Hell is a psychological decent as Nancy E. Bush here explains:

A psychospiritual descent into hell has been the experience of saints and sages throughout history, and it is an inevitable episode in the pervasive, mythic theme of the hero's journey. Those who insist on finding the gift, the blessing of their experiences have the potential ultimately to realize a greater maturity and wholeness.

   This was also what Jayne said in Chapter Five, where we could learn from her testimony that:

There is no such thing as an angry God. The God force or power that I felt was totally forgiving of any so-called error. In my wildest dreams I cannot conceive of God being interested in punishing. God is interested in bringing us to ‘him’ – to love.

   God is love and returning to love is not a punishment. This is the great insight from the Near Death Experience that the thought of fearing Gods anger or hell is false consciousness. While we can fear the disconnection from God or the sheer power of leaving the body and entering the Light, we should not look upon the reunion with God through fear. It is a gift to be reunited with God.

   NDE Researcher, Dr. Barbara Rommer explains that even though people who have distressing NDEs have to struggle through the emotional aftermath of their experience, still they almost always eventually come to see their experience as a “blessing in disguise.”

   Even NDEr Dannion Brinckley, who as a soldier had killed people and had to experience the painful consequences of his actions in his life-review tells us that, “I had felt the pain and anguish of reflection, but from that I had gained the knowledge that I could use to correct my life.”

   This knowledge gained by which we can correct our lives in also something we find in the Sufi tradition. Here the great Sufi poet Rumi tells us the same that hell is the pain of looking within but that it is the pain that saves us: “If he could see his nothingness and his deadly, festering wound, pain would arise from looking within, and that pain would save him.”

   And Atwater confirms that, although it is a surprise, hellish experiences can indeed be a positive experience: “unpleasant or hell-like experiences really can be quite positive if individual experiencers are inspired to make significant changes in their lives because of them.”