In
this recent blogpost I wrote about spiritualist and lawyer
Victor Zammit's idea that earth has the lowest vibrations of all realms, thoughts which he probably got from spirits which communicated and materialized through the medium
David Thompson, such a wonderful and unique idea it is, quite unheard of in spiritual literature.
You maybe thought that I had come up with the idea myself, just forged it. Because it sounded too good to be true. I did not quote any texts then. But if you like, I can quote a text by Zammit about it. Here it is, found on
this page (scroll down to the texts under
June 23rd 2006, below the headline WHERE IS HEAVEN?):
"For those who accept the afterlife: I am often asked where is heaven. That’s easy to answer. Understand first that the afterlife is about realms of vibrations, ascending in the speed of vibrations from the lowest to the highest.
Earth’s vibrations would be regarded as the lowest vibrations. Then there is the next realm – an afterlife dark realm – at the lower end - is vibrating faster than on earth, but the conditions are horrible. The Third Realm is the Realm of the Light: vibrating faster than the second realm. We are told that the Third Realm is the Realm of the Light, where conditions are hugely superior to those on earth. For good average decent folk, on crossing over, are very likely to end up in the Third Realm. There is the Fourth to the Seventh Realm, the higher realms vibrating at higher speeds. All these realms, we are informed by some of the most highly credible sources such as Hugh Benson, Silver Birch, White E. and others are superimposing on each other from the lowest to the highest. Anything from the upper Third Realm would be regarded as ‘heaven.’ So that on crossing over there was no need for Jesus to ascend into heaven when heaven already exists inside the area covered by the vibrations of earth."
Yes. Here it is. And it sounds almost too good to be true. All want a hell for the criminals which is a worse life than normal life on this earth (like life in a prison). But according to Zammit and his materialized spirits, the afterlife will be a better life for all beings, a higher vibration than here on earth ("vibration" in Zammits language means about the same as spirituality, the higher the vibration, the higher and purer the spirituality), a lighter, more spiritual life for all beings
. There is no hell in the Dantean sense, only different levels of heaven. And there are countless levels. The lowest levels seem like hell to those in the highest levels. But hell is a bad word to describe the lowest realms in the Spirit World, because they do not suffer there, like on earth. They are there with likeminded people, and just like criminals in Hells Angels can enjoy each other's company, and be loyal to each other, thus making progress together, so it is also in the spirit "hells".
The spirit seer
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) and the spiritualist philosopher
Arthur Findlay (1883-1964) are very careful to point out that we continue with our earthly life in the spirit world, with the same habits and with about the same circumstances, only more spiritual. "Evil" people do not begin to suffer suddenly, as if they get some revenge from God, they do not transform to monstrous demons in a Dantean hell, they live the same life as they lived on earth, only with better circumstances, where they can learn better and more efficiently.
This resonates well with all I know, it resonates also with Swedenborg, who saw a "hell" in his visions
which was not the Dantean hell where demons tortured the damned, but a "hell" which the "evil" ones were drawn to, by their own will, it was where they thrived best, a "civilized" society, or countless societies, an underground gigantic metropole with universities and all kinds of science and technology and industries. This resonates well with our knowledge of aliens, "extraterrestials", which probably are demons,
who abduct people in order to do scientific experiments on them. The aliens do not seem to suffer, as neither do earthly scientists. The existence of aliens do not resonate well with the Dantean hell. Demons are not supposed to be "civilized" in the Dantean hell, there they are monsters. The thinking that evil people remind more of animals than of civilized evil kings and caesars, is medieval fantasy, and has crept into Swedenborg's visions, too. But not completely.
I think people who use cold empirical science alone to gain knowledge, and not so much their intuition, and do not develope their spiritual thinking and spiritual judgment, will find themselves quite at home among "extraterrestials" in the afterlife. It will be like a technoparadise to them, and they will be enthralled with it. Slowly they will, then, make progress intellectually through science, into more and more humanistic science (the humanities among the scientific disciplines), and through the humanities, to theology, and from theology to spirituality and God and Nature/Reality.
Zammit says that the hell of his spirit world can be horrrible. Yes, life on this earth is also horrible, very horrible. We have to endure so much, so much. So if it is a somewhat better world which the criminals come to after death (this world of the criminals seems, according to Zammit, to be in the middle between this world and the third realm, vibrationally speaking, and the third realm, "to which most decent people come", is exceedingly beautiful and wonderful), where they can more easily make progress spiritually, it is logical to say that it is a horrible world, seen from the perspective of the highest heavens, so many levels there exist, and earth is then a very horrible world (just think about all the sicknesses we can get, in the spiritual world they do not need to worry about sicknesses, not even in "hell").
I have not read many reports about a Dantean hell from the afterlife. Mrs. Mary Baxter's hellish lucid dreams are the closest we get there. But it is so apparent that these experiences were lucid dreams, because Jesus was very immoral in those experiences, and Baxter was not very fond of him.