"What are heaven and hell? Well, I think that Europeans and their offspring got most of their concepts from Dante," Joe wrote above.

Right. And another source to be mentioned is the C18 Swedish scientist & occasional mystic Swedenborg, who published a book called Heaven & Hell. It's not easy reading ~~ in my literarily conscientious youth I found a Penguin edition, which I still have somewhere I think, and did my best to read it, tho much of it was pretty heavy going. I simply mention it here as a reference for any who want to follow up the topic. There are good Wikipedia entries on the author & his book.

HTH

~M~