Hell, The Devil & The Biggest Lie Ever Told

About this episode

Kari Bandle explores the origins of the concept of hell and the devil, revealing how they have been misinterpreted and used as tools of fear and control.

What if hell was never real — at least not the way you were taught? In this episode of Medium with a Mic, Kari traces the word "hell" back to its original Hebrew and Greek roots — Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus — and reveals that every single one of them meant something far less terrifying than eternal fire. The word hell as we know it was built on mistranslation, shaped by a medieval poem, and used for centuries as a tool of fear and control. But that's only half the story. Kari also examines who the devil and Satan actually were in ancient scripture — a Latin metaphor for a Babylonian king, a Hebrew title meaning "the accuser," a prosecutorial role operating with divine permission — and asks the question that changes everything: what if most of what we call evil is actually misinterpreted fear? Drawing on Jungian psychology, biblical scholarship, and her own years of experience as a psychic medium and intuitive empath, this episode dismantles the architecture of fear-based religion and replaces it with something far more empowering — understanding. Join your host Kari Bandle, the owner of Sacred Wisdom Studio. Kari leads the "Sacred Transitions" community and hosts the…

People in this episode

Host: Kari Bandle

Topics covered

• hell
• devil
• fear-based religion
• biblical scholarship
• Jungian psychology
• spiritual empowerment

Keywords

• hell
• Satan
• fear
• Jungian psychology
• biblical scholarship
• spirituality
• empowerment
• mistranslation
• Sheol
• Hades

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Medium with a Mic, Sacred Transitions, Sacred Wisdom Studio

Places: Babylon, Hebrew, Greek

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