Maps and journeys - Kathleen lecture notes

I thought this lessons provided some interesting discussion of the topics of work Kathleen showed us, the main thing that stood out to me was that the creation of what ever we make in this project is also a journey. This made me think that not only could we document the process of us making the project but we could also ask people how the experience what we created took them on a journey in some kind of side in an additional side video about the project. 


In a group discussion about our project she recommended some artist for me to look at that might be useful to our project, the most interesting one i found was Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg - He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell. In this book he  writes a detailed description of the afterlife, how people live after the death of the physical body. It is mainly baised around the fact that in this world, one thing is certain - we all shall die. Swedenborg wrote about Heaven and Hell based on what he said was revelation from God.

I think his views on angles will me most useful to my project as we are looking at the afterlife. 

Swedenborg details a life after death that consists of real experiences in a world in many basic ways quite similar to the natural world. According to Swedenborg, angels in heaven do not have an ethereal or ephemeral existence but enjoy an active life of service to others. They sleep and wake, love, breathe, eat, talk, read, work, play, and worship. They live a genuine life in a real spiritual body and world. Their environment spiritually reflects, and thus "corresponds" to, the mental state of the angel and changes as the angel's state changes. Every angel or devil began life as an inhabitant of the human race. Children who die go directly to heaven, where they are raised by angel mothers. After we die, we wake up in the intermediate region of the spiritual world, neither in Heaven nor Hell, but in a neutral "no man's land" that Swedenborg terms the "World of Spirits." Here we gradually lose the ability to pretend and the spiritual “real us” comes out. new spirit goes on to Heaven or Hell of his or her own free will. God does not force them.new spirit goes on to Heaven or Hell of his or her own free will. God does not force them.Anyone can enter heaven. However as soon as an evil person inhales the air there they have excruciating torment so they quickly shun it and escape to a state/place in keeping with their true state.


I think the fact he says that a person can choose wither they go to hell or heaven or stay in the spiritual world  is an interesting topic and we could incorporate this into our idea some how by maybe letting the viewer choose what kind of experience they go on.