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What's up Acolytes? I received a reply to the "Eternal Suffering " video.
So I thought that I would record a response to the comment on that video.
I guess they may disagree with what I said. They told me that I should read "23 Minutes
in Hell" by Bill Weise. I've never heard of this book, so I did some
research. The title of the book already sounded like something that I would not want to read.
I Googled his website and saw that the book is $21.95. If you're interested in checking
it out, you get 2 books and a DVD movie. I am not going to pay money to support someone
who looks to be doing pretty well financially. He travels twice a month, all over the country,
to speak on his experience in hell. He had this experience in 1998, but the book
was not published until 2006. It comes in 8 different languages.
What I decided to do was look up Mr. Weise on YouTube so that I could listen to a 15
minute interview where he recalls his 23 minute experience in hell.
It sounds like I got to hear just about everything except for the 8 missing minutes of his "hell
experience."
If you're going to listen to a video that I post, and I say,"this is what this book
says, or this is what I read from this author," and you don't agree-- how do you know that
you don't agree if you have not read the book that I'm citing?
The difference is these guys are not describing a "non-biblical hell."This whole idea of a
fire and brimstone hell is not biblical, it does not exist at all in the Jewish Bible
(Old Testament). When the Jewish Testament refers to "hell"-- there isn't a hell, there
is "Sheol"-- it's the Underworld.
Sheol, the underworld, is a place where people, where the dead are like shadows. This also
lines up with something that John Chang of the Mopai school teaches, at least the way
Kosta presents it in his book, "The Magus of Java."
The dead are like shadows.
Both Daskalos and Kosta's account of John's stories say that people go to a dark place,
but it's all an illusion. So he (Bill Weise)is talking about his dream with beasts that are
1000 times as strong as a man-- How would you know? How do you know that these
demons are 1000 times stronger than a person?
Did you see a strongman contest between a demon and a human?
He talks about cat monsters and serpents--okay, how original, or how UNORIGINAL is that?
Ancient cultures, Egyptians for example, believed that cat-like creatures were the guardians
of the Underworld.
If you say anything about serpents or snakes to the average Evangelical Christian, they
will automatically assume something satanic. It's the farthest thing from the truth.
Yes, there is a serpent in the Genesis narrative, but the serpent symbolizes wisdom. If you
look around you-- hell, even the Pope carries a staff with him with a snake symbol, maybe
not the Pope, but patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church do.
Look at the symbol for medicine in the United States, it consists of 2 snakes wrapped around
a pole.
Even our genetic material--our DNA-- the structure is a double helix, 2 serpents intertwined.
So this whole fear of serpents-- he's just...
Basically this guy is doing the same thing that's been done over and over again for the
last 2 1/2 centuries-- and in America, people fall for it every time.
What is that?
Well, there is a sermon called "Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God" by John Edwards,
and it evokes images of the hand of God, holding a person dangling over the fiery pits of Hell.
Just waiting for the jaws of Hell to devour them if they do not turn and repent. So the
people want to be SAVED; they need to fall on their knees in front of the church at these
Great Awakenings because that was one of the messages of the Great Awakenings that occurred
in this country centuries ago.
That's what kicked off the whole Baptist movement in the 18th century--these fire and brimstone
sermons were scaring the hell out of people and they were running in droves to be baptized
and join church.
They wanted to be saved from the fiery jaws of Hell that their "Benevolent" God is dangling
them over. That does not sound too much like a benevolent,
all loving, all knowing, all powerful God to me.
A God that sends a guy to Hell for 23 Minutes and when he wakes up from his dream, or his
so-called "out of body experience" He is left screaming in the floor and about ready to
*** his pants.
How benevolent, and how loving is that God?Just so he (Bill Weise)can give his message to
people-- that Hell is real; it is Eternal; and Jesus, God, do not want you to go there--
but he sent ME (Bill Weise), and for the price of $21.95 you can get the full story right
here--and you can fly me out to your church where for a hefty sum, I will deliver my message
from God to you in person.
Because I KNOW he's not doing all of this travelling and speaking for free...and if
he is, then hell... I need to go write a book about some of my experiences so I can get
some of that money, too!
*cash register sound*
So Anyway, that's...this whole thing that he says, it lines up with, whether you agree
or not, it lines up with the books that I mentioned.
The difference is that both Daskalos and Pak John say that these are temporary states.
Weise says that it's eternal, but yet he only spent 23 minutes there...supposedly.
How can you know if it's Eternal if you only spent 23 minutes?
Second-- when a shadow, when a person dies and becomes a shadow of their living self,
they take their beliefs with them. If you believed in Islam when you were living, you
will believe in Islam when you are dead.
If you were a Christian when you were living, you will believe in Christianity when you
are dead. You take your memories with you--to a certain extent.
Whatever you are doing now, that's if all of this is true--what these people are teaching.
I should not say any of this with absolute certainty--this is what these guys teach--
they say that you take memories with you, and you know-- if you partake in a particular
spiritual or energetic/meditative practice to raise your energy, to alter your DNA--
to awaken kundalini
then maybe things might be different, but that's not something I'm ready to get into
yet.
Right now most of you watching probably came to hear about 23 Minutes in Hell and don't believe any of this *** anyway.