How would you feel if I told you that you are already in hell?
If you look up the etymology of the world hell you're going to see things like "underworld", concealed, hidden ect....in its original context the word seems to be less about describing a mythological prison where "god" puts all the bad people, and more in reference to the microcosm and how man perceives himself.
Of course if religious texts read like text books they wouldn't have survived as long as they have, the way certain things were written were supposed to be coded and contemplated upon, not taken at face value.
Earth is hell...earth is the "underworld", if the sky/stars/cosmos are "the heavens", then from a physical perspective, we are "below" that and see ourselves as separate from it. This sense of separation from "GOD" or whatever term you want to use causes suffering, it's what causes people to lack empathy with one another, has nothing to do with peoples selective morality or punishment, it's the self induced isolation from the rest of the "outside" world the creates disharmony in mans mind, body and it's civilizations.
I beg to differ. Some people have experienced hell. If u don't believe me there are plenty of people who have near death experiences that have had heavenly or hellish experience u can call then liars but u just don't want to hear the truthm
Since you are speaking on some shyt that people may not agree with, believe in or have experience with, so i'll say to
you (if not, i'm not really asking for your input
) that understand that even your waking perspective as you read this is just a state of mind, no different than when you are "out" of body so to speak.
If you should choose to feel guilty for past events, in the NOW, you will experience the same. The only real difference between this beta/waking state of mind is that as the brain waves decrease the time buffer/barrier between what you think and what you experience begins to disappear all together.
People projecting, having NDE's or even going through an actual death experience are going to be operating within states of mind that have no buffer between thoughts and experience, if you cross those boundaries of mind, (temporarily or permanently) with fear and hatred and general ugliness in your heart you will have no choice but to experience that until you decide to let it go.
Being that you would be perceiving outside of time, and probably have had RELIGION drill a particular concept of HELL into your head, you will get what you're expecting and would really have no concept of how long it would be taking place in linear time. All being conditioned from early childhood to fear hell does is make you create a hell to fear, which isn't an accident.
I always reference this scene in conversations like this, it's silly but rings true in my experience. Remove the dimensional buffer between thought and matter and this is the kind of shyt that you get...put your own personal spin on it, and you have the metaphysical "hell" in a nutshell.
You ever seen a drug addict...a real drug addict hell bent on killing themselves and suffering the entire time doing it? The drug addiction in "real" time may look like a different monster once you cross that threshold, doesn't make it any less of a hell.