Stephen Hawkings is a brilliant scientist but scientists are formidably close-minded whilst presuming that they are the greatest intellects in existence. It is an oxymoron to be sure. Scientists are run by the mental field and ego. Not the ego that cocaine dependent, sexually warped Freud defined, erronously, for the world in the early 20th century. Ego is allowing the mind to control one's physical journey which causes that person to believe that only the physical exists. Yes, we live in the 3rd dimension, which is a physical/material plane, but we are much more than a mind. Heaven, as religion describes it, does not exist. Where our current personality ends up post-mortem is dependent upon the individual's thoughts and actions in this world. Everything is energy and all of it vibrates at varying levels. Murder is a very low vibration. Even contemplating murder causes one to vibrate at a low, dense level. Negative emotions: anger, remorse, hatred, intolerance, indifference, attachment to belief systems; fear, envy, judgment (watch out scientists, Christians and Muslims!), self-condemnation, regret, you get the picture... cause one to vibrate very low. We exist in only one of myriad dimensions. When we die our spirit goes to the dimension which vibrates at the same level that we do at the time of our death. There is no heavenly assessment of our life on the other side. We examine our own lives and how each thought, word and action affected those around us .... then we experience the pain or joy that we produced in them through our thoughts and actions. It is simple. Anyway, live a life of basic courtesy without hidden agenda and judgment; treat the planet, yourself and all living things with dignity and respect; live as neutrally as possible and you will exist at a higher level of vibration which will correlate to a matching dimension. Most important die in a neural state for intense emotion causes the vibratory field to become denser. If this is deemed "heaven" then so be it.
Those who harm others and care nothing for other life forms; those who feel entitled (to everything!) and practise self-indulgence in food and environment; those who are self-serving and are willing to sacrifice others to meet their needs; those who are deceitful and harm others' because of it; those who choose to live in violence and create mayhem for entertainment go to the dimensions that are populated with those of their ilk. Call this hell if you wish but it is inaccurate. For those humans dedicated to contributing forms of darkness to the Universal Consciousness and the 3rd dimension, hellish environment is a form of heaven to them. We determine what occurs to our surviving personality by how we conduct ourselves here on Earth, the physical plane. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, ergo, the personality cannot be destroyed so it must continue on in an appropriate dimension. There is no divine reward or punishment. Religions teach this in order to prevent Enlightenment in the people but the truth is that the Divine Presence lives within each and every one of us. This Divinity is our Inner Light and is allowed to shine and affect our world according, again, to our personal vibration. The lower and denser we vibrate the darker/denser the effect we have upon our world and the less visible the Inner Light. Through self-examination and dedication to allowing our Inner Divine to radiate into our world alters it for the better. We are here to become Enlightened but I will not go into Higher Wisdom here. Suffice to say that anyone can raise their vibrations and access this Wisdom on their own. There is no religion that teaches this. All spiritual wisdom sources from this Divine Core. There is no heaven; there is no hell; there are thousands of dimensions to accomodate the myriad levels of human vibration. You go to what you are when you die. That is that! Amen.