21/11/2025
Most of us were handed the same framework growing up — heaven up there, hell down there, behave and you’ll be fine. A set of stories we were told to accept, not explore, and anything we couldn’t grasp we quietly learned to ignore.
That framework shaped how we made sense of things, even long after we stopped believing it word-for-word. And because we were never given language for anything outside it, a lot of what we feel now doesn’t have a place to land — so we end up doubting our own experience.
And it's then that we start exploring- old stories, all stories and begin to wake up to the symbols and metaphors we'd for so long been lost in ...never really connecting the dots.
So the dots...some of you are connecting...so I shall say something plainly:
Heaven and hell aren’t places.
They’re states of consciousness.
Not poetic ones.
Not symbolic.
Actual shifts in awareness that change the way reality feels from the inside.
You’ve experienced both, even if you never named them that.
There are the tight, contracted states — where everything feels pressured, overwhelming, or too close.
And there are the open, steady states — where you’re clearer, more present, and life feels different without anything external changing.
We were taught to call this mood, or attitude, or weakness.
But that doesn’t account for the depth of it.
Because the state you’re experiencing right now — the one tied to the body — is only one expression of consciousness.
It’s the most physical, the most reactive, the most tightly filtered.
It’s not the whole picture.
There are quieter states that don’t speak through thought or emotion.
They’re not dramatic or far away — they’re just deeper.
Most people brush up against them and then dismiss it, because it doesn’t fit the old framework we were handed.
That’s why I’m naming it here.
Not as a belief to adopt, but as a way of recognising your own experience —
especially the parts you never had words for, so you ignored them, the same way so many of us did.
You’re moving through states of consciousness all the time.
Once you can see that, the inner shifts stop feeling like something’s wrong —
and start making sense as part of being human.
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