Its very hot where I live this month. So, I started digging a pit house so I can have a decent place for an afternoon nap. So while I was doing this I got to thinking about 'Ghost Riders in the Sky', and about how nice and cool it is in my hole, while the sky is hot and brutal. Anyway I was thinking about conceptions of the afterlife from Christianity where a good afterlife is about and a bad one is below, and all of a sudden it seemed so very strange. Yet in Ghost Riders the devils afterlife which the cowpoke is frightened by is 'that range up in the sky, chasing the devil's herd across that endless sky'.

Does your branch of occult lore have anything to say about the, er uh, topography of afterlifes? Is the Christian bias quirky to itself, or it is part of a larger current?