"Heaven" and "paradise" are words use to describe an imaginary place or state of blissful tranquility. Do you point upward or skyward when pertaining to heaven? If you do, then you are actually pointing at the direction or infinity of space. And you would have been pointing to the opposite direction if you travel around to the other side of our spherical globe.
In some religions, "heaven" and "paradise" are supposedly places where one's soul will transcend upon after death. Absurdly, we often see commercial advertisements soliciting consumers to avail of their "heavenly" and "paradise" products or services as if unwittingly or subliminally teasing consumers to "die now so that one may avail".
Let's ponder a bit on astronomy. The "stars" one is supposedly "seeing" or "pointing at" the skyline may no longer exist if based on our 'time" or "perspective of reality". Light travels at the speed of around 386,000 miles per second, since these stars are supposedly located so far away from our planet earth, it may take hundreds of thousands or even millions of light years (the distance that light travels in space in one year time) for any light emitted by these stars to reach us, by which time you actually "see" the light here on our planet earth, the star could have already collapsed into a nova or black hole or who knows what? What one claimed to have seen as "stars" are actually the light rays emitted when the "stars" were still existing. If you saw the light emitted, you may not see anymore of the star within the short span of your physical life.
With vast distances or physical spaces within "reality", it may take more than a mind's current lifetime to perceive any such events of "reality". Even as many such events may in fact composed "reality", the perception of some may not be possible within a mind's lifetime. From above premise, we can infer that "time" or "perception of reality" is a distinct trait of the mind than of "reality" itself. What is "present" at some far away place may be considered as "past" or "history" when "perceived" by us or as an "impending future" just before we "perceive" it. Note: It is our "perception" independently of an event, which seems to shuffle between being "history" or "future", not the event itself. Conversely, what is considered "present" for us could likewise be perceived as "history" or "impending future" by some far away places depending on whether they had already perceived or just about to perceive said event.
I see it but do you? The heavens and stars has been telling us all the while, "time" qualifies as a "perception of reality" rather than "reality" per se. The "present time" or "consciousness" that we are experiencing or claiming, represents nothing more than our mind's current perception of reality, while the "past" represents nothing more than events that our minds had already perceived and the "future" represents nothing more than events that are yet to be perceived by our minds. We can infer that by increasing the distances between physical spaces of different occurring events, we can actually dissect into multiple perceptions (past, present or future) an event in occurrence independently of the event or "reality", in effect proving that the element of "time" (being a perception of reality) can actually be segregated from "reality" per se. The reason that we don't readily recognized the above is, we were all perceiving a presupposed "reality" from within one common place - small planet earth, not to mention our "physique" being extremely small compared to the entire vast universe of available spaces where events may occur.
Parallax: Everyone who live or had lived, claims or claimed that their existence belong to the true "present reality". Your great grandparents claimed they lived in the real present, you also claimed that, and so will your still unborn offspring. Since "time" qualifies as a "perception of reality" than reality per se, and perception being an intangible trait of the mind, we can logically infer that "time" is an intangible element of the mind and if there are no minds to perceive time, "time" may not exist.
Can reality exist without time? Could this be the "heaven" that one longs for? The state of a reality without time may be of a metaphysical nature external of the physical world, ergo that state just before "you" or your mind were or was conceived into an internal physical world. Without a mind to perceive time, reality for you may simply be a state of potentiality. A potentiality which gave "you" qualities to perceive time and space. While outside the physical state or world, you never "sensed" how much time you "waited" before you "acquired" physical existence because, there can be no waiting if there is no mind to perceive time, even with the vast universe of occurring events within the internal physical state or world.
Parallax: In order to perceive, one must possess the capability of perception. In order to claim the presence of tangible and "physical" qualities of reality, one must acknowledge that intangible or "metaphysical" qualities of reality may correspondingly exist intangibly. The human mind readily perceives tangible and "physical" qualities of reality because it exudes a "physical" body with five physical sensory receptors to perceive that which is "physical", but "reality" encompasses more than any mind's limited perceptive capabilities. Inability to perceive that which is intangible and "metaphysical" doesn't make the unobservable lesser of any reality.
In summary we can logically say, "time" is an intangible "perception of reality" by our minds or "time" is an element of the mind rather than of reality. For "time" to be perceived, minds must be created by an external metaphysical state to perceive the internal physical world. "Reality" can exist independently of its "perception" or "time". "Reality" is all that ever was, is or will, including metaphysical qualities unobservable by and preceding the mind. Such metaphysical qualities may have potentiality to transcend an internal physical world in which the mind can perceive, the latter being a product of the former hence termed "internal world", while "external world" would consist of all potential metaphysical qualities comprising to form the internal world.