Don’t worry–this one looks terrific. For one thing, this blog and the book Dancing Past the Dark are both listed among its resources!
From the Hellbound? website:
Does hell exist? If so, who ends up there, and why? Featuring an eclectic group of authors, theologians, pastors, social commentators and musicians, “Hellbound?” is a provocative, feature-length documentary that will ensure you never look at hell the same way again!
If you have any interest in the subject, I strongly suggest taking a look at the fascinating website, www.hellboundthemovie.com — and even if you have no interest in the subject or hate the very idea, I recommend taking a look at the website for its design and execution. It’s brilliantly done.
The film is being released now in a limited number of cities around the US and Canada. If you’re lucky, you can get to a showing. And if you’re super-lucky, it will be one at which writer/director Kevin Miller is doing a Q&A session.
According to Tom Sawyer, upon your death, you will feel within you the emotional and physical effect that your trangressions had on all other living things. If you punched somone in the face, you too will feel the physical and emotional effect of that blow.
This makes sense to me because each of us is a point of individual consciousness within the universal consciousness. When we rejoin the whole, we too will feel the effects of what we did to all other living things, be it good bad or indifferent.
Speaking for myself, I’m aware of what I’ve done now, while I’m still here, and I am so sorry. I know what I’ll be facing when I cross. To me, the blues is what I see when I turn and look behind me that I wish I’d never done, that I can never change.
Hell Fire and Damnation is a fabricated “club” used to beat masses of people into submission so they can be controlled. Those who use it to me, are the worst of the worst. I would hate to have to endure what they will have to experience when they cross.
Your take has lots of company. And not!
Go figure. The premiere was in Nashville, TN (my hometown), and living under a rock like I do, I didn’t know this and I missed it.
I’ve checked with the Belcourt theater and now it’s gone, gone, gone. Any chance of a DVD in the hear future?
I think this may be one of those “aaarrrggghhh” moments. No doubt DVD will come fairly quickly, as there are such limited showings. A DVD just misses the community feel and feedback. Sorry I didn’t know this sooner!
It might have a hard time competing with It’s A Wonderful Life, but hopefully the DVD will be out by Christmas. 🙂
Here’s hoping. And I just this instant heard from Kevin Miller that he’s adding the book to the Hellboundthemovie website’s resource list. Oh, hooray!
Every time I read stuff like this, along with all the dreck that comes afterwards, I can’t help but find my hands shaking. I’ve said once, I’ve cried a thousand times in my heart over it, I wish there was no RELIGION like we know it today.
My view is that the problem isn’t religion per se; it’s the people who do the interpreting. You can no doubt expect a post on this very soon. Thanks for the push!
It’s the character of the person who does the interpreting that conveys the meaning.
Although I’m not a “church” person, on occasion when I can’t escapinterprete attending, I’ve heard scripture presented with an intended feeling that allowed me to fully understand its true meaning.
A person with an axe to grind is a different matter.
My point exactly…though I’ll go on about it longer! Thanks, Dave. Well put.
Whatever our religion is or was, if any, is our spiritual childhood.
Try the hard journey to find God, Truth by yourself it may take your whole life but sooner or later you’ll become an spiritual adult, then you will see that religions are no longer your problem, religions still will be there, we canot change that, but you will be wisely above them, answer the call of God and do not worry about the childish problem of religions.
🙂 Thank you for this!
I was given AN answer, I was given experiences, I was allowed to draw my own conclusion and I was not told that I was right or wrong… but like many I came back thinking I had THE ANSWER and while I have tried to also explain that I really do not KNOW anything with certainty, I have been implying that I had THE ANSWER to others… my conclusion drawn from what I was told and experienced: the world is a shared game that we are all playing because we are immortal and there is ultimately nothing better to do with our time but interact in a semi-unpredictable world.
I do love this wording! Thank you.
nan…is it possible to get,near death experiences,on dvd….as i;m not much of a reader.i heard you and george discussing this topic on coast to coast,a week or so ago…thank you …tracy
Tracy, at the website of IANDS (the International Association for Near-Death Studies), you will find a ton of audio and DVD resources from conferences and other presentations. http://iands.org There is also a lot of material at YouTube. Any of the material, especially at YouTube, needs discernment–that is, you have to filter the opinions and interpretations through your own life experience and common sense and philosophy. Although a presenter’s views may be passionately held by that person, they may not fit with a view of the world that you consider reliable. It’s one of the difficult things about NDEs, trying to figure out what claims to accept and what to let go.
dancing past the dark…and,or,hellbound the movie..again,thanks.
After my hellish trip I came back understanding the Chuch teachings had misled me. Though I’d been there I knew it was not real, an illusion. That God had not created that state of being but mankind had and at the time I loved God/Jesus!
Now I do not know what to believe, but I do trust God.
I’ll be addressing this very soon. Please see my response to Philemon. Hang in! Thanks.
Hi Nancy,
I wanted to let you know I read your book over the summer and really enjoyed it. Thanks so much for writing it.
I’m looking forward to reading the upcoming post that you’ve talked about. The concepts of a wrathful God and an eternal hell are intolerable to me. I’ve tried to make myself accept them but I can’t do it and it has caused me to have to relate awkwardly with Christianity. It is hard to pray to a God that you don’t feel is even good, at least in any meaningful sense of the word. You know he knows you don’t like him, or are frightened of him, and don’t trust him, so why should he care about you? Somehow those he has predestined go about undisturbed by the fact that he consigns people to an eternal hell for something as unavoidable as being born into another religion. The most hard hearted even engaging in apologetics which claim that heaven is made more enjoyable by knowing there are people burning in hell.
It’s terrifying that such a god might exist and is actually believed to exist by millions and millions of people. I agree with the other poster who said they pray that religion isn’t real: such a possibility is a nightmare.
It’ll take me a couple more days to get the post up, but it’s coming. Stay with me! (Sorry for the delay. It’s life–an out of town family funeral, a granddaughter arrived to stay with us for an indefinite time, promises made to help with the upcoming election, a friend needing time–don’t they realize there are blog posts to write?)
In that case, take your time!
Again – thanks for your book.
Thanks!
I have to admit, after reading some of these I found it harder to relate to God, since it now seems that who has a bad or good afterlife experience is completely random.
I was also quite hurt by the topic of hell because of the Christian Union at my university trying to convert me after my (hindu) father died.
I am still struggling with these ideas, but I am slowly recoving thanks to my friends and the Methodist chaplain at the university I attend.
Ms. Bush, after all of your reasearch and your experience, how is it that you seem so happy when it seems that God cannot be trusted?