{"id":5275,"date":"2026-06-14T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/?page_id=5275"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:42:14","slug":"heaven","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Heavens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Camus tells us that there is one serious question in philosophy, and that is the reason for not committing suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Il n\u2019y a qu\u2019un probl\u00e8me philosophique vraiment s\u00e9rieux : c\u2019est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d\u2019\u00eatre v\u00e9cue, c\u2019est r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la question fondamentale de la philosophie. <\/p>Le Mythe de Sisyphe<\/em> (1942)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, there is one serious question in psychology<\/strong>, and that is, why does one ever dream of anything other than Heaven?<\/strong> If you are free to dream anything, why dream of anything else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For about 18 months between 2020 and 2021, I dreamt of heavens. I do not mean any religious heaven. I believe in no such thing. I mean, a virtuous circle of awareness, which, in a dream, is a place. It is a psychedelic phenomenon with many appearances and manifestations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had never thought to imagine what a virtuous circle of awareness could or should be. I never thought to imagine what a heaven logically can be. I never thought to imagine what the social order of a heaven could or should be. These are the fundamental questions, precisely because we are so busy with every other question. There is only<\/em> the question of heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following articles are a haphazard collection of essays about this topic. I realise that it deserves a book, but I am an unworthy author. I did not reason anything out consciously. Everything was presented to me as a lesson, either implicitly or explicitly, in dreams. Because I have lost the dreaming awareness necessary to get back to heavens, I have only my notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pleasure and Nothing But<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is possible for people like me to stumble into a heaven. But it is hard for them to stay.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dreambliths<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no English word for the opposite of a nightmare. I call them dreambliths.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alliances of Kindness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heaven is no reward for a life well-led; it is the act of leading a life well.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Mode of Child Awareness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the dreaming world, the decisions you make are less important than the perspective you take.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Similarity in the Celestium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The principles of similarity are at work in Heaven as they are on Earth.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Apprentices and Allies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A society based on overlapping pair-wise relationships in networks of pairs<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shaker Heaven<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so opposite to ours, and in this most zen way!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Heaven Spread over the Earth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and men will not see it<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Jokes told in Heaven<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heaven has its own humour. The joke is on us.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hell exists. And you are closer to one than you think.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Camus tells us that there is one serious question in philosophy, and that is the reason for not committing suicide.  Il n\u2019y a qu\u2019un probl\u00e8me philosophique vraiment s\u00e9rieux : c\u2019est…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5395,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5275\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}