I Met Alfred Nobel in Hell

Heaven or Hell for Alfred Nobel?

I once heard a joke about a pope and a lawyer arriving at the gates of heaven together. Saint Peter admitted both and assigned them accommodations. The lawyer got a luxury penthouse condo, while the pope was only put up in a shabby apartment. “Why?” the pope complained. “Look at it numerically,” Saint Peter answered, “we’ve got well over a hundred popes here, but this is our very first lawyer!”

Well, in fact popes are as rare in heaven as lawyers are. To aspire to the lofty post of pope, an ambitious priest must jack-boot over more than a few souls along the way up the ranks. Even a church-going lawyer must deal with lies routinely in his professional life. A word to the wise – Eternity does not take kindly to lies of even the little white sort. But success in the priesthood and at the bar are far from being the only occupations where afterlife difficulties arise from. I want to describe the enlightening astral traveling encounter I had with Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel of Nobel Prizes

I’m sure you’ve heard of Alfred Nobel. During his life, his major contributions to the world were high explosives and heavy armaments of war. He amassed a vast fortune but he wasn’t quite as successful at love. Alfred never married and left no heirs. Instead, he bequeathed a large part of his estate to the foundation of the famous ‘Nobel Prizes’.

I accidentally met Alfred’s deceased soul during one of my many astral adventures in Hell. I should note here that I’ve come to the strong belief that Hell does not exist for the purpose of punishment although experiences there can seem punishing. I see Hell as being a place of reconciling bad karma carried from life. Maybe reconcile is not the right word either, because nothing in the afterlife can mitigate that which was done in life. So Hell is a place where a soul has to fully understand the actions of the last life, before going on to a new rebirth and a second chance to make atonement.

Alfred Nobel Prize Predicament in Hell

Anyways, I conversed with the highly successful Alfred Nobel but he did not feel all that successful anymore. Since his death in 1896, he has been working hard at coming to terms with both his actions in life and the ramifications that have extended past the time of his death–even into today. Whereas most the other souls who died in the same era as he did have done their terms in Hell and moved on to fresh lives, Alfred is still stuck there and there is no end in sight to his abject failure in the afterlife. Why?

Alfred Nobel’s unending grief in the afterlife stems from the wrongful actions that the money in his legacy is still doing!

“But the Nobel Prizes are a good thing!” I envision a retort from you readers.

No. The Nobel Prizes are NOT good in eternity’s perspective. To start with, the bequest Nobel made was not altruistically motivated. The purpose was largely selfish instead. When Alfred’s brother died, a newspaper published an obituary for Alfred in error. The obituary read “the merchant of death is dead”. Alfred conceived the idea of the Nobel Prizes as a way to clean up his post-death public image. (Interestingly, I didn’t actually know that tidbit about the obituary before I met Alfred).

The Nobel Prizes themselves are not particularly humanitarian either. They don’t fund actual research and they are often given to reward advancements that are not in humanity’s overall best interests. I’m not going to list the many questionable decisions the Nobel committee has made but I will say that I did not make Alfred’s day when I told him that the latest ‘Peace Prize’ recipient was an American president who has actually been at war the whole time he has been in office. That ill-advised political move by the Nobel foundation’s directors is yet another dark smear on his soul, that Alfred Nobel must pay for in Hell.

Allow me to explain how the Nobel Prizes are a lose/lose situation for Alfred’s soul. A Nobel Prize for an advance in knowledge that actually does benefit mankind, is given after the fact. It is a cash gift and recognition. ‘Hey, You did it! Now go have a bottle or twenty of expensive liquor on Alfred Nobel’s dime.’ Alfred gets no soul brownie points for this because neither he, nor his money inspired or assisted in the good done. But on the reverse, like where Nobel money and recognition was given in a wrongful way, Alfred’s spirit shares responsibility.

For example, where the Peace Prize is given to a President who was at war at the time of the prize and who has remained at war since the prize, Alfred assumes partial culpability for all the wrongful harms and deaths in the wars that his foundation deemed worthy of a peace prize. The Nobel Prizes are prestigious and influential. Being rejected may have inspired the president to adopt more peaceful ways to be deserving of the next Peace Prize. (Yes, the Nobel foundation directors also share the fault and they will learn the error of their ways upon their deaths too.) But poor rich Alfred has no control anymore of the anchor tied to his soul’s ankle. Wouldn’t it suck to be Alfred Nobel?

I wonder how long Alfred will be dead ended in Hell but I can’t pity him. He knowingly made his bed in life and now he despairingly lays in it in eternity. But it is poignant to note here that the foundation Alfred set up to clean up his image has backfired horribly on his soul. Because his money is still being used to accrue even more sins and harms to his karma. He made too much money to spend in his lifetime, and now the excessive bank balance is paying him negative interest in his afterlife.

Time and time again on my astral travels, I’ve seen departed souls who lived their lives with absolutely no regard for what would come afterwards, and they pay the price for it because they DID know they were doing wrong because their consciences told them–and they ignored their inner voice. Humans do have consciences for a reason. And I can assure you that eternity does NOT accept the lies people tell themselves to self-justify the wrongdoing. The afterlife is truth. The whole, complete, literal and intrinsic truth that is not ever even found under oath in a court of law. But enough sermonizing. I’ll just leave off in saying my astral chat with Alfred Nobel was illuminating for me.

I toyed with the idea of an ‘afterlife banking’ arrangement where I would help people put excess funds towards actually bettering their afterlife experience. LOL. But it came off being interpreted as either a scam or a joke. I’ll still help if anyone wants, but a person can also do the same for themselves by astral traveling and coming to understand real truth first hand.

There is a whole nether world to astrally explore — In fact, there are several.

Alfred Nobel is Not the Only Notable Person I’ve Met in Hell