Here are a couple of ways to think of “heaven and hell” in relation to our world, the physical Earth. In both diagrams, worlds close to the source are lighter, more perfect, and more real. Worlds further from the source are darker, rougher, and more illusory.
Picture above: The source and the Earth and all of the spirit-world-versions-of-Earth are superimposed over each other, and in this diagram we imagine that we can start pulling them apart in order to see each one, like an accordion file. The hellish realms are a little “out of joint,” and this article tries to explain why.
Picture below: Heaven and Earth (but not hell) are nested neatly inside each other like Russian nested dolls. At the center or innermost position of those nested dolls is the source (far right). Hell, on the other hand, consists of tormented worlds—flawed copies of Earth—that are rife with dark thoughts and unsavory behavior of people on Earth. The hellish realms are far removed from the source… as though they exist in Earth’s shadow and are not really part of the nested set of dolls. Again, we explore the reasons in this article.
“Heaven and hell” is a simple metaphor for the spirit realms associated with the Earth. One recent article in this series already explored the moods of the various happy realms (“heavens”) and the various troubled realms (“hells”), so this article just addresses the question of how everything came into existence in the first place.
How were all those realms in the omniverse created?
For the heavenly realms, at least, it seems pretty straightforward, as the last article tried to explain. Here’s a recap:
- The source (a.k.a. God, Allah, Yahweh, Brahman…) is like a brilliant, eternal sun whose essence of perfect love and total knowledge radiates from the source as “the life force.”
- The life force streams away from the source into many dimensions, slowing down in vibration as it goes, and along the way it creates and nourishes everything in the omniverse. Every universe, every world, every rock, every individual living being… everything is created and sustained by the life force.
The BIG problem with this nested-doll picture is that it’s backwards in terms of size and influence. The worlds on the right (represented by small figures) are vast and majestic in the omniverse in their brilliance, power, knowledge, validity, and influence. By comparison, the shadowy worlds on the left (represented by big figures) are dull, confused, illusory, and weak almost to the point of being nonexistent in the omniverse… as the next article in the series (#09) explains.
- Everything has a piece of the source at the center of its being… a soul.
- An individual soul is like a portal through which life force can flow directly into every individual thing to nourish it.
- That nourishment can be represented by a simple formula,
V ≅ R : N.
Here’s the meaning of the formula (slightly modified for this article): The Vitality of every entity in the omniverse is roughly equivalent to the life force that the entity Needs, in relation to the life force that it Receives). - Life force streaming from the source is apparently boundless.
There it is—simple enough—how everything is created and sustained: It’s all done automatically by the bountiful life force streaming nonstop from the source.
Still, there’s one big puzzle left to solve:
If life force streaming throughout the omniverse creates and sustains everything with life and love and knowledge, what’s going on in those hellish realms where everything and everyone is dark, stunted and in some cases grotesque? Why is there so much suffering in the hellish realms?
Best guess? Something is obstructing the flow of life force into those dark realms. Entities in “hell” can’t receive (R) the life force that they need (N), so they have lost their vitality (V).
If that’s the case, then what’s causing that obstruction? Can anything be done to clear it away?
Obstructing the Life Force
Here’s a simple metaphor of what I think is going on… how the obstruction happens (referring to the diagrams above):
As life force streams through “heaven” from the source to the Earth, most of it nourishes the Earth with life and love and knowledge, but a lot of that life force is blocked by the Earth—like sunlight hitting a big building—and so a big shadow is cast. The shadow cast by obstructed life force becomes the hellish realms around the Earth.
So the next question is…
Exactly what is going on in our world that blocks the life force and casts that big shadow to form the dark, hellish realms?
Here’s what I think is the answer, as I explained near the end of the previous article:
… our most ancient ancestors, the Edenites, (probably) subsisted entirely on life force, the way a few mystics in India still do today. I suspect the Edenites were busy engineering an entire ecosystem on Earth that subsisted on life force… and that was the paradise of legend. (At that point there was no “hell” around the Earth, since the Earth was nourished completely by the life force that streamed to Earth from the source.)
Then their descendants, the Titans, took over after the contentious age of dinosaurs, and they decided to change things up. They engineered a new way of life based on conflict and competition, so that entities on Earth could get their life force in a more complicated, more “earthy” way… by eating each other and by assimilating the life force of those they ate. All entities on Earth would continue to be sustained (primarily) by life force streaming from the source, but now they were also trapped in the convoluted drama of supplementing their life force by eating each other. (At that point, the cannibalistic nature of life on Earth, with all of its residual fear and suffering and aggression and malice, began to form the hellish realms around the Earth. The “natural” life force streaming from the source was being obstructed.)
Living things on Earth eventually became accustomed to that dog-eat-dog way of life and started neglecting their omnipotent connection to the source… and I suspect that was the basis of the true “fall of man”…. (and “hell” has been waxing and waning ever since… growing especially dark and brutal whenever humanity passes through a very troubled period on Earth.)
Years ago I began to differentiate between the noble and the savage aspects of human nature… similar to the concepts of good vs evil, and of light vs dark… but a little more precisely defined:
- Heaven is created by noble life force from the source. Noble thoughts and behavior (love, honesty, good will, serving others, omniversal understanding…) are what motivate life in the realms of “heaven” (the spirit realms between Earth and the source). Noble attitudes are spread throughout the omniverse by the life force.
- Hell is created by savage life on Earth. Savage thoughts and behavior (fear, deception, malice, craving, ignorance…) that prevail in the “hellish” realms do not originate from the life force. Instead, they are created here on Earth, largely by the conflicts between predator and prey and the endless struggle to survive and to prevail. The dark, savage thoughts and behaviors of living things on Earth spin off into the massive, shadowy spirit realms that we call “hell.” Essentially, savage thoughts and attitudes created on Earth are incompatible with the heavenly realms, and when they leave the Earth they have nowhere else to go, other than into the shadows.
So, hell has been created largely by savage attitudes that get stirred up on Earth ever since “the fall of man” and then spin off the Earth, to ebb and flow in those shadowy realms.
In short, then, it is the savage aspect of life on Earth that is incompatible with the source and obstructs the flow of life force streaming to the planet.
Can the Obstruction Be Cleared Away?
On a global scale? Probably not anytime soon. The living things on Earth are too wrapped up in killing and eating each other, contending with predators, competing, and struggling to survive. Relentless struggle, or “drama”…
- is a way of life on Earth,
- blocks the life force that streams to Earth from the source, and
- feeds the shadowy spirit realms known as “hell.”
Minimizing the drama, or making the Earth a “nobler” world, would have to include a nobler way of managing or regulating the planet (the subject of an upcoming article in this series), but it’s not liable to happen before the end of this Second Epoch.
On a personal scale? The best we can do during a lifetime is to remove the obstructions in our own life by making noble choices… so that we resonate more with the heavenly realms and open ourselves up to the life force that streams to Earth.
That’s the subject of the next article in the series.
Next: Welcoming the life force
Macy Afterlife: The Beacon 
Thank you Mark.
As I read this I started thinking about why I have continued my process of retiring from the hurry and problems of this world. An ongoing practice of the noble qualities is the way to live.
Hi John,
I agree, it takes a big load off the shoulders (and brain) when I’m able to withdraw from the drama lately. Not get so stirred up by politics especially. Still enjoy mild crime dramas on TV and in books, as though something inside craves drama. It’s going to be a challenge to write that next article on how to find peace amid Earth’s dramas.
Mark
..perhaps the other way is not to leave the drama but to live within it… let it pass through you, experience it fully, understand its craving, and then absorb it without any resistance.. that which is absorbed loses its own power, and is then released back into the world as a peaceful, loving flow of energy.
Many thanks Kim,
Another gem to assimilate as I start forming the next article. My wife agrees with your idea, often saying, “What we resist, persists.”
Mark
(Kim, I see you sent the comment twice, the second time as “wakahare,” and I’ll delete that duplicate comment. A reader’s first comment on this site has to be approved before it’s posted. After that, all your comments will be accepted automatically. Thanks for your patience. I see by your blog that you’ve given the matters to be discussed in the next article considerable thought. 🙂 https://wakahare.wordpress.com/page/1/
Mark)
PS – Regina’s reading a book called “Letting Go” by David Hawkins and says it’s eye-opening for her. That says a lot, since she’s so steeped in modern mystics like Joel Goldsmith (her eyes are already pretty wide open). John, she says you originally introduced us to the work of David Hawkins years ago.
Hm, for some reason it didn’t resonate with us at the time. Now, though, I might have to assimilate his information before I write the next article in this series.
Best regards from both of us,
Mark
I found this summary:
https://medium.com/@sarahcy/how-to-overcome-your-greatest-holdbacks-letting-go-by-david-hawkins-a8a78f1fab31
My thoughts are it is the way it is because without the savage and hellish energies/ dramas the lessons/experiences in life would never be the same, It could be perfectly how it should be however much some of us, (definitely me), want to avoid and there’s nothing wrong with that because taking care of your own light is important not only to ourselves but those around us….a message I’ve taken on board from the NDE author Anita Moorjani, a wonderful woman with a well-recorded, miraculous story recovering from cancer….she was discovered by Wayne Dyer.
‘God might know itself experientially through the expression of life in every one of its forms including the form that we call you’. This is a quote from Neale Donald Walsch who channels messages through writing. When I first heard this it stuck with me and then I randomly found the same sort of thing written in the bible.
It could be the Earth has hit an all-time low and is rising up out of it. The afterlife is trying to help which is part of their lesson too. Easy to sound rational but not so easy when going through a crisis or for those witnessing and experiencing the horror.
Thanks, Mark it gets everyone thinking and I’m looking forward to the next article
A question I ask is could we define positive, love, peace or the higher vibrations without the shadows of obstruction?
HI Kate, I still think (based on ITC contacts in that “ancient timeline” article) that our ancestors made big mistakes in that old megalithic civilization, presumably the “First Epoch.” Some of us alive today were among those ancestors in our early incarnations.
And it’s probably those dumb mistakes that created the hellish realms around the Earth and locked us into the cycle of reincarnation… so that we might try to clean up the mess we made way back when.
Anyway that’s my story (as it’s evolved so far) and I’m sticking with it. 🙂
Mark
Hallo again, Mark !
Perusing through your postings, I came over this interesting discussion you have been having lately. The theory that many of us incarnated now in Europe and the USA are souls who lived in the last days of Atlantis, has been reported by Dolores Cannon and Wes Penre, about whom we have elsewhere discussed. Out job here today seems indeed to make up for the mistakes “we” made in those days, when Atlantis was apparently destroyed by inhuman scientific research. Furthermore, countless souls of enlightened beings have also incarnated here, many who have never lived on Earth before, to aid us uplift this world into an “Ascension” of both humanity and our beloved planet Earth. Dolores Cannon wrote about these selfless souls in her book “The Three Waves of Volunteers”, reporting that these souls incarnated over the past 60-70 years in three waves, the most recent being the teenagers and young adults of the current generation. The astounding changes in human DNA, reported even by mainstream science, seem to have everything to do with the rising Schuman Resonance and the incoming force field from the central sun of our universe. I hope that we get it right this time – I for one believe that I have been around this place for a very long time, as you and many of your supporters most probably have been – and that there will truly be peace on Earth and good will to all men, women and children, for all animals, plants and minerals – and for the beautiful world we live on. 💓💓💓
Stephen
Hi Stephen, it sounds like I’ve found another kindred spirit here on this site.
Thanks for that information,, adding Dolores Cannon to the mix…….
Mark
Thanks, Mark….when I read the INIT information on the reincarnation and the tree of life article it seems to describe reincarnation as soul lessons that we choose but I hadn’t thought of it or realised that our souls are locked into a particular cycle to put things right. A karmic cycle.due to a mess made. I don’t doubt the ancient timeline you present and find it fascinating too.
Possibilities of what could, has and did happen might be infinite and maybe what happened on Earth is just one nuance.
Hi Mark it’s Kate…..this is a message I’ve had regularly since I signed up to your website…..not sure if it supposed to do this but always done it and been the same it seems on each new article