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You Are What You Think About It’s sometimes said that ‘you are what you eat’. There is some truth in this but it is more true to say that you become what you concentrate on. People identify with their egos. When the ego is attacked, for example when they are criticised, they feel an emotional pain. This often results in them replaying the events over and over in their mind, as replaying the event will have a different result. Well, sometimes it does have a different result as in the imagination there can be any result you want. You can come back with the ultimate retort or perform miracles. In your dreams, as they say. I've mentioned before (‘Linear Time and Heaven and Hell’) that in this life there are limits to our fantasies. We are brought back to earth by our bodies and simply the fact that we have to eat and go to the toilet means that we have to have some relationship with this world. After death there are no such limitations and we go to where our fantasies take us. Thus we go to where we concentrate on and we become what we concentrate on. Collectively we create worlds that we then live in. Jesus said ‘My father’s house has many mansions’. These mansions are the worlds we create. We were created in ‘His image’, and in the same way as God created this world, we create parallel worlds. Even in this life, our inner world is molded by what we concentrate on. Those who concentrate on the ugly and violent aspects of life create an inner world that is made up of ugliness and violence. Those who concentrate on what is beautiful and compassionate create a corresponding inner world. After death each person goes to the world with others of a similar temperament. This is their heaven or hell.