Location of heaven and Hell

Every curious mind wonders about heaven and Hell. People state that it is scientifically unrealistic for heaven and hell to be present.

My opinion:

They surely are located somewhere, but where is not exactly known but even I could make a couple of scientific guesses beside all the other not so scientific ones:

1-) May be it's out side this universe, it's outside the expanding boundaries of time and space. Science agrees that the universe is expanding since the Big Bang ! But where is it expanding to ?
May be outside this universe is a state without space or time (because these are present in the universe only). In this state we come into an ecstatic communion with everything and we experience eternal bliss and serenity and that is Heaven.

2-) May be a billion light years away from here there is a huge glowing Giant star a million times larger than the sun. It's surrounded by rims of millions of planets each within the living zone of this massive star. Each of these planets is unique and beautiful with wide fields of grass and flowing rivers of milk and honey and with trees the size of mountains and the mountains even larger. The sand is of musk, bring joy and no tiredness to the feet which walk on it, the breeze is cool bring a refreshing aroma with it. Then there are green hills the size of continents on which you could lay forever, watching the pink clouds bring drift across a blue lake pouring a sweet rain to make the water even happier than before.

Then there are other planets and asteroid belts present near the star some being fiery hot and full of deep trenches and thorny trees.

3-) May be it's right around us, in another dimension or maybe several other dimensions. Science and mathematics agrees that there are at least 12 dimensions!

The point is they could be anywhere because God created them and He can do what he pleases.
It's up to us to either make it to Heaven or Hell.

Bruce lee's quotes of wisdom and philosophy

Here are few of my favorite quotes from Bruce Lee. Very good food for thought !


"All types of knowledge, ultimately self knowledge."

"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing."

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. "Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."

"If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love."

"Thoughts are things."

"The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think."

The timeless moment. — "The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time."

"Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."

Seek to understand the root. — "It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming."

"What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds "body feel" and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity."

"The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality — to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle."


Try to digest these for now and think about the insight this man has to life and reality because of his devotion to a form of art and not by doing some PhD.
I know from experience that when you involve passionately in anything (and I mean anything!) be it studying, boxing, football, martial arts, singing, acting, writing, climbing, swimming....... anything..... you start to get philosophy out of it, the deeper you go you start to deduce things about life and reality you start to understand the similarity between that sports, arts etc and Life.

You can always compare a real situation to a similar situation in that field in which you have become philosophically involved.
Hence you become wise in life as a whole just from the experiences in that particular field.

I fore example get philosophy, experience and insight mostly from my soccer playing.

The reason behind Greek mythology

Natural phenomena
What is rain? Why does it rain? Surely you know the answer that water evaporates from seas, lakes and trees it forms moisture at an altitude and condenses to form larger drops which are heavy hence fall as rain.
Our knowledge about rain is no more than 500 yrs old. And yet it has been raining for millions of years ! Then how did people living 5000 yrs back explain this phenomena?
You may say that people then would not have attempted to explain it, then you would be wrong ! Because rain too much or too little affected the physical and economical lives of primitive people more than it affects ours. So the intellectuals among the ancient did try to explain these natural phenomena.

Greek Gods and goddesses
The explanation put forward by the Greeks was of the supernatural in the form of gods. These gods worked just like the government where Zeus was the chief god (like the prime minister) and he was assisted by other smaller gods which were more specialized in certain fields like:
Athena - the goddess of wisdom and justics
Apollon - God of education, healing and music
Demeter - God of agriculture, grain and bread
Ares - God of war and battles etc ( for more info on greek gods check this site: click here )
The Greeks believed that the tensions and conflicts between smaller gods caused the changes in natures activity on earth. Thus excessive or insufficient rain was the decision taken by gods.

Ceremonies and rituals
People thought that drought and less rain meant that the gods were angry so rituals were made to please the gods. The nature of the ceremony or ritual depended upon the type of effect the people wanted, fore example:
Imagine we are greeks living in 5000 yrs ago and our gods occasionally relax and have fun and parties ! now if at a party a glass of water or wine is broken or spilled it causes rain to fall down from the heavens. So if we want less rain then what type of ritual would we develop ? May be we say that people party less in hot weather so the rite would have people lighting fires and indulging in energetic dances so that all this produce heat which would cause the gods to stop partying !

Conclusion
Two important functions were performed by these mytholgies:

1. They provided supernatural explanation of the natural phenomena
2. They reccomended rites and ceremonies by which humans could interfer with nature's decisions and overcome natural disasters