If there is a heaven

[Hunter of the Glade]

Hey everyone, I have a question that I have been wondering about for a while now. I've been a little anxious to post it on here, but thankfully this new Spirituality section makes me feel a more comfortable in doing so.

In the past year, I've read the two books, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Both these books describe what heaven is like. In the text, heaven is portrayed as "whatever you want it to be." It is described as the happiest place or emotion you've ever experienced or dreamed in your entire life.

Let me paint a little picture for you. In the book by Albom, a worker at an amusement park (who loved his job) gets killed by a technical accident at the park. Later, he goes to heaven after a series of stages looking back at his life. When he finally reaches heaven, he is back at the amusement park, where he loved most. The books ends with him being happy about keeping the lives of hundreds of people safe during his years at the park. He ascends over the park, is reunited with his dead wife in heaven, and the books ends with them soaring off into the distance in happiness and harmony. In The Lovely Bones, the main character also goes to heaven, where she also has her own personal space, a beautiful field with a gazebo where she relaxes with her old relatives - what she loved doing her entire life.

As you can see, both characters in each book have their own personal heavens. This entire concept got me thinking, quite extensively actually - if there is a heaven, and it is like what is detailed in these stories, then why not make heaven Pandora? If heaven actually exists like this, then my most treasured loves and passions throughout my mortal life will exist in there when I pass.

When I actually sat and thought about this, I pictured what it would be like in my own personal heaven. I would be on Pandora. I would be a Na'vi. I would be with Neytiri. I would be in the world I've constantly dreamed of being in ever since the release of this film. I would have that, and everything else that has been meaningful in my life; in one big personal heaven. Amazing would be an understatement.

Before reading these books, my outlook on heaven was different. I used to think heaven was just a place in the clouds of peace and harmony where souls just chilled (and it still may be, we don't really know). But this outlook seems a lot more plausible to me, and a heaven that is your own personal world would be absolutely awesome.


What are your thoughts on this?