For generations, the concept of the afterlife has been painted in broad, often binary strokes: a final judgement separating the utterly pure from the eternally condemned. Heaven has been imagined as a static reward—a perfect, unchanging eternal repose. Yet, a compelling body of esoteric philosophy and contemporary afterlife research suggests a reality far more nuanced, … Continue reading The Celestial Alembic: Distilling the Soul Across the Layers of Heaven