PLAYTHINGS OF THE GODS
The above diagram is the Catholic schematic model for its "path to heaven". The vertical line representsthe path and the semicircle to the right at the top represents the end of the path. The "X" is a symbolused for a gate. Since there is only one gate in the model, this is a path to some location on the right(good) side of the Astral Plane. So, this is a psychic path. It is not Spiritual. To reach the Spiritualrealm you need to go thru at least two more gates - to the Causal and then to the Mental-Etheric Plane.After that you must cross a barrier (which usually requires a competent guide) to get into the Spiritualzone. So, there is nothing great about this path. Once you die you must go to some Astral planebecause there is no other place you can go to [unless you are Spiritually advanced and can get above theAstral Plane somewhere]. Even dead people who are earthbound running around graveyards or hauntinghouses are technically on the first Astral sub plane. So getting to "somewhere" on the Astral Plane isautomatic for most people even if the have no type of religious training at all.
The Astral Plane contains about 100 sub planes and these sub planes also have sub planes. These aresometimes called "groves". When you spend your life in some belief system which conditions you tobelieve that "heaven is like this" the force of the group imagination creates such a place somewhere onthe Astral Plane. When you die you go there and your desires are fulfilled. All garden variety religionshave such a place on the Astral Plane. The concept of "groves" or compartments means that they nevermeet each other. Baptists would gather and believe that "they made it to heaven" but the "otherreligions" must have been false and those people must be burning in hell because they are not there withthem. But the other groups are there, in their own little "grove" and they feel the same way - that they"made it" and the others did not. Since you can instantly create your desires with imagination on thisplane, most souls are convinced that they are happily in heaven forever. Eventually, the time comeswhen their "heavenly buddies" can't find them. This is because they have reincarnated and must now