The shared center — held across the tradition
The kingdom of heaven is a physical place and you get there in a craft.
The group read the gospels as a literal account of visitors: the Next Level is a real civilisation, its members have bodies, and the resurrection was a transfer. This is why the teaching has no mysticism in it at all — it is closer to an emigration procedure than to a devotion.
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The body is a vehicle. You are the deposit inside it.
A member's body was spoken of as a car, a suit, a container issued for the duration of the class. Gender, hunger and family feeling belonged to the vehicle, not to the student, and the whole discipline was aimed at loosening the identification between the two.
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