Kim - No, hell is full of tortured minds, that's all! Hell can be in the trim and tidy house next door, at the workplace, in the alleyway, in a jail, on a battlefield, in a classroom, and yes, in certain spiritual dimensions usually termed as "the Astral Worlds" in the traditions I am most familiar with. The Astral Worlds, by the way, run the gamut...from the heavenly to the etherial to the mundane to the gloomy to the absolutely hellish...just the way physical life does! They're not physical, that's all. They are mental. They are realms of thought, and when minds leave the physical body (or extend themselves from it a certain amount, as in dreaming) they can have experiences in the Astral Worlds. I had such a dream last night, and it was quite spooky in parts...very intriguing. I seem to have fairly good protection when I'm in the nastier places, fortunately.

The primary ingredient of hell is Fear, coupled with a sense of extreme limitation.

As long as the mind considers itself to be the ultimate intelligence, and the one and only king of its reality, and alone and vulnerable at the same time...then it is in a hell of its own making.

It's kind of like one cell in an elephant being completely unaware that it's harmoniously united with the whole rest of the elephant at all times. Given free will in such a circumstance, that cell may in fear begin behaving like a cancer cell, in order to supposedly protect itself. This makes it dangerous to itself and possibly the whole rest of the elephant...on a physical level, at any rate.

GUEST - Sounds like you're focusing mainly on physical outward beauty as seen by the eye, which is generally described as "skin deep". I'd say that joy and love are beautiful feelings or states of mind...but you can't exactly see them...or can you? Well, you can see the effect they have on a person, that's for sure.

Honesty is a beautiful characteristic. Dishonesty is an ugly one.

And so it goes.

- LH