How to Get to Heaven (Without Really Dying) by Robert Kopecky

Author:Robert Kopecky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nde, near death experience, life between lives, life after death, heaven, spirit communication, robert kopecki, how to get to heaven, how to get to heaven without trying, how to get to heaven without really trying, CVR05262017, CVR06062017, CVR06232017, CVR12292017
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2018-01-18T15:44:48+00:00

The Gnostic Reunion with Heaven:

Ancient Wisdom Lost and Found

Have you ever stood beneath a starry sky looking into the heavens and felt like you were just a visitor here, subject to the beauty and the pain that’s the nature of “reality” in this world? Have you felt that there was a distant home of life and light that you’d been exiled from in a way—and that someday you might return there to be reunited with your authentic wholeness and happiness? It’s as if the stars were twinkling fragments of that fullness, and you yourself contained a little piece of luminosity, waiting to merge back into a heavenly radiance—then you’d be home, and you’d be free. I’ve felt that way at times in my life; and in two of my three NDEs, I visited a place like that—a place of luminous Love and light—very much like Heaven.

That feeling I’m talking about—the flash of mysterious understanding that Hindus call samadhi and Buddhists call bodhi—that glimpse into our familiar spiritual origin is the very essence of gnosis. A Greek word meaning “knowledge,” gnosis doesn’t refer to knowledge in the sense of knowing facts or figures, but instead to the way you know a dear friend or lover—a knowledge that can only come alive in your heart.

The Gnostic ideal, simply put, is that you really are a displaced part of Heaven, but during this experience of human life, that knowledge eludes you. Momentarily, you’ve forgotten your true connection and the way to return, so you’ve actually come back into this life to rescue your authentic self, trapped in your limited perceptions of this world. Within a transformative moment of gnosis, you’ll remember who and what you really are, where you really come from, and how to take yourself back home.

In Gnostic mythology, all of humanity is an expression of a divine light imprisoned on an imperfect plane of existence, enfolded in the beauty of earthly existence yet victimized by the suffering that is such a big part of it all. Each of us contains a connecting spark of the Divine Light within called the pneuma (what the Hindus might call atman). Our fragment, imprisoned in this body, has fallen away from the radiant, infinite matrix of limitless potential, which is our Source called the pleroma. Life’s sadnesses inspire the longing to reunite our spark with the transcendent unifying power that we inherently know to be our loving origin—the effort to restore ourselves to our authentic nature. When gnosis takes place, we’re restored as beings of light. We’re liberated and made whole by a “marriage” of all of our opposite aspects—our darkness and light, activity and stillness, desire and contentment, and particularly our masculine and feminine sides. We return to our elemental (even androgynously) balanced potential, merged back into the Divine. So gnosis is a kind of a romantic, but nonetheless logical, symbolic journey that can carry us from troubled to transcendent.

While inner discoveries of a spiritual nature may come about through the practice of

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