Heaven | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Heaven


00:01:18 1 Etymology
00:03:10 2 Ancient Near East
00:03:19 2.1 Mesopotamia
00:05:29 2.2 Canaanites and Phoenicians
00:05:59 2.3 Hurrians and Hittites
00:06:31 3 Abrahamic religions
00:06:41 3.1 Hebrew Bible
00:10:24 3.2 Second Temple Judaism
00:11:42 3.3 New Testament and early Christianity
00:16:43 3.4 Rabbinical Judaism
00:18:56 3.4.1 Kabbalah Jewish mysticism
00:20:56 3.5 Islam
00:23:06 3.5.1 Ahmadiyya
00:24:31 3.6 Bahá'í Faith
00:26:39 4 Chinese religions
00:29:28 5 Indic religions
00:29:37 5.1 Buddhism
00:31:30 5.1.1 According to Anguttara Nikaya
00:35:46 5.1.2 Tibetan Buddhism
00:36:19 5.2 Hinduism
00:38:28 5.3 Jainism
00:39:32 5.4 Sikh Religion
00:40:06 6 Mesoamerican religions
00:40:44 7 Polynesia
00:41:21 7.1 Māori
00:42:31 7.2 Paumotu, Tuamotus
00:43:18 8 Theosophy
00:44:14 9 Criticism of the belief in heaven
00:45:29 10 Neuroscience
00:46:47 11 Postmodern views
00:47:00 12 Representations in arts
00:47:24 13 See also



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SUMMARY
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Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, or transcendent place where beings such as gods, angels, spirits, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or live. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to earth or incarnate, and earthly beings can ascend to heaven in the afterlife, or in exceptional cases enter heaven alive.
Heaven is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to hell or the Underworld or the "low places", and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply the will of God. Some believe in the possibility of a heaven on Earth in a World to Come.
Another belief is in an axis mundi or world tree which connects the heavens, the terrestrial world, and the underworld. In Indian religions, heaven is considered as Svarga loka, and the soul is again subjected to rebirth in different living forms according to its karma. This cycle can be broken after a soul achieves Moksha or Nirvana. Any place of existence, either of humans, souls or deities, outside the tangible world (heaven, hell, or other) is referred to as otherworld.