• members of the Lingbao School of Taoism believed their spirits would be refined in heaven after death and then reincarnated on Earth?
• Burgundian manuscript illuminator and painter Simon Marmion created many images of Heaven and Hell (detail pictured)?

Facts on topics related to Heaven

Afterlife

• in Mesoamerican folklore, it is believed that a dog (mythical dog pictured) carries the newly deceased across a body of water into the afterlife?

God

• Emperor Frederick II ran an experiment that involved raising infants in isolation to discover what language God spoke?
• KDMN (now KSKE) and its Radio Colorado sister stations became the target of prank calls in 2003 when the film Bruce Almighty displayed the station group's phone number as God's?
• according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt?
• former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God?
• the Church of England (Archbishop of Canterbury pictured) launched a Prayer for the Current Financial Situation that calls God to be a "a tower of strength amidst the shifting sands" of the global economic turmoil?
• the world's tallest statue of Hindu God Lord Shiva (pictured) is located in Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India?
• the name teonanácatl, referring to a sacred mushroom of the Aztecs, translates to "the flesh of God"?
• the name of the Indo-European thunder god has been reconstructed by etymologists as *Perk^wunos?
• the variant of the wedding cord known as God’s knot or cord-of-three-strands is used as a substitute for unity candles?

Mysticism

• an entire regiment of the Mexican Army was dispatched to expel Mexican folk healer and mystic Teresa Urrea from the country?
• the Sunburst community, a Southern California commune combining elements of mysticism, Christianity and Hopi rituals, was once one of the largest shippers of organic products in the U.S.?
• the biography Van Morrison: No Surrender discusses the musician's spiritual exploration of Gestalt therapy, Jehovah's Witnesses, mysticism, Rosicrucianism, and Scientology?
• the painting Nativity at Night (pictured) by Geertgen tot Sint Jans was influenced by a vision of the mystic Saint Bridget of Sweden?

Christian eschatology

• Therefore Repent! is a 2008 graphic novel set in a post-Rapture world where fundamentalist Christian eschatology has come true?