thanks to mistressxenobia for posting this:
“Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you, he said. They’re freeing your soul. So, if you’re frightened of dying and… and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. But if you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.”
— from “Jacob’s Ladder”
it’s weird, ever since i was very young and was questioning my “faith” (a few years before i saw this film) i had a feeling that the afterlife was actually like this. a one-size-fits-all sort of “reversible environment”. i even went around telling people the Good News. “we judge ourselves!”
now, of course, i’m a devout agnostic. but i think that IF there is an afterlife at all, which i doubt, then it will be very much like this.
