Hell Isn’t Real & Brules

I was reading “The Code of the Extraordinary Mind” by Vishen Lakhiani and came across the phrase that hell isn’t real. Vishen had been talking about brules a word he coined that meant bull shit rules. These are things we are brought up believing as fact. Some how when I pulled away from the church and quit believing that Christianity wasn’t the answer to all of our problems, hell stayed lodged as a concept for me.

I believe in reincarnation so I suppose I believe in a waiting room type place that I equate to heaven where souls wait to find their next endeavor, it’s not hell, it’s closer to heaven, but it isn’t the end.

I’d never thought of the option to not believe in something I grew up believe because even hell seems like a non-religious concept to me. I see it conveyed in movies and media frequently.

When Vishen said that a brule could be that hell wasn’t real as an example, I was floored that I’d never come up with that on my own, yet it is precisely what I believe. I don’t believe in hell. I believe in happiness, positivity, forgiveness, growing and learning from your mistakes, but hell, no, I don’t believe in hell. Although that almost seems akin to not believing in prison. Because prison does seem like a hell on earth a bit.

It was amazing to me that it took reading a book to discover something about myself so deep as a religious concept that was implanted from a young age. I no longer believed that most people went to hell, but for some reason it was still there as an option, a scare…