A New Heaven & A New Earth

A new earth pours its flames through your wounded
wide open heart...

The Biblical book of Revelation tells us that a “new heaven and a new earth” will be created. This refers to an awakened mind and a transmuted state of matter.

The very quality of our awareness will be clarity, light, and joy. Little thought will be required, as most problems will be solved by intuition. The alchemy of our perception will transform the earth around us into a new state of energy: the state of Glory.

We will have glorified bodies, but we won't need to die and go to heaven to receive them. We create these Resurrection bodies now by raising the vibrations of our energy to a higher frequency. This is the purpose of yogic techniques, art, music, chant, breath-work, seva, and meditation.

But it is essential that we stop paying so much attention to the media. Media addiction is the most unhealthy addiction of all. The media serve as a dark counter-weight to our evolution. They mean to drag us downward and backward into negativity, density, and rage. But they have their purpose: they make the contrast between positive and negative energy so obvious it helps us to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Our work is to rise, expand, and embrace, as we weave a new earth out of a new substance. Glory is beyond matter and spirit, imbibing the organic essence of both. Your new body of Glory be neither heavy, resistant, nor inert; but diaphanous, in ceaseless flow, energized and innergized at once. This Resurrection body will not fight against sickness, but will embrace the fever, expanding into new perceptions of wholeness.

Every molecule will glow from within. In each act of perception, you will behold your own Self irradiating the object. You will love your neighbor as yourself because you clearly perceive that your neighbor is your Self. You and the other are effulgences of the same energy, which is pure consciousness.

In the new creation, subject and object, mind and matter, are one continuum. The exile of the intellect from physical creation will end. The exiled ego-mind will re-weave its sensibility into the earth, and the earth will be restored as the Kingdom of Heaven within you.

The Garden of Paradise is not above, or in the future, or lost in a mythic past. The Garden pours outward from your Hridaya, your wide-open wounded heart. Here, "heart" means literally this beating muscle at the core of your body. Yet the physical heart is a matrix for many fields of subtle energy. Hridaya chakra is the self-luminous kaleidoscope whose center is not above, nor out among the galaxies, but right inside your chest. Now hear the words of the Prophet Isaiah, chapter 62:

You will be a crown of splendor in the Lord’s hand,

a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

No longer will they call you Deserted,

or name your land Desolate.

But you will be called Hephzibah

(My Delight is in Her)

and your land Beulah (Wedded).

for the Lord will take delight in you,

and your land will be married.

As a young man marries a young woman,

so will your Builder marry you;

as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,

so will your God rejoice over you.

The builder is the subject. The land is the object perceived. Subject and object will no longer be estranged, but wedded as a groom and his bride. They will be one flesh, vibrations of the same Glory. All that is required is your consent.

Allow the fire of Christ and the breath of Mary Magdalene to pour through your Hridaya chakra. Their essence will condense into a new earth. If you prefer the Eastern yogic terminology: allow the light of Shiva and his paramour, Kundalini Shakti, to flow out of your core, filling creation with the energy of bliss.

Through your divine human heart, celestial powers are yearning to surfeit each cell of the body, and each moment of perception, with the luminous sensuality of Paradise. The scent of heaven will arise in each atom. Remember, if you choose negative energy, you will see only negativity around you. But if you consent to the indomitable radiance of God, then you Are that radiance: you recreate the earth. This is what Christ taught.

“The Eye is the light of the body. If your Eye be single, then your whole body will be filled with light. If your Eye be dark, then your body will be filled with darkness!”

And thus the ancient Vedas teach, “Drishti, Shrishti: As you see your world, so your world will appear." Never underestimate the role your own consciousness plays in creating the earth. Any solution to a problem seen "out there" must include the seer. Consciousness and matter are one continuum, inseparable. Bless the earth with the Eye of your heart. Breathe God into matter. You Are the light of the world.

Photo: Our backyard, taken by my daughter Abby