Heaven News #5 · April 2026 · Finding Signal in a Noisy World

Founded by Gloria Wendroff, 1931–2024

— Oneness, Heavenletter™ #1351  ·  Read this Heavenletter

Submitted by Normand Bourque, long-time Heavenletters supporter and researcher from Australia. Normand is about to publish a book on Heavenletters and Quantum Physics.

Editor's Note · Heaven Updates · Community Spotlight · Gloria's Memorial · Statistics · Support Heaven

Editor's Note

I think of what a wise person said about a mother giving birth for the first time. The child is desperate to come out and the mother is desperate to keep the child in. One yearns to enter a new life and the other is afraid of pain. A tug of war! Culture change is not much different from childbirth. We're attached to the old way of being and afraid of the new. And so we miss the opportunities that abound, because of attachment and fear.

Cultural change happens over long arcs. Right now we're in a tipping zone. People invested in the current culture and its institutions are desperately clinging to the old way of being. In empire culture, hierarchies, toxic competition, and dominator patterns are the norm. Those of us yearning for a new world are so busy rejecting the current reality that we fail to see the opportunities. We fail to offer prayers of gratitude for all that it took to get us here. In empire culture, religion and God were politicised. A mechanism to have more control over society.

When you seek the essence of any religion, you will find the same truth. Wars moved by religion are a poignant example of the dark side of empire culture. We've had too many wars. So how do we reduce the probability of war and increase the probability of peace? We co-evolve the culture to a new state. Co-evolution sounds like a big empty phrase, but to me it means cultivating a sense of centred connection to God. This inevitably moves us to our higher nature, purifies our animal nature and deepens our sense of harmony.

So how do we co-evolve the culture? My experience is that by developing our relationship with God we become harmonisers in the world. We become agents of cultural co-evolution. As a community of Heavenreaders and Godwriters we have a powerful opportunity. First to coalesce as a community, to weave a firmer community fabric, and then to become a lighthouse in a world shrouded in way too much darkness.

I know that sounds grand. A lighthouse! Cultural co-evolution! But I'm a farmer/coder/artist/carpenter/father on a mountain in South Africa who talks to God. Grand comes with the territory.

These past months have been a period of quiet building for me. The daily Heavenletters went silent for a stretch. The Heaven News newsletter went silent too. Sometimes the work underneath needs doing before the surface can reflect what's actually happening. I'm glad to tell you about some of what has been growing in the quiet.

Heaven Updates

Daily Heavenletters: Back Online

The daily email script broke in early March and I didn't catch it for several weeks. My apologies to those of you who missed your morning Heavenletter. The script is fixed, a manual batch was sent for the missed days, and the cron job is now running reliably at 5am EDT every morning. One of the best ways of supporting this work is by subscribing to the Daily Heavenletter.

The script breaking reminds me of the time Gloria and I did a road trip in a motorhome across Europe. One day, in Belgium, just after a man charged us 5 Euros to fill our water bottles, I was emptying out the porta potti tank at a pit stop for motorhomes. Gloria and I had a good laugh about paying for water and paying to get rid of our shit. While we were laughing, a dangerous thing to do while working with portable septic tanks, the cap fell off the tank and rolled into the drain. It happened in slow motion. It fell off and started rolling down towards the disposal area. Gloria screamed. I dropped the tank — fortunately it was empty at this point — and ran toward the rolling cap, only to watch it wobble and slot down perfectly into the drain. I stood there staring. Then turned back to see Gloria leaning against the motorhome in laughter. We sure had a good laugh. Sometimes life happens. And not always according to plan. What matters is that we continue onwards in good spirit!

A Donations CRM for Heavenletters

I built a simple system that pulls in all PayPal donations and email correspondence. For the first time I can see, at a glance, who has given, how much, and what we've talked about. This may sound like a small thing. For a project that has run for 20 years on volunteer energy and scattered contributions, it matters more than I can express. To those of you who tithe regularly and to those who gave once and may have wondered if your gift was noticed: it was. I see you.

Part of seeing you is being accountable to you. From now on, every donor will receive a periodic report on Heavenletters' income and expenses. Not because anyone asked, but because transparency is how trust grows. If you're putting your money into something, you deserve to know where it goes.

I want to mention Osiearth from the Republic of Korea. He has been quietly and consistently tithing to Heavenletters for years, our most generous supporter. His donations have directly funded the server costs and the AI tools I used to build the CRM, clean the database, and create the search engine described below. He also translates Heavenletters into Korean and posts them on our forum. Rosie Jackson, who you'll meet in the Community Spotlight below, knows Osiearth from a seminar she gave in The Republic of Korea years ago.

The Invisible Foundation: Data Integrity

Heavenletters has been running on a database that dates back to the original Drupal website. Nearly 30,000 nodes: 6,277 unique English Heavenletters, plus translations in 10+ languages. Over the years, data corruption crept in. Translations linked to the wrong Heavenletter. Duplicate entries. Italian and German text mislabelled as English. Working copies that were never cleaned up.

I've been auditing and fixing all of it. Thirty-seven translation mismatches. One hundred and fifty-nine duplicate groups. Twelve cross-locale orphans. Five English Heavenletters that somehow went missing while their translations survived.

This is the least glamorous work. Nobody will ever see it. But it's the foundation everything else rests on. A search engine returns garbage if the data underneath is corrupted. Translations confuse readers when they're linked to the wrong source. The new website needs clean data to work at all. Here's the full report.

Heavenletters Search Engine

Speaking of search. All 6,620 English Heavenletters are now indexed in a purpose-built search engine. Three modes: semantic search (search by meaning), keyword search (search by exact text), and a hybrid that combines both. The semantic search uses vector embeddings, which means you can search for a feeling or a theme and find Heavenletters that speak to it, even if they don't use the same words.

There's also an analysis endpoint. You ask a question, the engine retrieves the most relevant Heavenletters, and an AI synthesises an answer drawn from the corpus. This is the seed of the "chat to Heavenletters" feature I mentioned in the first email. It's early, but the signal is there.

When the new website launches, this search engine will power the Heavenletters search page and eventually a conversational interface. The source code is open and available at github.com/Heavenletters/heaven-search.

Searching the Heavenletters corpus for "grieving and death"

Here are two searches I ran recently:

I searched for "Hope for a Bright Future" and got back Heavenletter #876, You Are an Instrument of God's Love:

— You Are an Instrument of God's Love, Heavenletter #876

I searched for "From Darkness to Light" and got back Heavenletter #557, Into the Light:

— Into the Light, Heavenletter #557

Both found by meaning, not by keyword match. The engine understood the feeling behind the search. hese results from the smallest open source free model available. The moment we increase the size of the model, our search results improve. In other words, this can only get better!

Heaven News Archive

All previous newsletters are now archived and available online at mailer.heavenletters.org/archive. If you joined recently and missed the earlier editions, here's what's there:

1. Heavenletters 2.0 Launch — the first email after Gloria's passing, the vision for what comes next
2. Being a Lighthouse Together — continuing the 2.0 vision, community building
3. Heaven News #3 — Godwriting workshops, volunteer spotlights, website progress, and the first community statistics
4. Heaven News #4 (Christmas Edition) — a contemplative letter on Dharma, purpose, and community as a field of harmony

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Community Spotlight: Rosie Jackson

Some connections arrive exactly when they're needed. Rosie Jackson is an artist living on a mountain in the Pyrenees, a painter, musician, and channeler whose work moves in the territory where art meets the divine.

Rosie knew Gloria. They Zoomed together a couple of times, and Rosie told her she would support getting her material out into the world. In December she wrote to me out of the blue with a painting that gave me tingles.

Her painting "A Meeting of the Stars" (2019) is a visual meditation on Heavenletter #1646, a letter about God's laughter spilling roses and stars into existence. When Rosie sent it to me, she also shared a dream: a renovated lighthouse with spiral stairs, each level holding a library of all the Heavenletters on wooden tablets that pull out like lecterns. A centre for spiritual development in a high, rocky, windy place with beautiful views.

"A Meeting of the Stars" (2019) — Rosie Jackson. Visual meditation on Heavenletter #1646.

I live on a mountain. I'm a carpenter. I told her I'd build the lighthouse.

She wrote back: "BUILD THE LIGHTHOUSE AND I WILL SEND THE PAINTING."

Her newest work, "The Seamless Garment" (2026), is a 90×40cm depiction of a figure on a spiritual journey, transforming with every step, surrounded by Apsara celestial beings, the temples of Angkor Wat, the Khmer symbol for Om, and galactic observers. I showed it to Stella, a new member of our community, and she said she could view it for a long time. "It's like a journey."

Rosie has been painting in a shed on that mountain for years, mostly unseen. And yet the work carries a signal that's unmistakable. When someone sees it, they know. Rosie's work is about to expand its reach!

See Rosie's work at rosiejackson.de and on Instagram.

Community Spotlight is open for submissions. Are you doing something meaningful inspired by Heavenletters? Art, music, writing, community work, acts of kindness, we'd love to share it with the world. Hit reply and tell us about it.

Gloria's Memorial Page

In an earlier Heaven News I mentioned that we're building a memorial page for Gloria. Several of you have written in with beautiful tributes. I want to share one that stopped me in my tracks, from Swami Shankarananda of the Centre for Spiritual Awakening in Verulam, South Africa, who hosted Gloria at his ashram for an evening:

— Swami Shankarananda

Centre for Spiritual Awakening, Verulam, South Africa
Since then Swami has founded ashrams in India and Sri Lanka.

The memorial page will be live before the next Heaven News. If you'd like to contribute a message, a memory, or a tribute to Gloria, please hit reply. We welcome everything, a few sentences or a few pages.

Statistics

In the 16 days between March 29 and April 14, Heavenletters welcomed 70,900 visitors who made 101,000 visits and viewed 107,000 pages. We hit the free tier limit on our analytics at 100K and tracking paused. A good problem to have.

What makes me smile is the reach. In those 16 days, Heavenletters was read in 123 countries. Singapore leads with 42,200 visitors, followed by the United States, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Germany, Japan, China, India, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom rounding out the top ten. Words received by Gloria over two decades ago, still travelling.

If you're reading this from Singapore, and statistically many of you are, I'd love to hear from you. How did you find Heavenletters? Hit reply.

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Closing Heavenletter

— Bursting the Bounds of the World, Heavenletter #4278  ·  Read this Heavenletter

Courtesy of the new Heavenletters™ Search Engine!

I'm grateful that you read this far. The quiet months were not empty months. The foundation is being laid for something that will serve this community and Gloria's legacy for decades to come. I can see the road ahead and I hold a firm conviction that we have what it takes to walk this path together.

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