker may be talking with my Southern Baptist mother right now. 

Copyright 2016 Don Ray 

DrDonRay@HotMail.com