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That might be a bit binary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_heavens

Good and evil are very humanized concepts. Better perhaps to consider the processes that produce and remove Existence/Creation and the purposes for such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pralaya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzimtzum

Agreed. The real You produces a range of parallel lives to develop the human skills necessary for the purposes of the real You

Start by reading Zechariah Sitchin. He is a bit materialistic but still a big step forward https://archive.org/search?query=Zechariah+Sitchin&and[]=mediatype%3A"texts" After reading Sitchin try some of the material on the exopolitics site

What is the process by which survival of the human race becomes the priority? If that were really the priority surely humans would not keep killing each other https://thirteen.space/27-types-of-extra-terrestrial-beings/

Who made survival the purpose?

Is the human race unsuited to progress? How large is your sample? Has evolution bypassed this planet?

Has the human race progressed spiritually in the last few millennia? If so, some of the older texts may be more useful to the late joiners. If not, some of the older texts may be deficient

Often I was left to mind the children. In my view Gautama is saying: - mind (manage) the body and its desires - mind the emotional desires - mind the mental processes - stand above the minding

In my experiments, the self-aware human has more options than that For example, the human spirit operates across parallel timelines. Parallel processing occurs in nature.

In the ancient Egyptian and Kabbalistic traditions the human has 5 souls. The middle soul (anchoring in the higher mental body) corresponds to the Christian soul

This allows outer action and inner action in parallel. Chop wood while considering the flows of the cosmic ocean

Most religions write in their own interests. My repeated observation of souls (solar deva/angel) is that they care for quite a few human incarnations in parallel. Thus the human spirit may lose its over-lighting soul during an incarnation - but that usually is restored for the next incarnation I have observed cases such as severe autism where the soul has withdrawn. Sometimes the cause of withdrawal can be addressed.

On the other hand Christianity is introducing the concept of being a co-creator with God. Hopefully co-creators are not random in their actions The Hindu concept of Atma is interesting. In the human context that operates as spiritual intent - setting a direction. In most humans spiritual intent rests upon outcomes without specifying process. Process is delegated to other intelligences.

The central precondition to first stage enlightenment is control of the personality. That means control of physical desires, control of emotional desires and control of thoughts Men tend to achieve in that order. Women can sometimes control the heart before the mind Control of the personality allows stillness

In my youth I encountered the concept of: Entering into the Silence. Eventually I discovered that the Silence is not empty, it was merely that my inner hearing had not developed.

No hope for humans?

When a performance attracts the Muses, the performance is music. When the Muses do not come, Wagner called those tonal performances When a Mage does something with intent, the action is magic.

How do I get past the hallucination?

It seems to me that the core spiritual practices change with the unfolding of Earth humanity. For example, when I was brought up in Christianity, the human was so inferior to God that it needed to be saved. These days the concept of co-creator is creeping in. Perhaps humans are partners with The Source of All.