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Originally Posted by Lightful
As I said though earlier, my aim is to dismiss any kind of belief. You brought the pagan model, which probably has similitudes, but it's only one model out of many, and I wouldn't want to focus on only one model in favor of others, but simple get the essence of each model to see if a global Truth can be applied, here the existence of 2 realms, and only those 2 (which then could be subdivided into planes).
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You could look at the Two Truths Theory, Chinese Buddhism. Sometimes also called the Two Flower or Two Worlds theory.
The 2 Truths are
There is an ordinary, mundane world
There is a celestial, spiritual world
To this has been added a 3rd Truth
The 2 Truths are One Truth, IOW they are one and the same reality
In practice this means that the two worlds are simply different viewpoints of the same thing. No matter what happens, we can chose look at it from a worldly viewpoint or from a celestial one. Depending on that choice there may be a HUGE difference in how we handle what happens.
To know that the 2 worlds are really one world is taking the Middle Path.