Welcome to our paranormal afterlife.

This is episode 224 of paranormal stories.

In this episode, I'm reading from Brendan Murphy's book, Reverse Engineering the Afterlife.

When I've guests on my podcasts, I read their books to work out questions for the episodes.

And when reading these books, I always find such amazing information that never makes it into the podcast.

And here, I get a chance to give you a peek into the book.

I've put a link to the book in the show notes, and I did seek permission to record this

extract and the author kindly said yes.

So I'm going to start with an extract titled The Afterlife is Not a Place.

Since the afterlife is mind dependent, we find ourselves in a place, state of consciousness,

that corresponds with our deepest emotions, desires, intentions and beliefs.

Thus, since most people are not particularly evil, malicious or hate-filled,

they experience death in a relatively positive way, a manner reflective

of their beingness at the time. The truly diabolical soul may well be found in a very

personalized state of self-created torment, or a dreamscape community of other malicious souls.

The Sia, Swedenborg, accurately explain that hell must be understood as a mental condition

of confused and self-tormenting spirits.

Later, Ledbetter correctly affirmed,

Hell is only a figment of the theological imagination,

but a man who lives foolishly may make for himself a very unpleasant and long-enduring purgatory. Even the authors of the Jesuit journal

Civilita Catalica could grasp hell is not a place but a condition. As theological compiler Arthur Powell explained,

gradually the coarse and dense outermost shell of the astral plasma body disintegrates,

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