“Does Heaven Exist?”
by Kelvin Chin
It depends what you mean by “Heaven.”
If you mean, do you get rewarded by being a “sin-free” person and allowed to “enter the pearly gates” to a place that some religious traditions call “heaven”? My answer without hesitation is absolutely not. No such place exists. Except in the minds of some religious leaders (on this side and the Other Side) who want to scare people and therefore control their behavior through their personal or institutionalized beliefs about what their definition of “sin” is.
And so, after you biologically die, might you get fooled into thinking along those lines by such people or angelic beings? Yes. And might you then believe you either are or are not in heaven, depending on which side of the fence you think your behavior is on — sin or sin-free? Yes. But it’s a belief concocted by your own mind. It’s not a structural place depending on your behavior.
On the other hand…
If you mean does a place exist where anyone and everyone who dies biologically goes because every soul continues as a unique individual energy form, then yes. That place that I simply call “the Afterlife” exists. For everyone. I often avoid using the “Heaven” label because so many religions see it as a place of reward and not merely the energetic place where all beings exist in spirit form.
So when I hear people say, “I don’t believe in heaven or hell,” I can tell they’re rejecting the rewards and punishment notion. But they may not be rejecting the principle that the soul continues after biological death.
Kelvin H. Chin is a Meditation Teacher, Life After Life Expert, and Author of “Overcoming the Fear of Death,” “Marcus Aurelius Updated: 21st Century Meditations On Living Life” and “After the Afterlife: Memories of My Past Lives.” He learned to meditate at age 19, and has been teaching Turning Within Meditation and coaching others in their self-growth for 50 years. He helps people understand their life challenges through their individual belief systems, and helps them find their own solutions. His past life memories reach back many centuries, and he accesses those memories in his teaching and his coaching in the same way all coaches draw on their own available experiences for perspective and effective analogies. He can be reached at www.TurningWithin.org.