- Watch the movies: “Meet Joe Black,” “What Dreams May Come,” “Ghost,” “The Sixth Sense.”
Read the Wikipedia articles: “Afterlife”, “Death”, “Personifications of death”, “Image of Death”, “Angels of Death”, “Otherworld”, “Underworld”, “Elysium”, “The Last Supper” (painting by Salvador Dali).
But then, when I break it down for you, you’ll realize it’s all sacred language. This horned goat or goatess, it’s not so scary.
So don’t read further until you’ve watched all the movies, and until you’ve read all the Wikipedia articles I suggest above.
Conversation with the Mystic-Old-Man
Alexandr: Hello. I have a question. Is the underworld different from the realm of the dead?
Mystic-Old-Man: Yes, there are differences, there are.
Alexandr: And is the difference that the underworld is in the world of the living, while the realm of the dead is already on the other side, beyond?
Mystic-Old-Man: No, it is the junction of interaction. If we were to put it simply, it’s between spaces. If foam or some kind of suspension forms on the surface above, it’s a crude comparison, but in this case, it has a tendency to manifest on both sides of the space. That is, any space is not differentiated but structured due to these so-called structural processes occurring. They can be interpenetrating, mutually invisible, or mutually shaped under certain tendencies, but this tendency is what separates them due to structuration on a certain level.
Alexandr: But still, these two realms are kind of like one, but there is a division, right? Like this layer in between.
Mystic-Old-Man: And a significant one.