{"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":"2026-09-01T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:30:52","slug":"heaven","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream 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. What possible answers are there that cause us to look away so reflexively? 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":25,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5275\/revisions\/6045"}],"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}]}}