Heaven On Earth

The way things are when everything is in Right Relationship — here and now, progressively realized, a little more each week.

Heaven is not a destination awarded after death by an external judge. It is a direction of co-creation, and then a condition: the lived texture of a life, a Cell, a community, a civilization in which all parts are rightly related to one another, to the living world, and to ØNE. A community running toward it feels different to walk into — the children, the elders, the food, the air. So does one running the other way. Everyone has walked into both.

This is what makes The Goal measurable without being reducible. Heaven is already perfect as an Ideal, and it keeps getting better as All Creation works to make it so; the proper orientation is the progressive realization of the Ideal, measuring ourselves against progress rather than perfection. A little better every day is not a lowering of the aim. It is the only honest way to hold an infinite aim without despair.

Without this pole the compass has nothing to point at. The compass question asks whether a move makes life a little more like Heaven; if Heaven is only a feeling, the question decides nothing. Paired with Hell On Earth, it becomes falsifiable: two trajectories, both achievable, both being run right now at every scale, and the sum of choices is the world that gets inhabited.

In the Game, Heaven is what a Cell describes when each member is asked how would you like the world to be?, and the answers are woven into one shared picture of what Heaven looks, feels, and tastes like right where they are. That picture becomes the Vision; the Quest is the next real piece of it. Worksite Earth is the frame that turns the picture into a construction site.

Also called: Heaven · Heaven Here and Nøw · The Promised Land · the Kingdom Stands on: ØNE · The Goal · Right Relationship · Love Opens onto: The compass question · Hell On Earth · Vision · Worksite Earth · The Promised Land · Co-Creating Heaven · Quest In play: At the door, as the answer to what are we playing toward; at the table, as the Vision every Quest is cut from; at each Gate of the Path, as the condition being embodied rather than awaited. Sources: Heaven On Earth (wiki root, unmarked) · Heaven and Hell as Co-Created Trajectories (Card, status: captured) · Heaven Here and Nøw (root) · The 12 Pillars of LIØNSBERG · The Twelve Words (Little Book) · The DNA of Heaven (seed text, second draft). lionsberg.wiki: Heaven On Earth. Open: The root page treats Heaven as Vision, Intention, and Goal at once; the Card treats it as the terminus of a trajectory. Both hold, but a reader meeting only one will mistake a pole for a place.