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Paradise
Paradise takes its symbolism from the more generic Fields and meadows symbolism.
Whereas fields and meadows may be seen in spiritual experience when you are alive, Paradise is specifically seen after you have died. Some New Age thinkers call it ‘The Park’ although it has none of the organised tended features of a municipal park.
It is not, and I repeat not, a place only for the religious – in fact given the turmoil and torment that many religious people create for themselves [and others] they are more likely to have to spend a great deal of time in the Fire level and in a field!
From Wikipedia
The word "paradise" entered English from the French paradis, inherited from the Latin paradisus, from Greek parádeisos (παράδεισος), and ultimately from an Old Iranian root, attested in Avestan as pairi.daêza-.
The literal meaning of this Eastern Old Iranian language word is "walled (enclosure)", from pairi- "around" + -diz "to create, make". By the 6th/5th century BCE, the Old Iranian word had been adopted as Akkadian pardesu and Elamite partetas "domain". It subsequently came to indicate walled estates, especially the carefully tended royal parks and menageries…..Hebrew pardes appears thrice in the Tanakh; in the Song of Solomon 4:13, Ecclesiastes 2:5 and Nehemiah 2:8. In those contexts it could be interpreted as a park, a garden or an orchard.
Observations
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- Acute porphyria attack produces a walk into Paradise
- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - On alchemical metals
- Alexander, Dr Eben - the light, the tunnel and paradise
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 01 - 3 The Glass Table
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 07 - 2 The Dormouse's story
- Asian 'flu produces NDE
- Atharvaveda - XII 1 Hymn to goddess Earth - Part 11 May her benevolence lead us to paradise
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Peacock's excuse
- Biophysicist discovers new life after death: Dr Joyce Hawkes at TEDxBellevue
- Blodeuwedd
- Byrne, David - The Sermon on the Mount
- Car accident results in NDE
- Cassidy, Joe - Out of body experience
- Charles E. Hicks – has a NDE with celestial music and a sight of paradise
- Cicero Newell - Indian Stories – The Vision of White Thunder
- Concept - Korean mystic shamanism – Judgement, Paradise and Hell
- Concept - Korean mystic shamanism – Psychopomp
- Corbin, Henry - The Paradise of Yima
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Glow-worm
- Dante - Paradiso - Purification by Light
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 12 & 13
- Deaf-mute hears music from Paradise, which he called wonderful, and recovers from serious illness
- Dickinson, Emily - Of Paradise’s existence
- Doré, Gustave - The Bible - Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections - Mr George Sandwith has multiple OBEs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mr A. Crane, of Leicester has an OBE
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mr C. Arnold has a NDE
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs L. Hemingway has a Near Death experience
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs M. Maries has an NDE
- Embraced by love
- Etemenanki
- Fawcett, Lt Colonel Percival Harrison - The City of Z as paradise
- Four year old has NDE
- From life to death, beyond and back - Dr Thomas Fleischmann - TEDxTUHHSalon
- Frost, Robert - Even the bravest that are slain
- Genesis 02 - Garden of Eden
- Gibbings, Robert - Wisley
- Gurdjieff - Beelzebub's tales to his grandson - The Brotherhood
- Guthrie, Woody - Heaven
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - Boy hand me the wine
- He "dreamed" he was dying and was being sucked down through fog and quicksand
- Healer H - An enormous caterpillar unusually wide
- Homer - The Odyssey - The Elysian fields
- Hyangga of Korea - Prayer to Amitayus - Kwangdok
- Hyangga of Korea - Requiem for the Dead Sister - Master Wolmyong
- Images of Paradise in the NDE 01
- Images of Paradise in the NDE 02
- Images of Paradise in the NDE 03
- Images of Paradise in the NDE 04
- Images of Paradise in the NDE 05
- J. W. Skilton – Goes OOB to paradise
- Jacolliot, Louis - The Bible In India - 01 The Fall according to Shaivism
- Jacolliot, Louis - The Bible In India - 02 The Fall according to Shaivism
- Jacolliot, Louis - The Bible In India - 03 The Fall according to Shaivism
- Jacques Cambry - Voyage dans le Finistère - A Celtic legend
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 05 The Story
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Henry Corbin - The Paradise of Yima
- Jules Lyons and her near death experience
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - Spirit communication
- Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
- Major Newell - Indian Stories – The experience of a Native American Indian chief
- Marie-Claire experiences divine love in her NDE
- Master Naong - Song of the Pure Land
- Mircea Eliade - Belet
- Miss M, an 18-year-old girl, hysterical and cataleptic goes out of body and hears celestial music
- Monroe, Robert - The place of pure peace
- Moody Blues - Visions of Paradise
- Mrs G. A. Paton of Hove, who died and her death certificate was signed by her doctor, arrived in the death-chamber and saw her own corpse
- Nahuatl legends - Aztlan
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from On the Ascension
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 03
- Out of body from chloroform
- Parker, Shelley E - Senses the death of a little girl
- Plutarch – The Vision of Aridæus 05
- Po Chu-I - The never ending wrong
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Eldorado
- Qu’ran - Judgement Day; The fate of those who go on the straight path - Surah Al An’am
- Rumi - Love poems - Already, don't you rush toward the garden
- Rumi - Mathnawi - We have all been parts of Adam
- Rumi - Misc - Garden of Love
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - Do you want to enter paradise
- Russell, George William - Song and its Fountain
- Ruth Hall has an NDE and goes to paradise hearing celestial music
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Death of a Friend
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Window of Eternity
- Saint Brendan - 01 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - A glimpse of Paradise
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Eight degrees of Paradise
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Landscapes of the mind
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Levels and layers
- Sir Arthur Grimble - The spirits of the ancestors
- Soustelle - Aztecs and Mexica - The three routes on death
- The Architect – The Matrix – The Ages of Man, Increments, configurations and The Great Work
- The Book of Taliesin - Kanu y Byt Mawr
- The Lotus Sutra - 16 Distinctions in benefits - 3 They will see the Buddha constantly abiding on Mount Gridhrakuta
- The role of Spirit helpers in an NDE 03
- Traherne, Thomas - Centuries of Meditations - It is not by going with the feet, but by journeys of the soul
- Trip to heaven
- Urantia Book - Paper 12 - The Universe of Universes - The Egg
- Urantia Book - Paper 42 - Energy, Mind and Matter - Spirit and energy recycling
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The story of Native American, Ahaktah
- William Drummond - This is that happy morn
- William Seabrook - White monk of Timbuctoo
- Wonder, Stevie - Visions
- Yassawi - 19 from HIKMET 72 & 73
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - As I came over Windy Gap
- Yeats, W B - Shadowy Waters - You come from Eden on flying feet
- Yeats, W B - The Wanderings of Oisin - Men’s hearts of old were drops of flame That from the saffron morning came