The loneliness of the path.

In a way, this will be a warning, and an admonishment against adopting the Heaven Path philosophy.

As with so many courses of action that fall under the heading of 'taking the road less traveled,' traveling ones Heaven Path will frequently be a lonely trip.

The analogy holds together in this way.

If you walk on main street you will be surounded by other travelers, and the opportunity for companionship will come often, but if you walk on a back road you will seldom find company.

In the case of the Heaven Path, you will still often travel on main street and often be surrounded by other people, but you may find that opportunities for companionship are more consistent with traveling the back road because you will likely be the only person around you that is on the road you are on. Your path takes up the same physical space as the path of the others, but they are nevertheless traveling a very different road.

This will first be noticable when you give up certainty. Giving up certainty will make you a much less outwardly vocal person just because you will begin to recognize the inherent falsity of so much that is said. You will be ever tempted to try to shake those around you out of their own false certainty, and this will not be popular with them. Most people desparately need their certainty, false or not, to keep themselves going.

Then you will recognize the error of trying to wake other people up, but as the crowd closes back in you will find that their company no longer satisfies you.

You will seek others who have given up their certainty, but then you will find that most of them are merely cynical,and assume that all positions are simply false rather than limited in the scope of the aplicability of their truthfulness. They are no longer seeking their own fulfillment, because they no longer believe that ther is such a thing.

But if you are aware and receptive and persistent, you may find that there are a very small number of people who have either explicitly or implicitly adopted the Heaven Path, and whose Heaven Paths may run parallel with yours. And these travelers will also be seeking you.

This is the nature of travel on the Heaven Path.

Consider yourself warned.