I was raised to believe in Hell but throughout my life, and learning from my work, I came to a belief that there is no world beneath the earth where you burn for eternity. Even the most troubled soul does not end in a burning flame but through universal love is healed and rises as the Phoenix: To start a new journey.
Growing up in a catholic family, Hell was a fear that became part of my existence. I was told that if I misbehaved I would burn in Hell for eternity. The plan was to put fear into me so that I would not veer from my religion. The plan did not work for me, it just did not make sense. I had too many question. For instance, if you have no body how can you burn? What I came to realize is that Hell was a perception. Don’t get me wrong, there are many people who find peace through their religion. But for me there was too much negativity in that concept, so I had to believe God was loving, and forgiving. Earth is a place where we have to learn, and it is through our mistakes that we grow. If we were perfect we would not need to incarnate on Earth and our soul would stay in Heaven, as part of universal love. I have to believe that in our darkest hour we are still loved by God.
Through my life as a medium I started to understand the journey of the soul. Our soul has a contract to come to Earth, a divine plan. We have to learn chosen lessons and to graduate the class of life. What matters is that we find the empowerment of ourselves and stay selfless in order to help others. If we choose a negative existence we will create karma in this life or the afterlife. Even through difficult times we are loved by a higher power and are asked to grow spiritually. If we lose sight of our soul’s purpose and fall into material greed, fear, hate and anger we have not learned the lessons and through our misery we are in Hell.
When I asked Spirit to describe Heaven and Hell, I was told, Heaven is a dimension that is a level beyond the Earth plane where souls return after completing a task. It is a place of unconditional love even for the most troubled soul. There are different levels in this dimension depending on how you lived your life. I spoke to a mother whose son killed his girl friend then shot himself. Hell for him was not seeing his girlfriend after he died and watching the suffering he caused his mother. A man committed suicide because he felt hopeless since he was not able to take care of his family. He felt they would be better off without him. He told me his Hell was watching his worst nightmare come true. His wife lost her home and he was seeing his family homeless. The humiliation, pain and suffering his family felt resonated throughout his soul. He eventually felt peace when his wife moved to Florida with distant family and found her way. Another soul joked with me, telling me he was in Hell. He had been a pastor and believed only other Baptist would surround him in Heaven, yet he now finds himself surrounded by Catholics, Jews, and Muslims all who had been just as narrow minded as he had been. Now, together they are realizing that they all love God. So what happens to those who are truly evil? After death they feel the pain and suffering they caused others on Earth, over and over again until they take responsibility for their mistakes. This is a long process. It is not until this realization happens that the soul can start over again. This is a beginning that is filled with pain and suffering – karma and retribution.
The Buddhist say, “Hell is the psychotic, the living in a world of such strong anxieties and fears that it causes a split with reality.” If that is true we all, at one time or another, have split from reality, so maybe we all have experienced Hell.
Read more about the soul’s journey in my book “A Second Chance To Say Goodbye”