I offer in this article a map to your very personal “next level” within this reality of ours that I call “Earth Game”. Or, if the parlance works for you, to your very personal “Heaven on Earth”. I use that expression not to be esoteric or obscure, but rather because I see it as an accurate description of what we are about here on the leading edge of metaphysical exploration. The path forward is Multi-Dimensional; i.e., it leads beyond the four dimensions of Spacetime. And, Multi-Dimensionality is a match for the concept of “Heaven” that is spoken of in every spiritual tradition.
As will be seen, the path is simple, but not easy. We’ll begin with the simple part.
A preliminary point is that your path to “Heaven on Earth” is a personal one. It is not about creating a utopia for all. Nor is it about “fixing” everything out there in the world that one regards as suboptimal or worse. No, it is an inside job. No matter how much you care about “the world”, this is one of those “put your own oxygen mask on first” passages.
Now, to define what I mean by one’s personal “Heaven on Earth”. Firstly, no worries, no fear about the future. Secondly, no triggers, no anger about the past. Stir in ridiculous good luck. With your days replete with joy, love, and a rich experience of the physical realm. Whether or not you would label that “Heaven on Earth”, would you agree that having these components perpetually engaged would have you feeling blessed by the Universe?
To reiterate, you don’t get to the above by fixing everything in the past, present, or future that worries or upsets you. That can’t be done. You can only move forward in the now.
Nor can you get there by training your brain not to worry and not to be triggered. Again, can’t be done. Your brain is hardwired to identify things that threaten or upset you. For the foreseeable future, your physical brain (and the Ego that is its creation) will find things to worry about or be triggered by.
Fortunately, you are much more than your physical brain – which, for purposes of this article, I will call your “Thinky-Brain”. As I have written about elsewhere, the Consciousness that you are transcends the limitations of Spacetime that apply to your Thinky-Brain. Your Thinky-Brain cannot explore Multi-Dimensionality. But you can.
There are two aspects of your Consciousness that can go where your Thinky-Brain cannot. The first I will call your “Heart-Brain”. It is the non-physical consciousness that can be accessed through your fourth chakra, your heart centre. Through that portal, you can touch the otherworldly love and connection that I think of as the “Divine Feminine”. The second I will call your “Higher-Brain”. It is the non-physical consciousness that can be accessed through your sixth chakra, your pineal. Through that portal, you can connect with the entangled knowledge and wisdom of all-that-is. In other words, the “Divine Masculine”.
When your Consciousness is looking at anything through the Divine Feminine, you feel it through the lens of love. In that space, there is no fear, no worry. No surprise there; in a perfect love, the opposite of love – i.e., fear – cannot be.
When your Consciousness is looking at anything through the Divine Masculine, you feel it through the lens of joy. In that space, there is nothing that can trigger or upset you. You are only the adventurer, watching with enjoyment and curiosity as stories within stories unfold around you. Unconcerned, you are, with anything that has already happened. Your focus is on the ever-unfolding adventure in the now.
Important point to note: the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine do not compete; they do not vie for your attention. Rather, they adore each other. Think of them as intertwined as in the Yin-Yang symbol. Think of the Divine Feminine as breathing in, and the Divine Masculine as breathing out. The one holding the space, the unity, the connection; the other venturing out into a bold and endless exploration. Together, they encapsulate what this reality is all about: Consciousness at play in a sea of energy.
Others have recounted that every advanced civilization in our Galaxy (yes, there have been more than a few) has made its way forward – often with great difficulty – by finding their way to embracing both the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine. Where difficulties arose, that was often a function of emphasizing one to the exclusion of the other.
When one diminishes the feminine while overemphasizing the masculine, the result is a false or “toxic” masculinity. Correspondingly, if one diminishes the masculine while overemphasizing the feminine, the result is a false or “toxic” femininity. The toxic masculine says “Do as I say because I am stronger than you.” The toxic feminine says “Do as I say because I am a victim and you did this to me.” Both are lost. In the toxic masculine, one is perpetually angry. In the toxic feminine, one is perpetually afraid. No, the way forward is you need love and you need joy. Together. Just as you need breathing in and breathing out. With the true masculine engaged, one is never triggered, never upset. With the true feminine engaged, one is never afraid, never worried.
Let’s focus further on love and joy. From the foundation of love (breathing in), we venture forward into joy (breathing out). We all seek that foundation of love and joy. And yet, the vast majority among us are looking for love and joy in all the wrong places. We (mostly) seek to find love and joy out there, in the world. Thinking that we might somehow capture that love and joy and bring them back into our inner world, at last to feel good about ourselves and our place in the world. But that is not where we find love and joy. Rather, we source them inside first. As we do, one’s personal outer world will begin to mirror that.
Consider the apparent plight of a younger generation in our world. As they reach out into the world in search of love and joy, their searching too often does not find success. Rather, they increasingly feel a vague but pervading dissatisfaction. Something feels off, wrong, or even somehow unfair. I suspect that is because so many of that generation are evolved enough to unconsciously sense that they are looking in the wrong direction. They have not yet collectively figured it out that they need to look inward, into their own divinity. But perhaps they soon will collectively have something of a mass “aha” moment to that end.
For love, feel into the heart centre, the fourth chakra, the Heart-Brain. Sense the Divine Feminine. It is within you; it is fundamental and foundational to who you are. (Imagine a tiny golden light within your heart centre, accompanied by the gentle sound of a gong.)
For joy, peer through the pineal, the sixth chakra, the third eye, the Higher-Brain. Sense the Divine Masculine. It is also within you, and it is fundamental and foundational to who you are. (Imagine a silver light within your third eye, accompanied by the sparkling sound of Tibetan chimes.)
When you tune into that divine love and that divine joy, you can begin to make that your own broadcast frequency. As that increasingly becomes what you are sending out, it will increasingly be matched by what precipitates into your physical reality. That is how this reality works. In the meantime, the more you can hold that feeling of unbridled love and unbridled joy, the more you will enjoy your day-to-day experience here within “Earth Game”.
I noted above that the path is simple but not easy. The “not easy” part is that you will get thrown off your game, distracted. You will slide back into worry or upset. A life-long habit of reacting to the world will serially re-intrude. Your “Thinky-Brain” will insist that it needs to worry about the future and settle up with the past. In those moments, you will need to turn to your Heart-Brain and to your Higher-Brain.
Begin by developing the habit of paying attention to when you are being drawn into being worried about the future or upset about the past. In those moments, turn to those higher aspects of your Consciousness to take the wheel – and have your Thinky-Brain let go of it.
The difficulty with leaving it to your Thinky-Brain to sort out things that it is worried or upset about is that it will be attracting into your physical reality things that are a match for the worry or the upset. Conversely, if you can operate from your Heart-Brain and/or your Higher-Brain, the more you will draw into your physical experience things that are a match for, on the one hand, love, and on the other hand, joy.
You might ask, what if action is required? Well, take action. But don’t lose your tether to love and joy. Action from a place of worry or upset is not going to work out well. When you find yourself in a pickle, absolutely do whatever you need to do. But, as I wrote in EARTH GAME The Next Level, “embrace the pickle”. Let challenges be part of your story, your game, your adventure – rather than seeing them as somehow being a test of your value or worthiness (which they most certainly are not).
Some worries about the future can be particularly persistent. But even the most dire possibilities are Schrödinger’s’ cats; the future depends more on your mindset than on the present placement of atoms and molecules. Similarly, some upsets about the past can be particularly difficult to let go of. But if you are holding yourself in anger or grief, know that those energies are streaming into your future and affecting what will manifest in your world. Sometimes an “I can’t afford to hold onto this” mindset can make all the difference.
The key shift is to develop the habit of setting and, as needed, re-setting your frequency to love and joy. Rather than having your frequency depend from moment to moment on whatever happens to be happening out there in your world and in the world. With that shift, you are no longer a mostly passive participant, reacting to the world. Instead, your world begins to respond to you.
Your experience of time will change, because more often you will be in the present moment. When you are tuned to love, you are not worrying about what might happen. When you are riding a wave of joy, you are not fussing over what has already happened. Love and joy bring you into the now. Your Heart-Brain and your Higher-Brain are perpetually in the now, because they see through the illusions of time. Conversely, your Thinky-Brain is always caught in the illusion of time – getting lured into the future by worrying about what might happen or into the past by fussing over what has already happened. But if you can free your Thinky-Brain from those traps, you can give it the gift of being immersed in the present moment, where it can rejoice in the sensations of physicality. It will thank you. As for the future, the Heart-Brain will take on an “I got this” role; and as for the past, the Higher-Brain will similarly reassure your Thinky-Brain that “the Universe” knows what it is doing as it orchestrates reality. The more you develop the habit of refocusing your Thinky-Brain on the present moment, the more it will learn to trust the parts of your Consciousness that can see a much bigger picture.
Being increasingly in the present moment is a critical puzzle piece here. To illustrate, imagine yourself engaged in a sporting contest. If you are upset about a goal or score or penalty that has just happened, you are off your game. If you are worried that you might lose the game and the fallout that might happen from that, you are off your game. Only if you are focused on the present moment – what you are perceiving now, and what action you are taking now – can you find that “peak performance” zone where dreams come true. Well, you want to live your life in that peak performance zone.
Eventually, there you will be, perpetually in the now, feeling in love with life, and riding a joyful wave throughout your waking hours. All while being awash in the sensory delights of the physical experience that you were so eager to sign up for. How does that sound to you?
Perhaps this seems to you too pie-in-the-sky, too much of a stretch. But don’t dismiss it until you have experimented with it. As for plausibility, why wouldn’t you have access to the divine love of the divine feminine and the divine joy of the divine masculine? You are of the divine; you are part of Source/God. Because everything and everyone are part of Source/God. Because that is all there is. Play with that realization – or as much of it as you can let in for now.
Just take a few steps down the path. You don’t have to be an all-in true believer to do that much. Just see what you find as you explore. As those explorations unfold, you just might find yourself on your uniquely personal path to your very personal Heaven on Earth.