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This was an amazing write up. One that certainly warrants are response of some depth. It should be noted that my reponse will be limited to my readings / knowledge from over the years, and I look forward to some back and forth. Also, you should check out /r/psychonaut as well for some great discussion. Your questions are a bit imposing in their gravity, but I'll try my best to answer them. That being said, let's get started, shall we?

The problem you have stumbled upon is one of the largest issues with the standard model of what "heaven", "God", and "you" are. It is intimated that there is a seperation between these places and beings. This paradox that you have stumbled upon shines a light upon the results as improper. If the answer you find is not correct, that means you either need to change the question, subjectively view your findings, or re-examine the elements of your quesiton. In this case, we are going to do the later.

It is important to note at this point that there is a difference between conciousness and the ego. The ego is the voice inside your head you hear all the time, the fear you feel in a fight, the satisfaction from winning an argument, and has gone out of it's way to prove that it is you. A good book about this topic can be found here and is highly recommended. This acknowledgement of the seperation between your being and your ego is a concept that is very important, and requires a great deal of attention. This is a heavier book, and should only be read when full dedication can be given to the text.

Alan Watts has a significant body of work on the Ego, conciousness, and other illusions of our existance. It would also be a great help to you.

Honestly, I am having issues with putting these thoughts into words. Know that anything and everything you have experienced in your life could only happen because of your physical form. Everything you have ever seen, smelled, touched, heard, or tasted has all been happening in a pitch black container within your own head. This experience of life is temporary, and there is only the now.

This feels like it is a bit scatter brained, and for that I apologize. Unfortunately, you can never be told what it all means, you can merely understand from within. By having someone explain things like this to you, a relationship is developed of teacher and student, intimating a better knowledge of one over another.

Life is a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. We are the Universe experiencing itself subjectively. On a more scientific level, we exist within an illusion.

Again, I apologize for being unable to impart onto you a full and complete thought process. Please pursue these thoughts, keep pushing for new concepts and ideas. If you look into fractals, it may connect a few different concepts together for you.

Thank you for getting my mind to focus on these topics this morning. The day just became infinitely more interesting.

Remember, perception is based on perspective.

This book is an excellent introduction to contemporary metaphysics. It gives you enough coverage of the history (i.e. the Greeks) and where metaphysics stands in contemporary literature. Highly recommend.

http://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0199657122/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452885902&sr=1-8&keywords=introduction+to+metaphysics

God and causality are lively subjects in contemporary academic philosophy. Brian Davies' book An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion is an excellent overview of recent work on God and His nature. If you had posted something on, say, the Gale-Pruss cosmological argument, or questions you had after reading Aquinas on Being and Essence or The One and the Many, it would have been fine, but moral theology, biblical prophecy, and demonology are a bit far afield for this subreddit.

I can't believe no one has discussed the observer effect in quantum physics yet! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

Let's see if I can give a brief description without screwing it up too badly. Depending on the type of test you perform, you can make light photons act like a wave OR a particle. They have gone on to perform experiments where they make 'weak' measurements on the light before you randomly choose which test to do, and those weak measurements show that the light knows what type of test you are doing before you do the test. This means that your test's interaction with the light actually sent information back in time. Since all matter fundamentally acts the same as light (as a wave 'function' that collapses when measured), and since all matter is entangled since the big bang, somehow the order of matter of the whole universe was determined at the beginning of the universe by some future observer. This is all 'hypothetical' of course.

If you're interested I'd highly recommend this book http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Enigma-Physics-Encounters-Consciousness/dp/0199753814

You may dig Occult America, though the author doesn't really explore deeply into any one subject. More of a surface-level overview, but it gives you a sense of what's evolved in esoteric and occult study/practices over the last 200+ years (though he doesn't get into secret societies).

http://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Peter-van-Inwagen/dp/0813343569

This is the textbook we're using for my Metaphysics class. It's great for metaphysical material, but incredibly dense and difficult to read.

https://www.amazon.ca/Metaphysics-Anthology-Jaegwon-Kim/dp/1444331027

Block theory is the most popular, and leaves the persistence of things through time not a problem. It also meshes the best with general relativistic spacetime where there is no universal present. Two events can be (correctly) said to occur at the same or different times based on the observer's frame of reference. Because of this, any dynamic or presentist view is unlikely and hard to argue for. If you want to posit a growing block view you still have the problem of being forced to localize the present to your frame and say that everything else is (actually) unreal outside of your lightcone. It gets messy.

The least messy theory is the block view, even if it doesn't "seem" intuitively correct. We want so badly for there to be a present, but any kind of present is difficult to defend in relativistic spacetime. You have to start making bizarre concessions.

It also solves why things persist through time, because they are not only persisting through time, but through spacetime. So their spatiotemporal relation to other events is preserved in the block. Otherwise there is, as you point out, a difficulty in how an object persists in a certain area through time. What else would anchor its existence besides the block?


Read this for more info: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Space-Edition-Barry-Dainton/dp/0773537473
It tackles just about everything on the subject.