I kinda hope that Emanuel Swedenborg was right in his description of heaven, hell, and the world of spirits. After you die, you will be attracted to communities of like-minded people. It’s a karmic idea: your own thoughts and feelings determine which group you will be attracted to - either those who are selfish or those who are open to love.
“Swedenborg describes creation as made up of two separate and yet coexisting ‘worlds’: the natural world and the spiritual world. The natural world includes everything you see around you—the grass, the sky, houses, other people, your own body, and so on. The spiritual world consists of the unseen realities that we do not fully encounter until after death: heaven, hell, and the world of spirits in between.
In the spiritual world, people have bodies, live in houses, enjoy community life, and are surrounded by landscapes are like those of Earth, with familiar plants and animals. However, things work very differently in spiritual reality. Everything there is vivid and much more alive. What we see responds to what we are thinking. We always have all the time we need. Particular individuals are only as near or as far away as our thoughts of them, and thinking of a person or place can actually bring us there.
In short, while the spiritual world might not seem very different from ours at first, Swedenborg describes a realm where the inner state of individuals are reflected in their surroundings and where all life originates from, and is sustained by, the love and wisdom of the Lord.” Source: Spiritual World (Afterlife).
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