Happiness Continued

Yesterday I spoke about happiness and listed a whole pile of thing I’d really like to accomplish in the future, but they’re pretty diverse and intense, like writing a full piece for a philharmonic orchestra (I’d actually like to write a Requiem) and recording so many different bands across extremely varied genres. A while ago I started getting really bummed out because I thought that I’d never be able to do all the things I wanted to do in 70 years (or however long it is that the average human lives) and I started feeling like I had been dreaming too big.

Then something occurred to me: The New Jerusalem (commonly referred to as Heaven). If I’m going to the New Jerusalem after I die, why not just carry on my dreams and works there? A lot of people believe that Heaven is a nice place where we just sit on clouds and do mostly nothing, but I don’t believe that’s true.

If you look at the first two chapters in the Bible, they describe creation and the Garden of Eden as being a place where man lives in perfect harmony with YHVH, and at the same time he works. From what I’ve read and heard from scholars, the reason we no longer live like that is two fold: First, sin (please not the singular and not the plural, because there is a massive difference) and second the war which is raging in the second heaven.

In case you don’t know, there are three heavens: First heaven, which is where we reside, second heaven is what is commonly referred to as the ‘Spiritual Realm’ and the third heaven, which is often mistakenly called Heaven, and is also the residing place of YHVH.

Now, the second heaven is where demons reside, along with Lucifer / Satan and demons are allowed certain rights such as tempting people, oppression and that type of thing. As a result of their influence in our lives, as well as the tension which exists in day to day life as a result of second heaven activities, we are separated from YHVH.

If we look at the last two chapters of the Bible (Revelation 21 and 22), John describes the New Jerusalem as a city, which is clearly NOT found in the third heaven as it is not in the Throne Room, and it is remarkably similar to Eden in many ways.

So to me it makes sense that if Eden was what YHVH initially wanted for us, then why wouldn’t the New Jerusalem be the same in its general layout? This theorem of course helps me a lot because instead of having a hectic time limit (70 years) to do all the things I want to, I don’t have any time limit and I can do everything I want to the best of my ability partially on earth and mostly in The New Jerusalem.

When you think about it that way, meaning that we will spend most of our time in eternity, it seems silly to put so much emphasis on earth. So I have stopped worrying about my life on earth, and now do my best to enjoy my life, to do YHVH’s will, and to improve myself every day, and become more like Y’shua / Jesus daily.

Now, here are some of the things I’d like to do in my life (from here on in it’s pretty boring reading…):

BANDS I’D LIKE TO ENGINEER/MIX/PRODUCE

> Lamb Of God
> As I Lay Dying
> In Flames
> Killswitch Engage
> Slipknot (their new album is actually metal)
> Shadow’s Fall
> Threat Signal
> Divine Heresy
> Dream Theater
> Porcupine Tree
> Planet X
> Devil’s Slingshot
> Joe Satriani
> Paul Gilbert
> Coldplay
> Foo Fighters
> Take The State
> London Philharmonic Orchestra


MUSIC I’D LIKE TO WRITE/RECORD/PRODUCE

> A Requiem [an operatic orchestral piece written Latin for funerals, lasting approx. 45mins, sometimes a little longer]
> A rock album
> A big band jazz album [probably more than one of these]
> A thrash metal album [probably more than one of these]
> A progressive rock / metal album
> A blues album


THINGS I’D LIKE TO OWN

> My house in a great neighborhood
> My mixing room in the CBD [More on this tomorrow]
> A farm about 2 hours out of CT, to go away for weekends


THINGS I’D LIKE TO WORK OUT

> Quantum Mechanics specifies that for many of the physics truths that we rely on in day to day living (such as Relativity) to be true, there have to be more than 4 dimensions, and I suspect that if we take that truth to a deeper level, we will find that not only does anti-matter work as a balancing force in dimensions we don’t currently reside in, it will also explain spirituality.

> Time is not a constant, and is in fact able to be manipulated, but if it can be slowed down as well as sped up, then is it really what’s changing? We know that time is perpetual but can we use the fact that it is moldable as well as never ceasing to our benefit? And if so how? I have a few ideas…

> I have a few others, but they’re a little too complicated to summarize like I did with the others…