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Originally Posted by Untersberg56
I think we may take it therefore that most souls proceed at death either directly to the heavenly realm, or to purgatory, or to the realm of the prince of darkness if they have worshipped him while on Earth.
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What we may take from that is that people's mystical experiences are culturally embedded, and don't really say much about life after death or where we go. It offers very little to humanity as a whole beyond the interests of psychologists or those studying the variety of religious experience. These experiences are interesting for the person involved and say something about his/her life, fears and wishes, in a similar way dreams do.
If you broaden your horizon a bit you'll find that people of different cultures and religions see/hear/feel different deities, spiritual 'truths' and concepts, and they also seemingly 'justify' and 'support' what they happen to believe in, or are attracted towards. The next step is to find others who believe the same and collect scripture to further validate the belief and build the foundation.
All in all useful to an individual ((for a certain time..)) but doesn't tell us anything about what will really happen or how the universe works.