Heaven, Hell and the Magnetic Heart
- KYLIGHTS
- 5 days ago
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What if heaven and hell are not geographical places we potentially experience after death, but states we can choose to move through while we are alive? Human beings shift states constantly. In one moment we may feel calm, curious, and open to the world. In another we may feel anxious, ashamed, or afraid. The outer world might remain exactly the same in that moment, yet our experience of it can change dramatically depending on the emotional state we inhabit. In that sense, heaven and hell may not be distant realms at all. They may be modes of perception. Frequencies of experience. States we move through far more often than we realise. And the human body itself offers intriguing clues about how those states arise.
In modern physics, the deeper structure of reality is often described in terms of energy and fields. What we perceive as solid matter is, at the smallest scales, dynamic patterns of interaction within underlying energy fields. In other words, the universe is not static. It is rhythmic. Oscillating. Alive with motion. If that is true at the level of atoms and particles, it raises an intriguing possibility. Perhaps the states we move through as human beings are not only psychological. They may also reflect patterns of coherence and resonance within living systems. And the human heart offers one of the most fascinating places to explore that idea.
The Magnetic Heart
The human heart is not only a biological pump circulating blood through the body. It is also an electrical organ. With every beat, the heart generates measurable electrical activity that coordinates the body’s rhythms. Modern research into heart rate variability has shown that emotional states influence the patterns of this activity in fascinating ways. When a person experiences stress, anger or fear, heart rhythms tend to become irregular and erratic. When a person experiences appreciation, gratitude or compassion, those rhythms become smoother and more ordered. Heaven, hell and the magnetic heart may sound poetic but researchers often refer to this state as coherence because in simple terms, emotional states do influence the body’s internal signal. While even the structure of the heart carries an elegant design. The muscle fibres wrap around the chambers in a spiral pattern, creating a wringing motion with each contraction, like gently twisting a cloth to release water. Rhythm, motion and energy moving through a living spiral. A biological oscillator at the centre of the human body.
This image shows a toroidal field diagram used to illustrate the electromagnetic activity generated by the human heart. Researchers studying heart-brain interactions and physiological coherence, including those at the HeartMath Institute, often use torus-shaped flow diagrams to visualise circulating fields. In these diagrams energy moves outward from the centre, curves around, and returns inward in a continuous loop. The result is a donut-like vortex of circulating motion centred on the heart.
Without needing mysticism at all, we can already see that our internal state changes how the body functions and how we experience the world around us.
Ancient Visions of Living Energy
Thousands of years ago, the prophet Ezekiel described a vision unlike anything else in ancient writing. He spoke of radiant heavenly beings surrounded by motion and light. Of strange structures he called “wheels within wheels,” their rims filled with eyes, moving in every direction and shimmering with energy. For centuries readers have wondered what Ezekiel was trying to describe. Artists across the ages tried to capture the scene. Medieval manuscript painters illustrated fiery interlocking wheels, attempting to translate the description as literally as possible. While two hundred years ago, the visionary artist William Blake depicted a human figure suspended within a swirling vortex of radiant motion — almost as if standing inside a living field of circulating energy. Visually, the structure looks remarkably similar to the toroidal flow patterns modern scientists often use to illustrate circulating energy fields.
Perhaps Ezekiel’s vision was symbolic. Perhaps mystical. Perhaps something beyond modern categories altogether. But it raises an intriguing possibility. Ancient observers had no language for electromagnetic fields, biological oscillators, or coherent systems. When confronted with something luminous, powerful, and alive with motion, metaphor was their closest tool. A wheel within a wheel. A pattern of living motion. Perhaps those ancient witnesses were doing the only thing they could — describing living energy and consciousness with the limited vocabulary available to them.
When Fear Entered the Story
Across history, many religious traditions emphasised sin and the specific emotions of shame and fear with respect to divine judgment. In many cases these teachings were intended to guide behaviour and maintain social order. But there is an interesting paradox here. If a person spends their life resonating primarily with shame and fear, those emotional states create contraction within the body and mind. Stress increases. Perception narrows. Creativity fades. Whereas the divine is literally described in spiritual traditions as love, joy, creativity, and wholeness. How ironic then, at best, and insidious at worst, that fear-based alignment moves humans further away from that experience, rather than closer. This of course could all come down to simple mistranslations, as opposed to deliberate disempowerment, because even language reveals subtle clues about this truth. In Hebrew, the word often translated as “fear” of God, can also carry the meaning of awe or reverence. Not terror, but the overwhelming recognition of something vast.
Awe expands. Shame contracts. One opens the heart. The other closes it.
Heaven on Earth and The Angelic State
So, what if access to heaven is not granted by a gatekeeping institution, but accessed through internal alignment? When the body settles into coherence, perception shifts. Energy returns. Creativity increases. Relationships deepen. And the world feels spacious rather than threatening. When fear dominates, or the extremely corrosive emotion of shame, the same world can feel like hell. Not because reality itself has necessarily changed, but because the state of the observer has. Perhaps heaven and hell are less about geography therefore, and more about resonance. States of consciousness we move through as we live.
For centuries angels have been imagined as winged beings descending from the sky. But perhaps the deeper symbolism points toward something closer to home. What if an angelic presence is simply a human being whose thoughts, emotions, and actions are aligned with love, compassion, integrity, playfulness, gratitude… A coherent, fully-charged human being. A steady presence. Someone whose inner world is ordered around kindness and clarity, whose very presence brings calm, possibility and upliftment to those around them. A person whose powerful internal state generates coherence rather than chaos.
In this light, the ancient stories may carry a quiet and empowering invitation. Not merely to wait for angels to appear. But to choose to become one. If heaven is not somewhere we go, but something we tune into, then perhaps the real revolution humanity is moving toward is not political, but internal. A shift from fear to coherence. From shame to wholeness. From fragmentation to love. Because when that shift happens, perception changes. The same world begins to feel different. Not because reality itself transformed overnight, but because the state of the observer changed. And that realisation carries a powerful kind of sovereignty. The recognition that the emotional and spiritual states we inhabit are not reactions to the world around us. They are proactive choices about how to create it. The revelation that heaven was never somewhere else… but the truth that it has always been within.
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Image caption: ‘Ezekiel’s Wheels’ or ‘Ezekiel’s Vision of the Whirlwind’ by William Blake. Housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Public Domain.
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