MM#23:

How Can Hell Be Holy?

First things, first, I don’t worship hell by any means.

So this is a wild question, I know. Actually, I am not sure many would have ever asked this question in quite this way, or pondered this idea just as I am about to. Not to say I’m special in that sense. Just my viewpoint.

But honestly? Who the hell would even begin to apply the word “holy” to hell?

I would. That’s who. Again, not because I’m some fan of hell or anything. Nothing like that. If you believe that, I need to insert a ‘facepalm’ emoji. Please, keep reading. You’ll see what I’m getting at.

No, I’m trying to help. I’m trying to show anew. I’m trying to heal the idea of hell altogether, so that we can all move past it altogether. Hell is no fun.

First let me set up some definitions.

What Is Holy?

The concept of ‘holiness’ is not as straightforward as it may appear to be. There are many ideas of what it is to be holy (or not).

Some older ideas of holiness likely have to do with adhering to religious scriptures and teachings of ministers, that sort of thing. Where you were considered holy only if you followed the rules.

However, I’d like to cast aside that archaic notion that humankind can determine what is holy and what is not.

So cast out all definitions and allow that everything is holy. That holy is to be ‘of God.’ And since there is nothing outside of God and God is all things, then everything must be holy.

How could it be otherwise? God created all we see and experience. God IS all we see and experience. So everything must be holy to God, or God would not have made it so. Why would God create what God did not prefer?

Everything is holy because it exists. Because God made it. Because God continues to create it and flow energy and life to it each and every moment for eternity.

So…

What Is Hell?

How the hell should I know? I’ve never been there.

Actually, I’m just kidding. In a sense, I have been to hell. But not the hell of eternal fire and damnation you may call to mind. No. At least, unless it were a past life experience and then I don’t remember it.

But I have been to my own, self-made hell. In fact, I believe that many, even most people have. That is what I believe hell is truly. A self-made place.

What the heavens? Why on Earth would anyone want to create their own hell? (I’m enjoying the play on words here, you can see.)

It’s not that anyone wants to create hell for themselves. But they do it just the same. Unintentionally. And vibrationally. Through their attention to certain thoughts and beliefs. Or their inattention to other, “better” ones that would “save” them or give them more positive experiences.

Hell Is a Vibration

We vibrate out and what we experience is our vibration coming back to us. We may or may not allow others to affect our vibration with theirs. But anything going on in our life is an outward from of the vibration of what we are thinking, feeling, and doing.

We are in a sense a feedback loop of ourselves and those we are aware of. This is why we are so complex. We read so much information around us and try to recreate an idea of familiarity. So we replay and loop back the same experiences. We create through our vibration by attention to it, whatever it is that we are creating.

Hell can be made by the one who worries; the one who fears; the one who is anxious; the one who is angry; the one who is depressed. By constantly putting time and attention into problems in life, we create more problems. It’s law of attraction. Energy flows where attention goes.

So many people create hellish outcomes in life simply by putting too much thought and attention into negative things.

Well, you may say that negative things are happening outside of you. How could you not focus on them? You have no power over it.

See, that’s the whole problem. That’s why people often feel stuck in hell, as if there is no way out. It becomes a repeating pattern. Think negative, have negative experiences, witness these negative things around you and respond negatively to them, and repeat. On and on.

No wonder hell is considered an eternal place. It’s a hard cycle to break. But it is possible.

How Holy You Make Hell

Start with this.

First of all, cast out the notion that there is a literal hell and that some satan figure, opposed to God, reigns over some tortuous soul prison in the underworld and that you might end up there due to your transgressions in life.

Then replace this fearful hell with the concept that even hell is holy. Again, holiness being of God and since everything is of God and nothing is outside God, then even hell is of God.

Not that God created a fiery pit. Remember step one. There’s no such place. God did not create a tortuous prison.

But God did create free will. And with it many people have chosen, through their own free will, to focus negatively long enough and hard enough that they have manifested hellish experiences in their lives.

And then they have passed on these practices and told their stories of hell to those around them. Not trying to cause harm. Trying to find familiar ground. Misery loves company only so it’s not alone.

So bless it. Bless hell. Those hard times. Yes, see even those tough moments as holy. See them as aspects of God. Parts of the experience of allness that God has created and allowed. With enough focus, you might even see the silver lining, a blessing in disguise.

All up to you. Create the good times or the hard times. By your choice and participation. By your continued focus on one or the other.

So then if you wish to escape hell, do so.

Begin now. With your thoughts and attention. Begin even as small as you need. Begin with the idea that hell cannot hold you. That hell is holy and of God. That the challenges are lessons for your own growth and that when you begin to come out of it, when you find yourself on the other side, exiting “hell,” you see a world even bigger and brighter and better than ever before. Because you have already lived this hardest contrast of the hell you created yourself, by your very attention to it.

On the other side of the darkness is the dawn. The night’s most fearful scares become the light’s most glorious boons. You will live such a fullness from your lessons in hell.

So even hell is holy. Do not condemn it. Bless it. And thereby heal it.

 

Thank you for reading. Leave comments and share if you learned something from this post.

 

Many blessings to all,

Matthew