Story of the Warrior Who Wanted to Go to Heaven

By Luis Molinar
July 2002

There was once a warrior living life in hell as best as he could. One day the Angel of Death came to him while he slept. The Angel in all her beauty and grace, stood in the warrior’s dream with her arms outstretched and said she was taking him to heaven, the young warrior was so happy and he replied, “Oh, that’s wonderful, I so want to go to heaven.”

Then she asked him, “Are sure you want to go to heaven?” The warrior assured her that he was not only willing, but had been anxiously waiting this moment. The Angel then asked him, “Are you sure you are ready to go to heaven?” He said, “Why of course, I’ll do anything to live in heaven.”

 She started to tear each limb from his body, one by one. First, she removed the warrior’s left arm and then his right, each time asking him, “Are you sure you want to go to heaven?” He kept replying, “Oh yes, please take me home.”

 After she had taken both arms and legs and was working on his ears, his mind realized what was happening. He was shocked with grief, and astonished and surprised. Hhow could this Angel, this ultimate teacher, be doing this to him? This, he believed, was not the way to heaven. 

His mind totally judged the dismembering. When he began feeling the pain, he started to voice his protest, “But… but you said you were taking me to heaven. This is not heaven. This hurts my body.” The Angel replied, “Letting go of old limited beliefs, especially of what you think you are, is painful and does hurt the mind.” She then tore his nose off. He said with tears in his eyes, “But you said ‘heaven.’ This is not anything I thought heaven would be… it is so different. You lied to me… I trusted you, this is not at all what I thought it would be.”

“To the mind living in fear and resistance, it never is.” The Angel replied.