DocM
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Hi Seraphis,
I started a thread on this about 3 months ago. Basically, I call a hollow heaven "hollow," if it is populated by a group of like-minded individuals who may be very good people but whose belief system misses the mark of love that the inner heavens are made of. So good people who are fundamentalists (christians, jews, muslim, doesn't matter), and follow the letter of the law without knowing the heart of the law, sometimes hang out together, perpetuating their shared beliefs, but still willingly separating themselves (perhaps unknowingly) from God. I think Bruce tells a story of a retrieval in a hollow heaven where a couple are told that they can not marry, though they truly love each other. They begin to question the belief system they are in, and the lack of love or fear based dogma. At some point, they phase out (as you mentioned), realizing that there is a higher love, and they are being held back.
I haven't decided about the summerland (focus 27). Bruce describes not the abandonment of human desires and traits; quite the opposite. Discussions with famous philosophers, scientists, researching past lives, creating houses and material like objects just by thinking it - in some ways, Focus 27 is sort of the ultimate playground for human beings who are attached to the physical world and being human. This is why, I say that while I'd love a holiday there, I'm not so sure how long I'll stay. The shine wears off when you can do virtually anything. And where is your love in focus 27? If I build wonderful houses for myself, mansions, or indulge myself in debate with Einstein and Freud, is it not a type of self indulgence? How does activity like that show love of God and love one's fellow man?
No, in the end, Focus 27 is truly a way station, designed to let us indulge in human excess until we realize there is a higher love. So in some ways, in qualifies as "hollow" to me, though admittedly it is more advanced than the communities that follow only the letter of the scriptures without love at all.
Matthew
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