007 - Whats Heaven look like in regular life?

Hey, you.

Since this is article 7, and seven represents completion and divinity, it makes sense to illuminate a huge part of what the concept of Heaven behaves like in the psyche.

In this past week, in conversation with Massara, it’s occurred to me that the concept of Kosmos is the spiritual opposite of Entropy, as described in physics.

Entropy in this context is defined as “lack of order or predictability” and “a gradual decline into disorder.” That’s one of the primary laws that rule the physical world. Decay, essentially. Empty space doesn’t decay, so a progression into chaos is something inherent to the manifest plane, i.e. things that exist - meaning the baseline is…actually order.

A simple imagery for that would be if you’re inside your house, and there’s a storm outside. Decay is - in plain terms, a state of getting worse. So in this analogy, every thing on the physical plane is inside the house and heading outside into the storm to become worse over time. Things wouldn’t get worse if they were in the house and didn’t GO outside, and they also couldn’t get worse outside if they already started outside and stayed there.

I’ve realized that when it comes to the spiritual, though, what we consider common sense is often quite backwards. It seems like the baseline is the opposite - a state of Chaos, like being out in the storm - and Kosmos is going from the storm into the house. Always gradually improving, and becoming better. Going from dark to light, from lack to abundance.

A recent experience that illustrated this for me, is that I’ve got two close friends whos attachment styles are both considered disorganized, but one is clearly more toward the anxious side, and another that leans more toward the avoidant side (meaning one tends not to trust himself, and the other, not to trust others) - while mine is considered Secure, leaning toward only not trusting others when I get stressed, and consequently avoiding a number of people at times.

But what I’ve noticed about being that influence in these two friends’ lives, is that I’ve rubbed off on both of them, and that’s been without a so-called “equal and opposite reaction”. This also isn’t the first time I’ve picked up on the influence of Kosmos being contagious. When we look at something like the example of Jesus healing the blind man, we’re so used to imagining that something physically clean touching something physically dirty will end up dirtying them both - but spiritually, when something clean and dirty touch, they both end up clean because of it.

In the Axes I’ve verbally illustrated…

In the previous article: the Dry - Vertical principle is the one of being clean, or spiritual. Is it any surprise that we very naturally point up to Heaven or down the Hell? The Vertical plane itself is the psychological plane of our mutual approach to Spirituality. And that of the Wet - Horizontal principle being the part of our psyche that is more physical; what’s around us and immediately observable.

Anyone thinking “but it’s said that the Kingdom is inside of us, and all around us” (implying in all four of those psychic directions) is really getting it.

Order and Kosmos are everywhere, and if you’re Jewish, Christian, Muslim or Sikhi, the universal spirit is present everywhere, and at the same time "transcends" all things created. That is called pan-EN-theism. (not pan-theism)

I know that saying the Vertical Axis represents the Spirit and the Horizontal represents the physical sounds conflicting with the Spirit being at all four; but that’s why I mentioned pan-en-theism. The point of these coordinates is to illustrate on a more simple level what the spirit inherently means in its’ relation to the physical plane alone. It’s a fractal.

Kosmos within the “Self”.

It’s this same reason that even without trying much, we gain understanding and everything seems to piece together over time. That’s the Kingdom at work in us, ordering everything over time, just by our experience and exposure.

Another way that’s expressed is through what Carl Jung calls the Self, with a capital S.

The Self, in his view, is the collective fullness and optimal potential of all humanity together. In his view, it is also the ordering principle, and the “Ego” (in this context meaning every persons individual experience) as little fragments of the Self, are working on the same thing from a smaller perspective.

Like the water mist that made a storm cloud making little rain drops, that end up hitting other drops and sticking together. We’re the little drops, little parts of a much bigger cloud, from which all us drops came - and return to. The water from the cloud is worth nothing to the Earth below it if it doesn’t give of itself, through its baby drops. That’s what we are, or at least the job we were designed to fulfill, and fall pretty dangerously short of most of the time.

Genesis chapter 1, verse 28 - And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and REPLENISH the earth, and subdue it.” I’ll end that verse there.

We’re the embodiment of the Living Ordering Principle, and if we’re living by that, led by yielding to it, it absolutely flows through us and into the world. If we yield to our design as a raindrop on behalf of the cloud, the world happily receives us and our gift for simply being what we are for the world.

If we do not yield to our design as a generous, life-giving force - we resist it and become hard. We can be made of the very same material but form into hail, and become a source of damage, destruction and loss; and the earth would not receive us when we land; we finally get to our destination and shatter on impact.

Another result and a huge observation of this -

Is that Order, or Kosmos, also has to be actively applied to the decaying physical world, but in the spirit world is received when we rest and accept what it offers.

That, to us, sounds a lot like the physical plane relating to toil, hard work, and “the Infinite Game” to resist against constant decay - while the Kingdom simply improves to no end; and wants to be expressed in its’ fullness on Earth…ahem as it is in Heaven. Sound familiar?

When we take that to heart, that means committing - not just interest, not just seasonal actions - but BECOMING, a source of Order and Life for everyone around you. The ground you walk on becomes holy because that’s where you stepped. Every discussion and interaction you have with others leaves them greater than they were before; mentally, physically, or mood…ally.

We all have a hunch for how that shows up for us individually, so we can’t tell you how your Kosmos acts through you. But for both of us, it looks like listening with patience, giving un-deserved for grace, and being an optimist.

While it’s on my mind, let’s talk about the word optimism.

Optimism: mid 18th century - from Latin optimum ‘best thing’.

Not simply blind hopefulness, like it’s used today.

Optimism is making the best of what you have; creating something that’s sum is vastly greater than its parts. Not just 1+1=3, but more like 1+1 miraculously equals 11. That’s the Kingdom. Optimism is having the vision to bring the profane up into serving its highest possible job. It is a radiant and magnetic skill to transform the lead around you into gold.

And Finally what comes to mind is the Sabbath.

The Seventh day, on which God rested.

That showed us something profound.

We’re not just made to labor, we’re made to serve each other - TOWARD the attainment and earning of the Paradise we lost.

We were made in the image of God; and as such, ideally A MINIMUM of once a week, we are to adhere to keeping the seventh day a day of resting in our divinity and remembering we were made to enjoy and play, as well as Create and Work to exercise our God-likeness.

Heaven is the space where Sabbath never ends, and where Play and Rest and Work are all the same thing we just can’t get enough of.

That cliche statement that “I just want to make the world a better place” is in the hearts of everyone at birth, because we’re still those little seeds of Heaven.

And when we turn to Face the Sun, and make the simplicity of that alignment and betterment, everything becomes fruitful. That starts with whispers, (you probably call it prayer), but those whipers become full-volume conversations. More and more frequently, that becomes a relationship, and that becomes action, action becomes habit, and habit becomes who you are.

That…is how we get it all on Earth, as it is in Heaven.

We’ll talk to you next week.

We appreciate you.