Adam Blatner

I was told an anecdote by a friend, who said: “A friend of mine who started out in apocalyptic fundamentalist group, whose leader said there were the only ones who would be in heaven, and the only ones with certain privileges in heaven etc. also had a clairvoyant relationship with his wife.  His wife preceded him in death and has, according to him, been telling him that was all Bulls**t, and everyone in the spirit world is in a very similarly situation as that on earth…. still exploring, still learning, still feeling their way along.  She said there was absolutely nothing “special” about where she ended up, although everyone was very helpful, but that the promises of their prophetic leader was all B.S. So she told him that is what he should expect and not what their Prophet said. My friend then quoted the Zen Master, “Ting,” a Zen Master, said: “Believe what you like. Or make something up.” (But I couldn’t find this quote on Google! So I don’t know yet if I believe that there ever even was a Zen Master Ting.)

Anyway, riffing off the anecdote above, speculating playfully, here’s how it works: Those who have attained truly “higher” wisdom get to be angels. Free of the constraints of material life, they find that there are innumerable levels of oversoul, and that the responsibilities are adjusted to their elevated level of consciousness. But there are multiple levels of elevation. The job to be done is the same, but on their level: How to help make the universe better, how to help God awaken or be born again or evolve more fully. These challenges are considerable. One must maintain a high degree of spiritual equanimity because there is so much folly and limited consciousness among their charges. Oddly enough, angels can “do” very little except practice the arts of subtle spiritual rhetoric: How can we better lure and persuade three-dimensional-plus-time beings to move towards higher consciousness in a million ways?
— we love them and want them to have fun, eat tasty foods, cook well, make wholesome love, enjoy sensuality, nature, play games, and on and on. We’re evolved enough to appreciate the thousand-fold aspects of a diversified life.
— we want to promote further harmonic relations but also just enough friction to stimulate further growth. (Sometimes a kick in the pants can elicit more growth than a pat on the back.)
— we see their potentials and talents more clearly than they (ordinary humans) do: How to get them to discover these talents and abilities? As the King of Siam (Yul Brinner in the movie) in Anna and the King (broadway musical of the 50s) says, “Is a puzzlement.”
… etc. It’s a fun game: If you were an archangel, what would be the job descriptions of the various angels that you supervise?

I was told an anecdote by a friend, who said: “A friend of mine who started out in apocalyptic fundamentalist group, whose leader said there were the only ones who would be in heaven, and the only ones with certain privileges in heaven etc. also had a clairvoyant relationship with his wife.  His wife preceded him in death and has, according to him, been telling him that was all Bulls**t, and everyone in the spirit world is in a very similarly situation as that on earth…. still exploring, still learning, still feeling their way along.  She said there was absolutely nothing “special” about where she ended up, although everyone was very helpful, but that the promises of their prophetic leader was all B.S. So she told him that is what he should expect and not what their Prophet said. My friend then quoted the Zen Master, “Ting,” a Zen Master, said: “Believe what you like. Or make something up.” (But I couldn’t find this quote on Google! So I don’t know yet if I believe that there ever even was a Zen Master Ting.)

Anyway, riffing off the anecdote above, speculating playfully, here’s how it works: Those who have attained truly “higher” wisdom get to be angels. Free of the constraints of material life, they find that there are innumerable levels of oversoul, and that the responsibilities are adjusted to their elevated level of consciousness. But there are multiple levels of elevation. The job to be done is the same, but on their level: How to help make the universe better, how to help God awaken or be born again or evolve more fully. These challenges are considerable. One must maintain a high degree of spiritual equanimity because there is so much folly and limited consciousness among their charges. Oddly enough, angels can “do” very little except practice the arts of subtle spiritual rhetoric: How can we better lure and persuade three-dimensional-plus-time beings to move towards higher consciousness in a million ways?
— we love them and want them to have fun, eat tasty foods, cook well, make wholesome love, enjoy sensuality, nature, play games, and on and on. We’re evolved enough to appreciate the thousand-fold aspects of a diversified life.
— we want to promote further harmonic relations but also just enough friction to stimulate further growth. (Sometimes a kick in the pants can elicit more growth than a pat on the back.)
— we see their potentials and talents more clearly than they (ordinary humans) do: How to get them to discover these talents and abilities? As the King of Siam (Yul Brinner in the movie) in Anna and the King (broadway musical of the 50s) says, “Is a puzzlement.”
… etc. It’s a fun game: If you were an archangel, what would be the job descriptions of the various angels that you supervise?