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Godwin, Joscelyn - Where is heaven?
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014156
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Joscelyn Godwin
But where exactly are all these worlds and planes situated?
Certainly there was a time when it made sense to place them somewhere on the Earth, underground, or in the visible heavens; hence the legends of subterranean kingdoms (still in vogue among the hollow earthers), of Lost Eden, the Fortunate Isles, Shangri-La, Shambhala and other places that the medieval cartographers confidently marked on their maps. Hence too, the situation of Purgatory on a mountain, as by Dante or in the spheres of the 7 planets that circle the earth in the Ptolemaic system.
But these have become an anomaly since the voyages of exploration and the revolution in cosmology, and it is pointless to pretend any longer that the images presented to the Soul are anywhere in the physical universe.