it’s a real place, many examples and witnesses to the rise of Jesus into heaven. Can you get to heaven on a spaceship…no. like earth, i come to think heaven has its own rules, one your soul is not your body, the only person to go to heaven with a body is jesus and mary,
but anyone who has gone to the door of heaven has died. Maybe god created heaven in a phased universe, as ensitin predicted, our rules and physical properties can’t cross over.
god created earth and the universe, I do know that we can’t go to heaven in our form, at least not a normal person. we can’t see angels but angels are all around us, is this because we can’t see them because they are not on our plain who knows, that is the great mystery of death and you must accept that we won’t know until one day we pass over.
from what i can tell, the other side sees all that goes on here, angels can interact with us (maybe because god created special rules for them) and that our soul is a energy but still us when we cross over, we know who we are, but dont have the same feelings eg no pain, no sorrow.
i hope that helps, its my thinking nothing more