Mysterious Universe

Perfect conclusion! Btw, what’s the name of that ill ass song at the end of the show?

Just
finished listening to your discussion of Barry Eaton’s presentation,
particularly your insistence that there MUST be some kind of hell. I very
strongly disagree and here’s why.

First a detour about God. I think that God utterly beyond human comprehension,
and even this label ‘God’ is just a linguistic device that allows us to talk
about that which created the universe and indeed all existence. This ‘God’ has
always existed and stands outside of time, space, and every other human
construct. Okay, back to my main point.

Since the world is rational, that is
explicable in terms of science, then the only God I could imagine would have to
be hyper-rational  and such a God would have no need for a ‘place’ or
condition such as hell. The idea is so preposterously absurd that it cannot be
of God.

If I think of the universe, I just
can’t conceive of how massive, varied, and mysterious it is. Thus, if one
admits to the existence of a God, this God would have to be greater that Its
creation, and so why would such a God have a need to punish and damn little
creatures like us, for our petty little sins? It just doesn’t make sense.

On the podcast you referenced the maniac
in Norway and asked how does he pay for that? I say that this idea that he must
pay is a very human impulse that stems from our own self-righteous needs and
our insecurities.

I agree to a point in Mr Eaton’s
description of the after-life, particularly what happens to those so-called ‘bad
people’, but I think, based on your explanation, that he is casting it the best
possible (New Age) light when actually the process be more complex.

Consistent with Mr Eaton’s suggestion
that every thought and action are stored, I believe that upon passing to the
next life or world that we are shown both our life and our potential (what are
life could have been) with a large disparity between the two being our idea of hell. Ultimately
the souls of those individuals who killed, whether it be 90, 6 million, or many
more, will be healed; how long that healing takes would be proportionate to the
severity of one’s crimes and bad deeds.

In our current human state, we
have the ability to believe and/or justify all sorts of heinous nonsense, but I
believe that during process of viewing past deeds, this ‘ability’ is stripped
away, making it utterly impossible to hide behind self-serving, delusional justifications.
Thus, the weight of one’s past deeds will feel significant indeed and so this
healing process that Mr Eaton noted may take many millennia in our terms.

I don’t believe in reincarnation and
here is why. In the conventional view of reincarnation, the reasons for
retuning are given as ‘to learn some lesson’. If that is the case, then how is
it just that one returns with no memory of those past bad deeds? Furthermore,
if an excess of bad karma on the karma balance sheet leads one to be reborn in
a lower state, how does this help one learn? Returning as a cockroach with no
idea as to why one is a cockroach would seem to teach nothing.

Having said that, I don’t want to
reject outright the testimony of those people who claim to have experienced ‘past
lives’, I just believe they are experiencing the events of another person’s
life. The reason for this, I don’t know. Perhaps there is a lesson there.
Perhaps the process is similar to leaving the body during the dream state.

Anyway, a discussion for another time.  I believe that the staging area that Mr Eaton
posited is there to prepare ‘souls’ for what is next, but that this next life
is neither physical nor does it happen on earth. I also agree that while in
this staging area one can create one’s own reality, including the reality of ‘hell’
when one realizes the depth of their error. So, murderers and the like are not ‘getting
off easy’, but they are also not being punished in conventional and very
limited human terms.