Tuesday 13 January 2015

Neverland

Peter Pan is epic.  Why else would the recent TV series "Once" make him the big villain and father of the deeply troubled Rumplestiltskin storybook character?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ud5w6LIVPk.  Even better is the movie "Finding Neverland (2004)" starring Johnny Depp as author James Barrie, where the man writes his own inner landscape in an unforgettable children's story.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3XCUiwAhc.  He speaks to the child within each of us.

However, Neverland is a negation of land, a figment of one's imagination, or pie in the sky.  That is what is often associated with the concept of heaven.  However, what if the thoughts in our mind build an internal landscape for the future of our soul?  Can we get to a good place in our minds that is actually real?  God promises His people a land where righteousness, justice and mercy reign, a spiritual home foreshadowed by the land flowing with milk and honey that was Canaan.   It is promised, and it is a real unseen place seen in the spirit.  The ears hear, the heart takes faith and the mind builds upon its truth, which is both a gift of love and a renewing of the mind as it transforms a person by discovering how things really work in the unseen.

Robin Williams depicts a doctor in love with his wife who ends up in a fatal car accident in "What Dreams May Come." The movie pictures his life after death in heaven, which is a picture of his ruling loves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o86DCFuUGqE   This is a Swedenbourgian view of heaven, where it is an expression of someone's mind.  This  is an interesting concept, giving further weight to the necessity of the discipleship of the mind.  http://www.mentalsymmetry.com/forum/?p=256

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