Andrea Mathews - Inhabiting Heaven Now: The Answer to Every Moral Dilemma Ever Posed

Andrea Mathews writes eloquently in her new book Inhabiting Heaven NOW about how we can de-code some of the morals that have been imposed on us throughout history. Spiritual growth is a natural yearning, and this book shows us that we can find our own spiritual strength within, a strength we can call on and rely on no matter what dilemmas come our way. A compelling, and worthwhile read!

Lissa Coffey, author: Whats Your Dharma? Discover the Vedic Way to Your Lifes Purpose

If you are ready to rid yourself of the burdens imposed by the morals and belief structures you inherited from birth, and ditch the fear and hesitation that holds you back, Inhabiting Heaven NOW is your booka wonderful template for greater joy and fulfillment.

Larry Dossey, MD, Author: REINVENTING MEDICINE and THE POWER OF PREMONITIONS

Andrea Mathews hits the crux of where every human being on the planet must go if their world and the world is to change. Its meaning is crucial to the journey of the soul and the catalyst for becoming sacred spiritual human activists for change.

Simran Singh, Publisher of Award Winning 11:11 Magazine & Syndicated 11:11 Talk Radio Host

Inhabiting Heaven NOW is a thought-provoking book that had me nodding my head and realizing some of my own unconscious habits. Readers will find true freedom in these pages as they uncover and debunk some closely held unconscious beliefs, codes and ways of being. Mathews offers us a new liberating code to live byone that throws judgment out the window and offers us a vision for embracing our personal power. Her insights into the Bible, evil, and the nature of power are edifying and offer much to think abouta great book club pick, since it is ripe for discussions.

Lisa Tener, award winning book coach, www.lisatener.com

Andrea Mathewss Inhabiting Heaven Now will come to many as a gift. For those who are trapped in feelings of guilt, ought and shouldin other words, for most of usInhabiting Heaven Now shows a way out of the cul de sac that is our unquenchable moral code.

Most of us live our lives circumscribed by rules: we should not be selfish, we should not sleep around, we should not curse or spit or smoke or dance naked in the square. And because we carry these codes, given us by our parents or religions or society, we suffer. We are not worthy, we are not good enough, unless we ______, well, fill in the blank.

And so we live lives of quiet desperation, caught forever between I am worthy and I am not good enough.

What Andrea shows, in very readable prose, is that the problem is not us, its in our assumption that there is a wrong and a right, that there is a right way to be, if only. The problem is not us, its in the very split in how we think: good and evil, right and wrong.

What if, just what if, we are worthy because we are here, she asks? What if our worthiness does not depend on following or not following the rules? What if, like our pet cat or dog, we are loved and considered beautiful and worthy, because we are, we just are.

It is the mystics journey to which she beckons, the journey within, that is neither good nor evil but beyond that very split. It is to a new kind of life, a new level of living, that she invites and teaches, a level that is large enough to welcome both good and evil, and to be strong enough to naturally tap into that which enhances life, ours and others.

It is to that place inside that, without the cold and lifeless split that is our defined right and wrong, can guide us to do that which is true for us, for others and for the world.

Robert Forman, author of Enlightenment Aint What Its Cracked Up To Be

Inhabiting Heaven Now is a feast for heart, mind, and soul. It shows Andrea Mathews signature understanding of how our fears limit our vision and our lives. Her arguments for a more compassionate worlda way to inhabit heaven while still on Earthare stimulating and compelling. This is a book to read, to reread, to savor and to cherish.

Carol Marleigh Kline, author of Streetwise Spirituality: 28 Days to Inner Fitness and Everyday Enlightenment

First published by O-Books, 2013
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Text copyright: Andrea Mathews 2012

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Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, By The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

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We formulated our morals based on fear. Fear that the gods would not provide the supplies and safety we needed if we didnt conform to what we suspected they demanded of us; fear of punitive responses from both the supernatural and the natural world; fear that we might otherwise be considered to be bad people; fear of mystery; fear of death; fear of some kind of retribution after death; fear of fear. And our larger systemsour churches, corporations and governmentsneed for us to maintain our individual and collective fears because they fear that otherwise there will be anarchyin other words they (i.e., we) will no longer be able suffer the illusion that they control us.

Having said that, we must be clear that this book is not meant to promote anarchy. Neither is it meant to turn loose the wild wolves of passion upon the stanchions of tradition. Nor is it meant to encourage our seemingly ever-increasing devolution into the abyss of immorality. Rather this book is meant to assist us in looking beyond morality for spirituality.

Most of us are ill-informed about the tenets of the dogma, creed or philosophy to which we ascribe. However, we do assert a certain knowledge about what is good and what is bad. But we didnt get that knowledge from our dogma, creed or philosophythat came later. We originally got it from our upbringing in our families-of-origin and our particular culture. Though we tend to think of these mores as morals, they are definitely relative to the family and culture from which we hail. They are programmed into our psyches based on the seriousness of the consequences listed or received for not following them. For many of us, attachment to these mores was the same as attachment to our families-of-origin, ergo our very survival seemed to be hanging in the balance. In other words, we were programmed by fear to respond to these mores as if they were morals. This book will call these mores, turned morals,