The Case Against Hell

What NDEs and Altered Consciousness States Reveal

This article draws on a multidisciplinary approach (spanning 20 years and counting) to the important eschatological question of whether something like a Biblical “hell” exists. It’s no overstatement to say the question “What happens when we die?” is relevant to everyone on earth. Here’s a tiny snapshot of the well over 250,000 written words I have relating to the subject… 🙃

Does Clinical Evidence Support Hell’s Existence?

The vast majority of clinical evidence (not to mention the data from countless mystics and occultists) indicates that there is no such thing as the Christian hell presided over by some sort of Satanic overlord.

Clinical hypnotherapist, counsellor and author, the late Michael Newton has regressed many hundreds of people over many years, leaving him convinced that the only real place where souls truly endure prolonged suffering is earth. His clients in deep trance (theta) states uniformly report that after death everyone goes to the “spirit world” and is received with patience and love.  

This finding of course demonstrates, at least in the mind of a hardcore fundamentalist (as opposed, perhaps, to a much more moderate or progressive Christian), just how successful “Satan’s” deceptive tactics actually are, which is nothing more than circular logic and question-begging.

Fallacious logic should be acknowledged for what it is.

In the occasional instances of a susceptible person in a traumatic situation who has the OBE and visions of being taken by frightening spectres into an afterlife of darkness where they were then sentenced in front of demonic judges, Newton suspects a strong preconditioned belief in hell. Most people, however, in the “quiet, relaxing state of hypnosis, with continuity on all mental levels,” describe an initial orientation session with their guides which prepares them to go before a review panel—typically of between three and seven members—of superior beings sometimes identified as “wise beings, directors and even judges,” but mostly referred to as a “Council of Masters or Elders.”

All of these “soul evaluation conferences” have the commonality that the life feedback analyses are based on the original intent behind our choices, as much as the actions undertaken; motivations are scrutinised and critiqued but not condemned, and never is any suffering intentionally inflicted.

Realms of Interiority

In occult terms, such aforementioned hellish scenarios are possible simply because of the highly subjective nature of the imaginal realms—“realms of interiority,” as I sometimes think of them—into which we pass upon death. The “realm” into which many human minds pass is otherwise known occultically as the astral plane, and it has a mirror-like quality that reflects the inner thoughts, fears and beliefs of one’s mind.

As afterlife explorer Bruce Moen emphasises, creation here is not limited to conscious mind alone: “subconscious expectations and fears can be projected into nonphysical reality as well, without our realising we’re doing it.”

You could unconsciously create a horrific monster or demon which could terrorise you by reflecting the image of your own fear back to you, to paraphrase Moen. If you fail to realise what’s happening and fall into thinking the creature is real, “all sorts of idiotic, unnecessary mischief is possible.” 

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To illustrate the point, Moen shares the story of a friend’s terminally ill father who would scream in terror all night long while asleep.