Originally posted by Netties Hermit
K - just quickly cause I don't want to distract from the ^ queries from the above poster which I could only wish to so eloquently put - (and I want
to stay on topic) but (on topic) the book/movie basically works on the premise that we retain our belief systems when we die and that death is not
autonomous with "enlightenment" (whatever that means). And most importantly that "death" of the human transcends into .. "You Create What You
Believe" - basically - a self-imposed environment.
Basically - what one expects is what one gets.
There is way more than that in the book and/or movie though. He delves into reincarnation, soul-mates, akashic records and many other things that I'm
pretty sure you don't believe in ... so for the moment ... I'll just stick with the topic at hand.
I have many queries on this, but I guess I'm just confused as to ... if one creates their own heaven (or hell) - then what is the real
reality?
See - I don't believe in heaven or hell. I have no religion. None.
It has recently occurred to me that you are trying to reach the people that have a dogma. What about those that don't?
So what will be my reality be?
Will I finally get my little mountain cottage with my little fireplace and my Love by my side?
If you have a full understanding of what human intellect actually is, and what the limitations and capacities are, then it's literally up to you to
build your own afterlife to suit exactly what you want from it. The only bitch is that you'll know that your capacity to discern is crippled by that
very gift of creative subjectivity. Nothing else exists that is capable of subjectivity - not in perception or even in capacity to conceive of such a
thing - other than the human being. The human being is the natural epitome of physical existence, and the only intellectual expression that exceeds
it is - literally - the human being's own deliberately initiated "full contextual environment" expression, and even then this entity is "human"
at the unit level of what makes it dynamic and consciously aware.
You are the most fortunate form of existence to ever emerge, and while that seems like a quaint fairy story, I can't really find a more accurate way
of laying it out in plain language. It's tragic that for some people, being human is and will always be a curse. Their need to oppress and be
oppressed is their curse, and while you can't rescue such a person, you can choose to allow them to involve someone other than yourself in their
misery.
What you can't do is simply ignore another human being on that side of the divide. Dynamic intellect is - well - it's dynamic, and it will break
through whatever imaginary construct you try to build around it if it knows better than to buy into that construct. The human being rules the
informational realm, and that's always important to remember. Still, no human being can rule another human being without the conscious or unconscious
consent of that ruled human being. If you only know that one fact, then your afterlife will always belong to you.
It can't be that easy. No way.
It's not that easy. You've got a hell of a lot of conscious and subconscious programming to overcome. You can feel completely confident as to the
truth about reality, but then you can be hit with a conflicting construct that's so real it shakes your assurance right to its core. And if you think
that this isn't possible, then you're especially vulnerable to such an attack. Perception is severely blunted on this side of the divide. There are
concrete reals that can't be ignored since your corporeal perceptions are filtered through the hardware of your corporeal brain. On the other side of
the veil, there are no such hardware limitations. You're freer, but you're also more vulnerable to deceptions.
No, nothing is that easy. It takes a true visceral certainty to stand up to what awaits you within the eternal realm. It also takes a full and
internalized knowledge that you'll always be able to extricate yourself from whatever mess you find yourself buried within. That's because you will
definitely falter at some point. Everyone does. Most never find their way out of whatever construct it was that succeeded in obliterating their
certainties.
And if it is eternity? Then what is that all about?
Eh - that's for another discussion I'm guessing. 
Eternity - going forward from the instant of physical emergence - is pretty tough to visualize. I wish I had a better handle on it myself. A fact
-once emerged - is always a fact, and intellect (human perception) - like a fact - is information. If a fact is eternal, then so is human perception.
The logic is pretty simple, even if the implications are nearly unfathomable.