The Keys of Heaven

The Last Prophecy - The Cathar Prophecy of 2021

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As you read consider that this is just a brief outline. Most issues are complex and often have legitimate exceptions or mitigating factors. 

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Religions most likely began as a way to explain the world. From what we understand of science and hard facts, there is not a God of Creation. Most religious scholars now also admit that the Genesis story is false. We know today that thunder and lightning are natural phenomena, not acts of God. So, all biblical passages speaking of a god shouting from the clouds are false. So are those suggesting a bodily elevation of Jesus or other prophets to the clouds and beyond.

In Greek mythology, a god did not create the world, the ordered Cosmos evolved from Chaos, a primordial void. The name of God in the original New Testament in Greek was Theou or Theos ("Cosmogony." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 June 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogony). Eos, Goddess of Dawn, may have been his female counterpart.

What We Know of Death and Dying

Near-death experiences (NDE) provide an insight into what happens after we die. According to Rachel Nuwer, a science journalist who reviewed the research in 2024, it is estimated that between 5 and 10 percent of people have experienced an NDE regardless of religion and culture. She described the experience as follows:

They may recall separating from their body and viewing it in real time from above... pass through tunnels and see light, encounter deceased relatives or compassionate entities.... People may undergo a life review and morally evaluate the choices they have made....

Although most people describe their NDE in glowing terms, a minority recount visits to hell-like regions, encounters with demonic beings or terrifying voids. (Nuwer, Rachel. "Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences: What the neuroscience of near-death experiences tells us about human consciousness." Scientific American, 14 May 2024, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lifting-the-veil-on-near-death-experiences/.)

Many of those experiencing NDEs often report communicating telepathically with entities, sometimes deceased persons or childhood friends, or luminous beings who are there to help, which suggests a sense of community or of a certain dynamic in the Afterlife. The idea of a lonely void in negative experiences reinforces this.

NDE videos on popular media websites often describe the luminous beings as angels or religious icons like Jesus and Mary, probably the result of faith-based expectations, and some sort of heaven with amazing green landscapes adorned with flowers, perhaps the Asphodel Meadows of Greek mythology. Many videos also describe people being told that they have not completed their mission or life contract on Earth and must return.

NDEs support the idea of our having a spirit that can rise out of the body and survive death as well as consequences for misbehavior and some kind of judgement in the Afterlife. Whether there is a God of the Afterlife or not, the dynamic of good and evil seems to exist.

There are two major events in the New Testament that support the idea of spirits having the ability to enter a physical body. The Gerasene Demoniac event (Mark 5:1-20) describes demons entering pigs and running them over a cliff. The other event is the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2) where many are said to have received the Holy Spirit in the form of flame-shaped tongues descending upon them, giving them the ability to speak in foreign languages.

Dreams may also offer insights into what happens after death. While in an NDE the spirit leaves the body outright, in slumber our senses are disconnected from it allowing us to experience the other dimension of reality without leaving it. The brain is physical and connected to our senses and memory. The mind is the non-physical counterpart of the brain open to the other dimension. It either perceives what is actually out there or imagines it as a result of physical memory interference and expectations. 

People in their last years on Earth often go through a life review, remembering even long-forgotten sins, transgressions, and wrongdoings.  

The Way

Early Christianity started as a Jewish sect which followed the Way, a path to heaven. We know with certainty that most scriptures contain inconsistencies, fraudulent additions, exaggerations, and outright falsehoods. For them to be sold as the word of God is deception. 

On that basis, fundamentalism cannot be a true path. 

Non-fundamentalist views can also be 

problematic as nobody has the authority to change scriptures.

The broad picture is not that one religion is good and the others are not (i.e. religious racism) but that in each faith there are good people and bad ones and that we want to unite the good. The same is true of race and gender. There are racists in all races, and those are the enemies. If you think that your gender is better than the other, you are a genderist. Tens of millions of men have died in WWII to defend life and liberty, paying the ultimate sacrifice. The gender has nothing to prove. Women have also pulled their weight in society. There are bad individuals in each group.

When we fail to unite the good, 

it is the authoritarian autocrats, the terrorists, the racists,

 the genderists, and the criminals that win. 

Karma

... Pillage, embalming

Merit

Prayers, repeating the same thing over and over, does not grant you merit. Neither do praises or loyalty to God. Rituals are for the most part idolatrous. It is actions that matter; charity and volunteering over and above standard requirements, for example, will generally grant merit.

Self-sacrifice, suffering, fervency, not hell but wasted time, no merit, values G. Thomas

Forgive the Little Things

What we forgive each other is not usually held against us in the final judgement. As such, it makes sense to forgive the little things and, perhaps, be generous in our judgement of others. The more you forgive of others, in terms of little things, the more of your transgressions are forgiven in a way.

Putting in the Hours

Perhaps, in trying to measure one's worth or merit, an easy question is "have you put in your time?" Have you worked a life in your lifetime or have you chosen to live off society when you were physically and mentally capable of working?

Paying One's Debts

You may have put in your time, but have you spent more than you have earned is the next question. If that is the case, you will be leaving debts to others at the end of your life and your net value will be less than a life. As a poor, if you have money leftover in you bank account, you are clear. If you are middle class and above, it depends on how income is distributed in your society. Some countries can be overly generous with the wealthier.

Paying Your Taxes

If you were capable to and have worked a life in your lifespan, you have essentially met your own needs. But, that does not add up to the modern world's standards of living, especially in middle and high income countries. Think of all the social safety networks, medical services, etc. that are there for you.

Paying your taxes is therefore part of the equation.

Going Over and Beyond

Some people choose to go above the standard and support others in addition to paying their own way through life. They think above and beyond their own selves. They give a life to those who are unable support themselves. This is obviously meritorious. 

Stealing as a Way of Life

There are people who choose to steal their way through life. Not only do they not earn a life (-1) in their lifetime, but they steal one (- 1) from others. That is a deficit of two lives. 

In addition they cost society a lot of money. Think of theft monitoring in shopping stores, cameras everywhere, street lights at night, locks on doors, alarm systems, safety vaults in banks, bullet-proof glass, passwords on accounts, two-step verification, guns for self defense, police services, prisons, etc.

There are also often psychological costs associated with crimes. When your house is broken into, you lose your sense of security. Someone living off theft makes dozens of victims a month, perhaps even a week. How many is that over a lifetime!

Choosing to steal your way through life is starting down a slippery slope that quickly accelerates. 

Violence

Violence can have a severe impact on people. It can result in long-lasting suffering, whether it occurred at home, in schools, or in the streets. Severe or prolong violence or intimidation can result in decades of suffering even after it has ended. Violence gives power to bigger and more muscular people and criminals at the expense of smaller individuals (children, women, men of smaller size, etc.). 

Society overall has rejected violence so that life is based of fairness and justice rather than the law of the jungle.

Physical intimidation is also a way of getting what you are not entitled to, despite the lack of actual violence. Violence and intimidation give a person the power to obtain what they would not otherwise get. It is effectively stealing from others just like theft, but with significant suffering resulting. 

Children of Darkness

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