Hee hee hee....
Ok, so it's been way to long since I've written on here. The past two weeks since my last blog post have been really busy with classes coming to an end, and having final assignments and papers to write. Perhaps it is rather fitting that this post is titled "Hell..."!!
The real reason I chose this title is because of a great quote I found several days ago. While I was doing research for my paper on James Joyce's Ulysses (for my British-Irish studies class) I came across a book of mythologist Joseph Campbell's writings on the works of James Joyce. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) wrote extensively on comparative mythology and religion, and since I was researching religious motifs in Ulysses (of which there are no shortage) his book was very helpful. Anyways, while scouring through the book to find info relevant to my paper, I also found this really fascinating quote about hell:
"Hell is the state of a soul that is absolutely committed to its earthly experiences, fixed (as it were) in their time-space aspects, without recognizing through these experiences the radiance of the divine dimension. Hell is simply the experience of your limitations, to which you are so firmly committed that nothing can break them. No one can show you the divine dimension of life that transcends your experiences"
