A Seek Reality Online member asked this question. “What about near-death experiencers who say they felt they were in Hell?” In this video, Dr. R. Craig Hogan explains why we know the negative near-death experiences are not indications there is a Hell in the afterlife. A transcript follows the video controls.
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Transcript of the "Is There a Hell?" Video
Virtually all NDEs have no experience of discord or negativity. A small number, estimated at 5%, describe a variety of negative experiences: hands wrestling with them, deep darkness, malevolent figures, and other such experiences. Most importantly, those few are inconsistent. They don’t describe a place or consistent entities or events. You must understand that the near-death experience is only near death. The person is alive and in trauma. Emergency and medical personnel are manhandling them, shocking their bodies, plunging needles into them, and doing all manner of things to their bodies. That is the source of the bad dream the person is having.
The other 95% all have wonderful, uplifting encounters with a being with unconditional love, communication with their loved ones who are in the afterlife, visions of their upcoming life, and other wonderful experiences. Their senses are heightened, and they come away with vivid memories of the events. The 95% of near-death experiences are consistent in their content. The 5% of negative experiences are inconsistent, and very few have visions of what could be characterized as a Hell. They are like bad dreams.
But beyond that, we have many hundreds of thousands of communications from people who have gone the rest of the way and are in the afterlife. Their testimonies are that there is no such place as hell. It simply doesn’t exist. And the source of the mythology for most in the West is the Christian Church. But the earliest documents that were closest to Jesus have nothing about a hell in them.
For more proof there is no such place as Hell, watch the YouTube at https://youtu.be/rVsCQiVe_Yk.