ARE THERE BAD SPIRITS?

What happens to the spirits of bad people who commit crimes against innocent people after their physical bodies die...such as murderers?

Contributed by Craig Hamilton-Parker

I have answered this question and gone into detail about evil and bad spirits in my book What to do when you are dead. Here is a short extract that addresses part of this question:

Hell, like heaven, has many different planes. In fact, it is not really somewhere separate to heaven. There is no demarcation between heaven and hell--they are degrees of the same one reality. The degree of hell-like quality is determined by the person's own nature.

People who are overtly wicked may immediately find themselves in a terrible place. It may not be a place where devils poke you with tridents, but it may feel much the same. For example, a corrupt doctor from the German death camps of WWII may find himself experiencing the same horrors that were inflicted on his victims on earth. The afterworld of such souls will be like a nightmare that has become reality. But far worse that this, will be the realization of what they have done. The angelic beings will present the culprit to their victims, who were made to suffer. They will feel every drop of pain that was inflicted upon their victims--from both the spirit worlds and from those still alive on earth. And this will not be a momentary experience but one which will afflict them until such time as they want to reform themselves.

On physical death, we go to the highest sphere accommodated by the vibrations we accumulated throughout our lifetimes on earth. Most people will go to either one of the higher spheres, too beautiful to imagine, or experience worlds almost the same as the earth plane. Once there, however, we all have to come to terms with the negative sides of our own natures. None of us is all good or all bad. Like the planes of heaven itself, there is no clear demarcation. We are all a mixture of good and bad qualities.

Your bad qualities will, at times, cause you to experience personal hells, generating scenarios in which you are able to consider issues in your life. For example, suppose you went through a divorce, with all of its hurtful aggression and legalized nastiness. Suddenly, you experience details of it again, but from the perspective of your ex-partner. Similarly, if you've willingly done things to hurt another, you may find your roles now reversed. The afterlife is a bit like virtual dreaming, which the soul can use to generate scenarios designed to enlighten. These dreams may be "good" or "bad" but this is not about reward and punishment. It's part of the road to be travelled to attain spiritual reform and growth.

The afterlife planes are a continuation of the process of the life review, except now they are played out like a cosmic play. The good and bad deeds done on earth set the themes. Fortunately, there is always a happy ending to the cosmic play, for every sentient being will eventually know the bliss of the infinite even though, for some, this may take the work of many earth lives and extended periods spent in study and contemplation on different levels of the afterlife worlds.

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