REDISCOVERY OF HEAVEN (an essay in preparation)
Eugene J.H. Kerckhoffs
(Leiden, The Netherlands)
Abstract
We begin this Abstract with a deliberately childlike narrative as a first encounter with our theory. Imagine a God dwelling in Heaven—not as a divine creator, but as a divine programmer—seated behind an unimaginably powerful computer, generating an infinite multitude of virtual spiritual and physical worlds. Each of God's countless virtual “selves” experiences its own unique virtual world, ultimately culminating in an illusory-real sense of self within an illusory-real world. We speak of “Spiritual Beings” (for instance: Angels) inhabiting spiritual realms, and “humans” inhabiting physical ones—all of it an illusion perceived as real. The elaboration of this idea in this essay is profoundly complex.
This essay explores a "pataphysical philosophy" grounded primarily in the author's personal spiritual imaginings, while selectively incorporating elements of science and religion. Embracing pataphysics as the "science or philosophy of imaginary solutions," we take this concept seriously—redefining it when necessary to advance our inquiry. Through imagination, we metaphorically penetrated Heaven to observe its essence, uncovering that Heaven—a Spiritual Singularity—is the only true Reality. All other so-called realities, whether spiritual or physical, are virtual constructs contained within Heaven. In this framework, everything originates from and unfolds entirely within Heaven!
Within Heaven, we identified four fundamental entities: AllSoul, AllSpirit (or All-Embracing Plan), AllReality, and AllGod. While distinct, they are fundamentally equal, providing the ingredients necessary for the Divine formation of virtual worlds. Lower-order manifestations of these entities, occurring at diminished levels of Consciousness, shape both the virtual physical world and, ultimately, the illusory-real human-experienced physical world. Specifically, lower-order aspects of the AllGod determine the existence of illusory-real Spiritual Beings (such as Angels) and illusory-real human beings.
We propose that all spiritual and physical realms are, at their core, expressions of Consciousness (Soul-Experience), with most fundamental grounding Divine Spirit. Everything—without exception—is subject to infinity, eternity, immutability, and unity, principles that we regard as elements of absolute Truth. Additionally, this essay examines the Hermetic Principle "As above, so below", demonstrating its relevance to our theory—for instance, considering the “Big Bang” as a physical analogy to Heaven’s creative force. Finally, we focus on “Synchronicities” (meaningful coincidences, originally described and popularized by the psychologist Carl Jung) as meaningful and provable events that ty our philosophy to Jungian psychology, while also giving it a mystical, interpretive dimension. This feature distinguishes our work from purely philosophical frameworks by grounding it in experiential phenomena.