Imagine there is no Heaven

If indeed we are spirit soul, primeval, and everlasting. Where do we go when our bodies die? If we are forever, would we not consider? Would we not even try? To see or have a glimpse of what is above us, waiting beyond that vast blue sky. 

“Imagine there is no heaven” is the catchy powerful first verse of the song “Imagine” by John Lennon. “No hell below us”, he wrote; “above us is only the sky”. But what is the heaven that he doesn’t want to imagine? Was it a place devoid of suffering? Was it a state of being, or simply a frame of mind? Was it a heaven of one’s fertile imagination? If heaven is a place; then it is, as we know, the abode of God, the Supreme Being. To imagine that there is no heaven is to imagine that there is no God. However, to imagine that there is no heaven is only to make a guess, to mentally form a picture, to conjecture, to have a notion without adequate foundation that heaven is not real. Ironically, to imagine that there is no heaven is to indirectly actually admit that there is. The word heaven itself is a proof that there is heaven or paradise. Heaven is believed to have no boundary; in fact, as stated in a certain song “Heaven is a place on earth”.

Heaven, as suggested by that song of the late John Lennon, is the cause of divisiveness, quarrel, chaos, suffering, and death; things that are opposed to the word heaven, which is believed to be a place of peace, happiness, and everlasting life. The song “Imagine” was written during the “Vietnam War”. “Love not War” was the slogan and battle cry of the peace loving people of a powerful country in chaos. “Without heaven, countries, and possession the world will live as one”, the song more or less states; a strong but dreamlike solution/statement of one of the greatest songwriters of that era, of the dreamer that apparently opted and urged the people to dream rather than to truly search for the real solution of the world’s problem of his time. Poison cures poison. “Partisanship is the greatest enemy of mankind. It was an effective dream, it helped solve the problem. It pacified, it cured, it intensified a movement for peace; but like any reactionary medicine, it has side-effects that also kill or make the people suffer.